Rumour: Nintendo To Launch A New Switch OLED Bundle With Mario Wonder

The bundle looks cute, but I still wait for the next Switch machine so I can play another ACNH on new Switch machine and exchange items with my ACNH from old Switch machine.

This is probably meant to push existing Switch sales for the holiday season. Probably an indication that Switch 2 isn’t launching until after the holidays.

I’m convinced this console will never die. Haha. It’s a dream we can’t wake up from.

Drop the frikin' price already, Nintendo. You're so close to taking the highest selling console of all time of any kind ever crown. God dang take it!

There's our switch 2 confirmation!

Seems like a decent move for the holiday season.
This bundle will sell like hotcakes together with a copy of MK8deluxe. ^_^;;

They really goin after the PS2 this holiday.

That’d probably be announced soon, I doubt they’d announce that so close to the Switch Successor but who knows

You guys @Olliemar28 working on a Switch hardware "roadmap" article yet? Maybe in the form of a poll, or a soapbox? Hard to imagine Nintendo will be selling 4 consoles at the same time after Switch 2, though I suppose it's possible to have:

$199 Lite
$300 Switch
$350 OLED
$400 Switch 2

but it doesn't seem the way to go from a manufacturing perspective, want as much as possible going towards Switch 2.

I really thought Sony would drop PS4 and keep the Pro, why continue to sell an inferior model, but I was wrong, don't think you could find a Pro anywhere now, but PS4 are still out there.

Anyway I was just wondering if this was a way to move inventory before they stop making OLED b/c those price points would be too similar, better off just making Switch 2 at $400 and Lite at $200 until $250 Lite 2 launches. But who knows w/ Nintendo, we could get a Switch 2DS as well. 😂

Still surprised that they haven't dropped the OG model and just pushed the OLED

Unless they do a price drop I can’t see how they’re going to get 13 million copies sold. The new Zelda game might get a few new converts onboard but probably not to the extent of TOTK last year. So unless Nintendo do something major it aint happening

What is the point of this? Current switch is more or less dead and has been for the last 18 months at least with the amount of fodder released. Mario wonder for me was probably the weakest mario game theyve made and I'm being kind, can't see much interest in this pointless bundle 🤷‍♂️

@RetroGames knowing Nintendo they’ll probably increase the price of this if it comes with wonder!

If it comes to North America, that's the OLED I'm getting if I cannot find a Smash Bros. one. Though the digital copy of Wonder would be sold to buy a physical one.

Still waiting for Wonder to get an eshop sale.

@rjejr not to "jump in" but based on their history. They'll stop making the Switch, then the OLED and keep the lite around as a "entry level" device. Remember Nintendo released a new version of the 3DS after the Switch launched (N2DSXL) though I doubt they'll do that again if the Switch 2 has BC.

I'm done giving tip to Nintendo about how they sell their Switch cause that tip was given to them a few years ago. It seem they still want to keep the price as is and just rely on bundle instead. I don't think the Switch would outsell the PS2 this year but if they kept the Switch for two more years even after the successor launch they could reach it. Heck they could even launch an OLED Switch Lite model much later and still get some sale if they want.

This should be the new Black Friday bundle!

every Black Friday period they release a special bundle, but the game has always been Mario Kart. last year for the first time it was the OLED model. it's nice that they are going to change the game 🙂

See, things like this make it real hard to believe a Switch 2 announcement will happen this month. Nintendo are gonna wanna make a hard push to maximize Switch sales for the December Holidays.

@JohnnyMind they wanted to get excitement out for the original Switch since Nintendo was ice cold with the Wii U. The Switch is still pretty hot in the marketplace, it’s a night and day difference between the Wii U/3DS years. If they do anything, it’ll be a teaser and no announcement of specs until after the new year.

Highly unlikely they’ll announce the next evolution of the Switch until January, then an event in lieu of Direct in February and a likely spring launch in April or May.

@Tyaku "Probably an indication that Switch 2 isn’t launching until after the holidays."

That is like the most obvious thing ever. The Switch 2 is going to be revealed this fiscal year, it hasn't even been revealed yet. How is there even the remotest chance of it launching this year?
And it's also incredibly obvious that this is meant to push Switch 1 hardware sales.

@datamonkey They have been doing bundles with games where the game is included for free for several years now with Mario Kart, Smash Bros. Ultimate, Switch Sports and ACNH.

