Nintendo Black Friday 2026: $499.99 Switch 2 bundle and $20 off games

Nintendo's Black Friday 2026 deals start on Sunday, November 22, 2026. From that day through December 5, 2026, the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle sells for $499.99, $50 under its $549.99 suggested price, and from November 22 through November 29 seven physical Switch 2 and Switch games are $20 off at Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart and Nintendo's two US stores. A separate sale on digital games opens earlier, on November 19, and runs through December 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Nintendo of America announced the plan on November 12, 2026. Black Friday itself falls on November 27, 2026.

That is a change from what Nintendo was offering a day earlier: as we wrote in our look at Switch 2 prices before the announcement, nothing in Nintendo's US store was marked down and the company hadn't said a word about holiday discounts. Here is what each deal covers, what the games will cost and how the dates line up.

Nintendo Black Friday 2026 deals at a glance

The headline deal is the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle. The box holds a Switch 2 console, a full download of Mario Kart World and a three-month (90-day) Nintendo Switch Online Individual Membership, the subscription that unlocks online play. Its suggested price is $549.99, and from November 22 to December 5, 2026, Nintendo sets it at $499.99.

That figure matters because $499.99 is also the suggested price of the Switch 2 on its own. Nintendo raised the console from $449.99 to $499.99 in the US on September 1, 2026, citing changes in market conditions. During the Black Friday window, then, the console plus Mario Kart World costs what the bare console costs the rest of the year. Bought separately, Mario Kart World lists at $79.99 and a 12-month individual Switch Online membership at $19.99, so the game alone is worth more than the $50 Nintendo puts on the label.

The Mario Kart World Bundle is the only console Nintendo discounts. The second Switch 2 bundle in its lineup, with Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, stays at $529.99, the same price it has carried since it went on sale on October 22, 2026. Nintendo still lists it among its holiday options and points to the $27.98 its contents would cost on top if bought one by one, but that saving was there before Black Friday was announced.

Where to buy matters less for the bundle than for the games. Nintendo says the bundle promotion runs at participating retailers, at its Nintendo NEW YORK and Nintendo SAN FRANCISCO stores, and on the Nintendo Store website, where the bundle is in stock at $549.99 as of November 12, 2026.

Nintendo Black Friday game deals: the $20 off list

The second deal is $20 off the suggested price of select physical games, from Sunday, November 22, through Sunday, November 29, 2026. Nintendo named the games on its list in its announcement. With the suggested prices from Nintendo's own US store, here is what each should cost during the week.

The math comes from suggested prices. A store that already sells a game below its suggested price may start the $20 cut from a different number, which is why Nintendo's fine print tells shoppers to check with the participating retailer.

Two of the games come in both a Switch 2 and a Switch version, and both versions are on the list. The Switch 2 Edition of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is $10 more than the Switch version at suggested price, and the gap stays $10 during the sale. Super Mario Party Jamboree's Switch 2 package adds Jamboree TV, and the gap between the two versions is $20. If you only own a Switch 2, the Switch versions still play on it, since Nintendo's newer console runs most Switch games; Nintendo keeps a compatibility list for the few that don't fully work.

Notably absent from the list are Mario Kart World on its own, which reaches buyers through the bundle instead, and the newest releases. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which Nintendo calls recently released in the same announcement, and Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Academy, released on November 12, 2026, are promoted in the announcement but not discounted. For how the new Zelda plays on the console, see our guide to Ocarina of Time's Switch 2 controls.

Nintendo eShop Black Friday sale dates

The digital sale is the deal that comes first. Nintendo says it begins on Thursday, November 19, 2026, and ends on Wednesday, December 2, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. PT, which is 2:59 a.m. ET on December 3. It runs in three places that share one storefront: the Nintendo eShop on the console, the Nintendo Store website and the Nintendo Store app.

Nintendo hasn't named the digital titles or their discounts, and it hasn't given a start time for November 19. The physical game list above doesn't carry over automatically: the $20 offer is a retail promotion on boxed copies, and the eShop sale has its own selection.

One more digital change lands in the same window. Starting November 16, 2026, Nintendo lets players buy eligible games, DLC and upgrade packs in Nintendo eShop as gifts for members of their Nintendo Account family group, which holds up to eight accounts. Supervised accounts can't send gifts, and Nintendo limits how many gifts one account can buy in a given period.

Nintendo Black Friday 2026 calendar, in ET and PT

Nintendo gives a clock time only for the end of the digital sale. For the retail offers, opening hours and online start times are up to each store.

How Nintendo Black Friday 2026 compares with 2025

Nintendo announced its 2025 holiday offers on November 10, 2025, two days earlier in the calendar than this year. The structure then was similar, but the console side was different. In 2025 the Switch 2 kept its $449.99 suggested price through the holidays, and the Mario Kart World bundle of the time sold at $499.99 without a cut. This year the discount is on a console bundle, and the sale price lands exactly where last year's bundle sat before the September 2026 price increase.

The games side has moved up a tier. Last year's physical deals, which started on November 23, 2025, priced select games at $39.99 and $29.99. This year's list is mostly Switch 2 games, so the lowest price is $39.99, for the two Switch versions, and the Switch 2 games land at $49.99 and $59.99. Last year Nintendo also took $10 off select amiibo figures and, from November 30, $20 off Samsung microSD Express cards; this year's announcement doesn't mention either.

The digital sale follows the same pattern as 2025: a two-week window that opens before the retail deals and closes a few days after Cyber Monday.

What Nintendo hasn't said yet

The announcement leaves a few open questions. Nintendo hasn't listed the eShop sale's games or discounts, so the most popular digital titles may or may not be part of it. It also hasn't said how many bundles each retailer will get. Accessories, including the Switch 2 Pro Controller covered in our guide to Zelda on the Pro Controller, aren't part of any announced offer.

At Nintendo NEW YORK and Nintendo SAN FRANCISCO, Nintendo adds a limited-time gift with purchase above a minimum spend, without saying what the gift is or the amount needed.

For anyone deciding between a console now and one later, the dates are the useful part: the $499.99 bundle price holds for two full weeks, through December 5, 2026, so the deal doesn't end on Black Friday. The $20 game discounts are the tighter window, closing on November 29, 2026.