Because people will buy a Switch 2 for Mario Kart, so bundle. People will also buy Switch 2 for Pokémon, so other bundle. For simplicity, they're the same price. I imagine any other major $80 games will also have a bundle for $500.
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Why is it $30 dollars cheaper? You think they just couldn't have easily sold as many by making the price the same, or even just $10 dollars cheaper. And why not have a physical bundle? And yet again, you continue to ignore game key cards.
jul 23, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
1. Most Switch 2 games are $70 2. S2 is $450 3. S2 & a game is $520 4. S2 bundled w/ game would be cost less. 5. $500 is a nice round number 6. $500 < $520 7. Mario Kart is more than $70 8. Two price points for bundles is confusing Ergo, the two bundles cost the same
jul 23, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
So your argument is that they decided to make a bundle that significantly costs less than buying the two separately for no reason? This isn't even something like the new Pokemon bundle. I would put good money that literally everyone who wanted to buy a Switch 2 at launch was going to buy MarioKart.
jul 23, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, the point of any bundle is that you guarantee money from the single purchase instead of relying on two separate purchases, potentially on separate occasions. Would *everyone* have bought Mario Kart for $80? No, but they'd get it in the bundle that's only $50 more.
jul 24, 2025, 12:06 am • 0 0 • view
It is literally the launch of the console. I just don't buy the argument that the reason MarioKart sold is because the bundle exists. Much less why the bundle is significantly cheaper than buying separately.
jul 24, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
Mario Kart definitely sold a lot because it's Mario Kart and it's a great game, but I'd bet more than a few people were persuaded into getting it because it was cheaper in the bundle.
jul 24, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
It is basically an unprovable statement. But I will point out effectively selling MarioKart World at $50 is leaving money on the table given how much Mario Kart 8 sold and it was basically at $60 most of the time.
jul 24, 2025, 12:35 am • 0 0 • view
And why were there no Zelda bundles for OG Switch? You don't think everyone who bought an OG Switch wasn't going to also buy Zelda?
jul 23, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view