@Lifesabeach88 this comment has to be a joke. The Switch has never been better in terms of quality games, honestly. And if Mario Wonder is the worst Mario game, why would it be the fastest selling Mario game to date? It's the best 2D entry in the series, full stop. Yes, Ive played all of them (and I do mean all of them).

Mario 64 is still my favorite but I'm guessing this is to become the number 1 selling console.

Nintendo wants the NX to go the distance. Like I typed the other day, I'm ok upgrading, though not in any hurry, as I'm extremely satisfied with my Switch, and library.

@datamonkey Probably. The fools.

I believe this rumour more than the Switch 2 reveal this month one. I would be very surprised if we see the Switch 2 this year.

@Lifesabeach88 Buddy, you're wrong on so many levels. Wonder may not have been the greatest reinvention for Mario, but it's certainly more fresh than NSMB had been for years.

On the Switch in general, a lot of great things have been released within the past year or so, they just aren't for you. Switch keeps selling, and the success will be ever bigger if the next console releases in a few months.

@DiamondJim Nintendo's full of surprises, so you never know lol.

@GrailUK October might be a better guess for a reveal if I had to make one. It just seems right I think.

This makes sense for Nintendo after challenging themselves to keep selling Switches this fiscal year. It’s mystifying that they won’t do a price drop though. Imagine how much more quickly they can meet a target if they did, let alone an all-time record!

It was one thing for "Switch 2 announcement soon™" rumours to ignore the already scheduled Switch bundles this autumn, but now they're unironically promising more of the latter at the same time? Truly, anything goes in the business of harvesting clicks and views.

Hopefully the annual MK8 Deluxe bundle returns.

Funny everyone assumes the Switch will immediately never sell another unit when the successor shows up. They still have that post twilight period where the original Switch can be price dropped and marketed as a cheap entry into a vast library. They won't price drop early the same reason they rarely discount, because the competition is so trigger happy on discounts it allows Nintendo to position themselves as the premium product. That's been their angle since the seal of quality, yet it's always this expert advice around comment boxes that they need to discount and put things on sale.

@BTB20 yeah for the OG switch they have but I’ve not noticed any oled bundles.

@batmanbud2 wonder sold well as there hadn't been a decent mario game for quite some time just because it sold well doesn't mean it was a quality game

@GoldenBot roll on switch 2 sold my console earlier this year as played pretty much everything worth playing. Switch has had some great games just now it is on its last legs. Next machine backwards compat will let me get a couple of the late titles I missed so happy about that

@GoldenBot Well anything before March next year would be a surprise for me. A welcome one for sure.

I don’t know who would want this but if it was a Mario wonder oled it would be interesting.

@Lifesabeach88 Fodder and weakest must mean something completely different to what I thought it did.
2023 was the Switch's best year since 2017, and Mario wonder is lightyears ahead of the NSMB series.

@Lifesabeach88 that's a purely nostalgia-fuelled opinion. Odyssey, 3D World + Bowsers Fury, and Wonder are some of the best Mario games I've played. And yes, I've played every mainline entry except Galaxy 2 (and even that will change). Galaxy 1 is still the best, but these come close. On the other hand, I was disappointed in SMB3 and Sunshine, and found 64 to be just ok (though the remakes of SMB3 and 64 were definitely better). World is still incredible, as is NSMBDS.

Well, I can say that I'm glad that they are finally doing a different bundle anyways rather than the Mario Kart 8 bundle they had for years and years.

Nintendo LOVES Apple. So anything Apple does, Nintendo enjoys emulating. Therefore, Nintendo will probably want to follow up Apple's conference with something of their own in September.

Remember, Apple was the first to do all of that magnetic snapping with their accessories. And Nintendo is slated to follow suit with magnetic Joycons!

Fans: We want Switch 2!
Nintendo: Buy a second Switch!

@LadyCharlie I don't know if this really has any bearing on whether or not an announcement is imminent. Anyone still buying a Switch this late probably isn't fussed about wanting the new thing if they waited this long, and the existence of new hardware is already officially confirmed, we just haven't seen the thing yet.

At least its not yet another Mario Kart bundle.

@datamonkey They had several OLED bundles last year.

@BTB20 oh I didn’t see them 😶