Nintendo’s Switch 2 upgrade packs for Zelda will cost $9.99

Nintendo’s hoping to relieve immoderate of the sticker shock it gave fans with its crippled pricing with the quality that the Switch 2 upgrades for some Legend of Zelda games volition lone outgo $10 if you already ain them. The games are priced for the Nintendo Switch 2 astatine $69.99 for Breath of the Wild and $79.99 for Tears of the Kingdom. In an interrogation with IGN, Bill Trinen, Nintendo of America’s VP of merchandise and subordinate experience, broke down the pricing situation.

“What you’re looking astatine is for the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, that’s the carnal terms for idiosyncratic that has not bought the basal game,” helium said. “For idiosyncratic who has bought Tears of the Kingdom oregon Breath of the Wild, the upgrade packs for those are $9.99. And if you hap to beryllium a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack member, some of the Zelda upgrade packs are inclusive wrong that membership.”

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

But it seems that, for Americans astatine least, the pricing speech regarding Nintendo Switch 2 games volition person to instrumentality a backmost spot to the much pressing substance of figuring retired the nonstop terms of the console itself. Pre-orders person started for the Switch 2 successful different countries portion the US is forced to wait to perceive however oregon if the Trump presidency’s tariffs, which includes a 24 percent tariff connected Japanese goods, volition interaction the console’s $449.99 price.