We’re about to get a ton of new games coming out this fall, but if you want to catch up on older stuff you already missed, a recent sale on physical Switch games is a great place to start. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, and more are all decently discounted right now.
The sale is going on at the Amazon-owned daily deals site Woot which frequently unloads extra inventory of physical video games at cheap prices. The current sale is especially good, with just about ever major first-party Nintendo Switch game being $15-20 below the standard sticker price (which the company notoriously never lowers no matter how old the game is).
Here are some of best deals:
- Super Mario Party Jamboree – $44 (27 percent off)
- Luigi’s Mansion 3 – $43 (28 percent off)
- Super Mario RPG – $35 (42 percent off)
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – $47 (22 percent off)
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – $44 (27 percent off)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – $46 (23 percent off)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – $45 (25 percent off)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder – $45 (25 percent off)
- Super Mario Odyssey – $45 (25 percent off)
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – $45 (25 percent off)
- Metroid Dread – $47 (22 percent off)
- Splatoon 3 – $45 (25 percent off)
- Mario & Luigi: Brothership – $45 (25 percent off)
- Pokémon Shining Pearl/Brilliant Diamond – $45 (25 percent off)
- Pokémon Scarlet/Violet – $47 (22 percent off)
If you already own a Switch 2, this is a great opportunity to snag any of these games you might have missed last generation. Not only do they work thanks to backwards compatibility, many of them even play better on the new, more powerful hardware. Super Mario Party Jamboree has an upgraded version on Switch 2 with new DLC for $80, so with this deal you can effectively save $16 off that completely new release. Unfortunately, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, which both look outstanding on Switch 2, aren’t part of the current sale.
Mario Kart World is already on sale for $10 off
It’s also worth noting, for anyone who didn’t get the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle, that Nintendo’s newest racer is part of the current Woot sale. It’s currently $70 for the physical edition, which doesn’t feel like saving much, but hey, welcome to the world of $80 games. Of course, if you were somehow coming to the Switch ecosystem for the first time and had to choose between either Mario Kart World or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I would definitely recommend the latter. It’s cheaper and it feels like a more classic Mario Kart experience that benefits from years of post-launch updates and support, including dozens of extra characters and tracks in the form of a paid DLC add-on.
Go buy Xenoblade Chronicles X
Monolith Soft’s remaster of the Wii U open-world RPG only came out earlier this year and the Woot discount is its cheapest price yet. It’s $47 for a physical copy (the international version) which is 22 percent off the standard $60 price. It’s the definitive version of a great game that belongs in every RPG lover’s Switch collection. I suspect physical copies of it will become harder and harder to find, too. The soundtrack is great, the mechs are fun, and the world is sci-fi as hell.
