Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch Games Price Tracker

Nintendo rarely discounts its own hardware, and its first-party games hold their price for years. That makes the Switch 2 one of the few consoles where the deal you want usually arrives as a short window: a retailer bundle that appears for a weekend, a pre-order that reopens for twenty minutes, a game that drops by $20 and climbs back a week later.

A price tracker turns those windows into alerts. You pick the product pages, Visualping checks them on a schedule, and you get an email with a screenshot the moment a price or a stock status changes. This guide covers what is worth tracking right now, where Switch 2 deals actually show up, and how to set up a tracker in five steps.

Updated September 17, 2026, after the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct.

What Switch fans are tracking right now

On September 8, Nintendo held a Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct and announced a Switch 2 Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition console. Pre-orders opened right after the stream and, as Tom's Hardware reported, sold out almost immediately at Nintendo's own store and the big US retailers. The same report put the list price at $519.99, about $20 more than a standard Switch 2, and reported eBay listings reaching $1,000 within days. The console launches October 29.

We can see that scramble in our own data. Over the previous two months, about three Visualping customers a week set up monitors on Nintendo's store pages. In the week of September 7, 242 customers started monitoring nintendo.com/us/store, and another 61 started monitoring Nintendo's regional stores in the UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Almost every one of those monitors pointed at the same handful of pages:

• the Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition console listing
• the matching Switch 2 Pro Controller with its Zelda display stand, sold separately
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, which arrives a week after the console, with a limited-run physical edition
• the Metroid Ravenous special edition, announced at the general Nintendo Direct on September 9

If you missed the first pre-order wave, set a tracker before you pay resale. Tom's Hardware notes that Zelda-themed consoles have historically been available on launch day and that Nintendo's previous limited editions stayed in stock for months, and retailers tend to reopen pre-order allocations without announcing it. A tracker on the product page at Best Buy, Target, Walmart, GameStop or the Nintendo Store tells you the moment "Sold Out" changes to "Pre-order" or "Add to Cart". When a drop lasts minutes, that is the whole game.

Where Switch 2 and Switch game deals show up

Nintendo sets the price on its own storefront and almost never moves it. Deals come from three places.

Retailer bundles

Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Amazon periodically bundle a console with a game or a gift card at a price Nintendo's store will not match. These appear around Black Friday, but also in quieter months when a retailer wants foot traffic, and they rarely last more than a few days.

Individual game price drops

Third-party Switch and Switch 2 games start dropping within months of launch. First-party Nintendo titles fall more slowly and less often, which is exactly why a drop on a Mario Kart, Zelda or Pokémon title is worth an alert.

The Nintendo eShop

Digital sales run on a rotating schedule, and eShop deals are where indie titles and older first-party games get their steepest cuts. Wishlisting in the eShop notifies you of sales, but only for that store; a page monitor covers physical copies at other retailers too.

For the US, these are the pages worth a monitor: the Nintendo Store, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart and GameStop. Each of those links is our guide to that retailer's quirks, such as Amazon prices that only appear in the cart and Target's regular-price anchors. In the UK, Amazon, Argos, Currys and Very carry most Switch 2 stock and run the most frequent bundle promotions.

Bundle or separate game? Check the math

A bundle is only a deal if the game inside it is one you would have bought at full price. Retailers pad bundles with a title that sells for $20 on its own and charge the standard console price plus a little, which lowers the real value of the offer.

Before you buy, look up the standalone price of the bundled game. If it is a full-price first-party title, the bundle is probably worth it, because those games seldom get discounted any other way. If it is a title already selling for $25, buy the console alone and track the game you actually want. Bundles outside busy shopping periods are the most likely to use the cheaper-game tactic.

How a Nintendo Switch price tracker works

Visualping is a website change detection tool used by more than 2 million people to monitor any web page for changes, including price drops and restocks.

You give it a product page and choose the part of the page to watch, usually the price and the stock status. Visualping then takes a screenshot of that area on the schedule you set and compares each new screenshot with the last one. When something changes, you get an email with the change highlighted, an AI summary of what changed, and a link straight to the page so you can buy before the restock spreads.

Is it free?

Yes. The Free plan includes 150 checks a month across up to 5 pages, with checks as often as once an hour. That is enough to watch a console listing and a few games daily.

For a launch like the Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition, where a restock can sell out in minutes, hourly is too slow. The Starter plan ($14 a month, or $120 a year) checks every 15 minutes. The Personal 5K plan ($35 a month, or $300 a year) checks every 5 minutes and adds SMS alerts, which is the setup for a console that sells out in minutes. The pricing page has the full comparison.

Does it only track Nintendo prices?

No. The same monitor works for any product page on any site. People use it as a PS5 stock checker, an Xbox Series X restock alert, a Pokémon TCG restock tracker and a general price alert for anything from airfare to appliances. If you care more about availability than price, our Nintendo Switch stock tracker guide covers restock alerts specifically.

How to set up a Nintendo Switch price tracker

Step 1. Go to the Visualping homepage and paste the URL of the product page you want to track, for example the Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition listing at Best Buy or the Nintendo Store. You do not need an account to start.

Step 2. When the page loads in the preview, select the area to monitor. For price tracking, draw the box around the price and the stock or pre-order button so one monitor catches both a price change and a restock.

Step 3. Choose how often to check: hourly on the Free plan, every 15 minutes on Starter, every 5 minutes on Personal.

Step 4. Enter the email address for alerts and click Start Monitoring.

Step 5. Visualping emails you a link to set a password. Do this step, because it completes your account and gives you a dashboard where every monitor and alert lives in one place.

Pick the price condition and the monitor is running before you close the tab

Repeat Steps 1 to 4 for each product page. A useful starter set for this fall is the Zelda edition console at two retailers, the Pro Controller and stand at the Nintendo Store, Ocarina of Time at whichever retailer you prefer for physical games, and one or two Switch 2 games you are waiting to see drop.

Which games are worth a bundle

First-party Nintendo games are the ones to look for in a bundle, because they are the ones that almost never go on sale alone. Mario Kart, Mario Party, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Pokémon titles have held their launch price for years on the original Switch, and early Switch 2 titles are following the same pattern. A bundle is the one reliable way to get them below list price.

Third-party and older titles are the opposite case. Track them individually and wait for the drop, which usually comes.

Set the monitors once and let them run. When the Zelda edition reappears, when a bundle lands, or when the game you want finally drops, you will know within minutes.