Nintendo has announced its plans for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025. While the Mario company will not offer a discount on Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, it will drop prices on a handful of first-party original Switch games and Switch 2 memory cards. Specifically, you’ll be able to buy games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Luigi’s Mansion 3 for $29.99, and get a $20 discount on a 256GB microSD Express card. Those deals represent about as much as Nintendo ever knocks off of prices these days.
Nintendo’s Black Friday 2025 Plans
Nintendo’s Black Friday game sale runs November 23 – 29. Here’s the full list of games we know for sure are getting the $29.99 sale price:
Nintendo Switch SportsSuper Mario OdysseyPaper Mario: The Thousand Year Door RemakeSplatoon 3Princess Peach: ShowtimeDonkey Kong Country Returns HDThe Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomLuigi’s Mansion 3Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe
The sale on these titles will be available at the digital Nintendo eShop, as well as on digital and physical copies at participating retailers. These kinds of deals generally happen at places like Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, and Walmart, to name a few.
Nintendo’s Cyber Monday 2025 Plans
If you buy any games digitally, it’s likely that you’ll run out of on-board storage on your Nintendo Switch 2 at some point. To add more storage, you’ll need to buy a microSD Express card. These are different from the standard microSD cards the original Switch uses. In fact, hardly any devices at all required microSD Express cards until the Switch 2 came out, meaning nearly everyone who wants to upgrade their Switch 2 storage will need to buy a new card. So it’s nice to see an offical Nintendo-branded one get a Cyber Monday discount.
What About Switch 2 Console Deals?
One notable omission from this announcement is the lack of a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Nintendo Switch bundle. For most of the Switch 1’s life cycle, you could bet your entire fortune Nintendo would offer that same Black Friday bundle deal, and you would’ve been right. But now that the Switch 2 is available, those halcyon days are over. And, unfortunately, no Switch 2 bundle appears to be taking its place this year.
That said, while Nintendo isn’t offering any console discounts of its own, it’s possible some other retailer could offer a Switch 2 deal. Since Switch 2 stock shortages ended back in July, there ought to be plenty of hardware to go around this holiday shopping season.
For more help planning your holiday gaming purchases, check out what Black Friday deals we expect from PlayStation and Xbox.
Chris Reed is a commerce editor and deals expert for IGN. He also runs IGN’s board game and LEGO coverage. You can follow him on Bluesky.
