Nintendo’s Switch 2 Upgrade Packs For Zelda Will Cost $9.99

Nintendo’s hoping to relieve immoderate of nan sticker shock it gave fans pinch its crippled pricing pinch nan news that nan Switch 2 upgrades for some Legend of Zelda games will only costs $10 if you already ain them. The games are priced for nan Nintendo Switch 2 astatine $69.99 for Breath of nan Wild and $79.99 for Tears of nan Kingdom. In an question and reply pinch IGN, Bill Trinen, Nintendo of America’s VP of merchandise and subordinate experience, collapsed down nan pricing situation.

“What you’re looking astatine is for nan Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, that’s nan beingness value for personification that has not bought nan guidelines game,” he said. “For personification who has bought Tears of nan Kingdom aliases Breath of nan Wild, nan upgrade packs for those are $9.99. And if you hap to beryllium a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack member, some of nan Zelda upgrade packs are inclusive wrong that membership.”

Trinen did not explicate if integer copies of nan 2 games would beryllium cheaper than their beingness versions. Additionally, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a crippled that uses amazingly nosy and informative mini-games to explicate nan soul workings of nan console, will besides beryllium priced astatine $9.99 though immoderate deliberation nan crippled should beryllium included pinch nan Switch 2 akin to Astro’s Playroom for nan PS5.

But it seems that, for Americans astatine least, nan pricing speech regarding Nintendo Switch 2 games will person to return a backmost spot to nan much pressing matter of figuring retired nan nonstop value of nan console itself. Pre-orders person started for nan Switch 2 successful different countries while the US is forced to wait to perceive really aliases if nan Trump presidency’s tariffs, which includes a 24 percent tariff connected Japanese goods, will effect nan console’s $449.99 price.