Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle Production Ends, Nintendo Says It's Now 'Available in Limited Quantities… While Supplies Last'

Nintendo has signaled the extremity of accumulation of the eye-catching Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, six months aft the console launched.

In April, erstwhile Nintendo confirmed that the Switch 2 would outgo $449.99 and Mario Kart World would outgo $80, it announced a bundle that combined the 2 for $499.99, efficaciously making the motorboat rubric $30 cheaper than its standalone price.

As you’d expect, this bundle proved a fashionable enactment among aboriginal adopters, and helped substance not lone precise beardown income of Mario Kart World, but the Switch 2 itself.

Production of that bundle has present travel to an end, however. Over the weekend, U.S. retailer elephantine Game Stop announced that the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle “will nary longer beryllium produced” successful a societal media station that followed the leak of an interior GameStop memo to unit signalling the change.

"This bundle SKU has present reached extremity of lifecycle, and further units volition nary longer beryllium produced,” the memo reads. “Future replenishment of Nintendo Switch 2 volition beryllium the basal console."

Today, December 22, Nintendo confirmed arsenic overmuch successful a societal media station of its own, saying: “Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle is disposable successful constricted quantities astatine participating retailers, portion supplies last.”

Nintendo has signaled the extremity of accumulation of its Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, six months aft the console launched.

While the bundle was ever described arsenic being disposable for a constricted time, it’s absorbing that Nintendo has decided present is the close clip to cease production. However, fixed however galore bundle units are disposable astatine retailers, it seems apt they volition beryllium disposable for immoderate clip to come, should you fancy dropping by the Switch 2 party.

Indeed, arsenic IGN reported implicit the weekend, Best Buy has the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle connected merchantability for $449.99, which means you’re getting Mario Kart World for free.

Nintendo has so-far resisted expanding the terms of the Switch 2, astatine a clip erstwhile its console rivals Microsoft and Sony person done so. Nintendo did rise archetypal Switch prices successful August 2025 and warned aboriginal terms adjustments for Switch 2 accessories and games mightiness occur.

Despite launching astatine $450, Nintendo Switch 2 sold an astonishing 10.36 cardinal units betwixt June 5 and September 30, a record-breaking magnitude that saw the level proceed its tally arsenic the biggest console motorboat ever. Nintendo adjacent raised its hardware forecast for the twelvemonth successful effect to the Switch 2's spectacular performance, and present expects to displacement 19 cardinal units of its caller console earlier the extremity of March 2026.

Mario Kart World, the Switch 2's flagship motorboat game, has present sold 9.57 cardinal copies, with 8.1 cardinal units of that full from the console's bundle. (So yes, much than a cardinal radical paid $80 to bargain it separately.)

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].