Nintendo Switch 2 Accessory Prices Have Gone Up, and Fans Are Feeling the Price Bump

Nintendo has confirmed the pre-order day and terms for the Nintendo Switch 2 console and its accessories. While the console's terms hasn't changed, the outgo of accessories has shifted crossed the board, and archetypal reactions bespeak this mightiness alteration aboriginal adopters' pre-order plans.

The terms of the Nintendo Switch 2 is inactive $449.99 for the basal model, and $499.99 for the bundle with Mario Kart World. The kart racer remains a $79.99 standalone game, portion Donkey Kong Bananza volition outgo $69.99.

When it comes to accessories, though, prices person broadly gone up crossed the board. Here's a point-by-point rundown:

• Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller - $84.99
• Joy-Con 2 Pair - $94.99
• Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip - $39.99
• Joy-Con 2 Strap - $13.99
• Joy-Con 2 Wheel Set - $24.99
• Nintendo Switch 2 Camera - $54.99
• Nintendo Switch 2 Dock Set - $119.99
• Nintendo Switch 2 Carrying Case & Screen Protector - $39.99
• Nintendo Switch 2 All-In-One Carrying Case - $84.99
• Nintendo Switch 2 AC Adapter - $34.99

In the announcement connected its site, Nintendo confirmed Switch 2 accessories would "experience terms adjustments from those announced connected April 2 owed to changes successful marketplace conditions." For the large summons items, similar a brace of Joy-Con 2 controllers, a Switch 2 Pro Controller, oregon a camera, a $5 bump seems to beryllium the communal thread. The Switch 2 Dock Set, meanwhile, got a $10 bump, up to $119.99 from its erstwhile $109.99.

As fans were speedy to note, an further brace of Joy-Cons is present a reasonably costly proposition. A Joy-Con 2 Pair is present $5 abbreviated of a triple-digit terms tag, and prospective Switch 2 buyers surely look baffled by the expense.

Alongside the complaints astir pricing, though, determination are predominant reminders that galore Switch 1 accessories volition inactive beryllium compatible with the Switch 2. As elaborate connected its enactment site, respective accessories tin beryllium paired with the Switch 2, including the archetypal Joy-Con controllers and the Nintendo Switch 1 Pro controller. The erstwhile cannot beryllium straight attached, but some tin beryllium wirelessly paired. Others, similar the Super Nintendo and N64 controllers, volition inactive beryllium pairable and playable with compatible games.

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Many users are posting astir Switch 1 accessory compatibility, oregon adjacent talking astir utilizing third-party controller options. While these won't person each the aforesaid functionality arsenic a Switch 2 controller, including the C-button oregon waking up the console, that mightiness beryllium worthy redeeming the other currency for immoderate Switch 2 buyers.

The terms whitethorn inactive fluctuate successful the future, arsenic Nintendo warns successful its announcement: "Other adjustments to the terms of immoderate Nintendo merchandise are besides imaginable successful the aboriginal depending connected marketplace conditions." But arsenic the prices look a small precocious for some, it's immoderate comfortableness to cognize that those with a Pro controller inactive astir tin marque usage of it connected the Switch 2.

Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 spell unrecorded connected April 24, 2025.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.