Should You Buy a Switch 2 Now or Wait for Black Friday?

Nintendo Switch 2 has been retired and successful the hands of each the aboriginal adopters for astir 2 months now. If you haven’t pulled the trigger yet connected Nintendo’s caller hybrid console, you mightiness beryllium wondering if you should prime 1 up present that the banal shortage appears to beryllium over, oregon if you should hold for Black Friday. As idiosyncratic who has written astir income and deals for the past 8 years oregon so, I person immoderate thoughts!

Reasons to Buy Now

Reasons to Wait

It’s Expensive

Look, $450 is simply a lot. It’s $150 much than the archetypal Switch, which is hard to swallow adjacent erstwhile you see the sizable powerfulness increase. But connected apical of that up-front cost, you’ll besides request to bargain games and astir apt immoderate Switch 2 accessories arsenic good — each of which are besides much costly than their counterparts successful the past generation. If you tin enactment disconnected spending that overmuch currency until later, erstwhile determination volition beryllium much games to take from, that’s hard to resist.

There May Be a Black Friday Deal

I wouldn’t program connected seeing a discount connected the Switch 2 during Black Friday. What Nintendo has done successful the past with the archetypal Switch is see a pack-in crippled astatine nary further outgo (it was Mario Kart 8 Deluxe each azygous year). Since the Mario Kart World bundle presently costs $50 much than the Switch 2 console without a bundled game, that would prevention you immoderate currency – assuming the basal terms of the console doesn’t get pushed up owed to tariffs anterior to Black Friday, that is.

There Aren't Many Exclusive Games Yet

As amusive arsenic Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza are, that's astir it for breathtaking exclusives astatine the moment. Sure, you tin play Cyberpunk 2077 and Split Fiction connected Switch 2, but you tin besides play them connected different platforms. If you tin clasp disconnected connected playing the presently disposable exclusives, it whitethorn marque consciousness to hold until much exclusives are available, particularly if you don't person a spare $500 burning a spread successful your pocket.

Nintendo Will Likely Release a New Model astatine Some Point

Nintendo does it each console procreation without fail: it releases a caller exemplary of the console that’s amended successful each mode than the archetypal hardware. The caveat present is that the caller exemplary could instrumentality a agelong clip to arrive. The Switch OLED was released successful 2021, implicit 4 years aft the archetypal Switch came out. So waiting that agelong for a imaginable Switch 2 upgrade astir apt isn't the wisest choice.

In Conclusion

In the end, of course, you person to marque the determination that's close for you. I weighed each of the supra issues myself erstwhile Nintendo announced the Switch 2. In the end, I decided to preorder one. I had immoderate other justification due to the fact that penning astir video games is my job, but adjacent so, it was hard to portion with $500 for the bundle.

However, I don’t regret the determination astatine all. I person tons of amusive playing Mario Kart World with my kids, and I’m having an implicit blast with Donkey Kong Bananza now. Plus, I person a backlog of archetypal Switch games I ne'er got astir to playing, and they each look phenomenal connected the vibrant 8-inch Switch 2 screen.

If you take to clasp disconnected connected purchasing 1 for a imaginable Black Friday bundle discount, I won’t blasted you astatine all. Spending $500+ is nary tiny thing, and there's nary 1 close prime for everybody. But making the acquisition present means you'll person much clip to play the awesome games that are already available, and we cognize plentifulness much are coming successful the future.

Chris Reed is simply a commerce exertion and deals adept for IGN. He besides runs IGN's committee crippled and LEGO coverage. You tin travel him connected Bluesky.