Nintendo keeps piling onto its 2026 summer sale, and the selection has grown well beyond the usual eShop clearance fodder. Games like Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Mario Tennis Fever are sitting at all-time low prices, and the hardware deals are just as compelling.
Here's the lowdown: several of these deals carried over from Amazon Prime Day but no longer require a Prime membership to access. That's a meaningful change, especially for anyone who held off last week specifically because of that paywall.
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The Breath of the Wild combo that beats the bundle price
The single sharpest deal in this entire sale is one you have to assemble yourself. Physical copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Switch are down to $35.99 at Woot. The Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack is separately discounted to $6.99 at Amazon. Buy both, and you're playing the Switch 2 version of BOTW for $43 total.
That's $6 cheaper than buying the Switch 2 Edition outright at its current sale price, and $27 off the $70 standard list price. BOTW rarely drops below $40 in any form, so this combination is genuinely unusual. One more thing worth knowing: if you have Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, the Switch 2 upgrade costs you nothing extra on top of the base game purchase. At $35.99, it's a deal regardless of which route you take.
Storage is no longer a luxury purchase
The officially licensed Samsung 256GB microSD Express Card for Switch 2 is down to $39 at both Amazon and Walmart, a 34% cut from its $59 list price. That's actually $0.99 cheaper than the Prime Day price, which makes this the best the card has ever been.
This matters more than it might seem. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade on Switch 2 eats 90-100GB by itself. Split Fiction needs 70GB, Cyberpunk 2077 takes 60GB, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment requires 44GB. The Switch 2's internal storage gets uncomfortable fast if you're building a serious library, and this card is the practical fix.
The Switch 2 bundle with a ticking clock attached
The Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle is $499.99 at Amazon, bundling the console with a digital copy of either Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, or Pokemon Pokopia. Nintendo has a $50 price increase planned for September, so buying now effectively locks in around $80 in combined value when you factor in the bundled game.
Mario Kart World retails for $79.99 on its own, making it the highest-value pick of the three included options. The other two are $69.99 each. If you want a head start on any of them, the Pokemon Pokopia best items guide is worth a read before you start spending your in-game currency.
The Switch 2 is also the first Nintendo system in a long time capable of running major third-party titles without significant technical downgrades. Cyberpunk 2077, Star Wars Outlaws, and Resident Evil Requiem all run on it in recognizable form. That's a meaningful shift for a Nintendo console.
Metroid Prime 4 and the eShop highlights
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is $44.99 at Amazon right now, down 36% from $69.99. The Prime Day deal was better (the Switch version hit $29.99), but this is the best currently available price and it's open to everyone, no Prime membership needed.
The eShop side of the sale has its own standouts worth flagging:
The Mario + Rabbids and Unicorn Overlord discounts are the most aggressive in the bunch. Both are well past their launch windows, but 70-75% off is a hard number to argue with.
Preorders are also discounted right now
Most upcoming Switch 2 physical game preorders are $10 off at Amazon. That covers Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Splatoon Raiders, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, and Orbitals. You won't be charged until the game ships, so locking in the lower price now carries no real risk.
This discount matters more given Nintendo's recent move to price physical Switch 2 games $10 higher than their digital equivalents. The preorder discount partially offsets that gap, bringing physical copies back in line with what digital buyers pay.
For players juggling multiple Nintendo games at once, it's also worth bookmarking the NBA 2K26 locker codes guide and other free reward trackers over at our gaming guides hub to stretch your budget across platforms while the summer sale runs its course. Nintendo hasn't announced an end date for the sale, so prices could shift at any point.
