The Best Switch 2 Memory Card Just Got Another Big Discount, Now Even Cheaper Than Prime Day

I mean, it's bully quality for anyone who held off, arsenic the 1TB Lexar Pro MicroSD Express Card is present considerably cheaper, and down to $157.96 (previously $186.98 during Prime Big Deal Days, MSRP is $219.99).

The 512GB mentation hasn’t escaped the post-sale terms chopped either, present down to conscionable $88.47 (previously astir $100 during the caller sale). These are the lowest prices we’ve seen each year, and the timing feels astir cruel if you paid yesterday’s “discounted” rate.

For those who bought it during the sale, atrocious luck, but it's a bully excuse if you privation to get into an statement with Amazon's lawsuit work to get a refund. Still, beryllium bully to them if you do; they're apt precise underpaid and jaded arsenic it is.

Look, this feels similar a beauteous bizarre concern to beryllium in. Other unit and I decidedly would person told you to bargain the representation paper yesterday, arsenic we were nether the content that this would apt beryllium the champion terms until Black Friday. An adjacent amended discount coming successful conscionable a time aboriginal is conscionable bewildering, adjacent if it tin beryllium spun arsenic a affirmative for those who privation to maximise their Switch 2 retention but didn't person $200+ to bash so.

Just nether $160 is simply a beauteous bully terms for the explicit cards (the lone expandable representation enactment for Switch 2), and portion inactive alternatively costly compared to different retention solutions similar modular microSDs oregon SSDs, it's the champion terms going for the maximum retention connected Switch 2 close now. We'll beryllium waiting rather a spot much clip earlier these prices driblet immoderate further than this, and I tin adjacent spot it selling retired astatine the terms constituent arsenic well.

Anyway, if you'd alternatively walk little a spot little connected a 512GB oregon 256GB representation card, Walmart’s Onn microSDs are besides different option. They don’t lucifer the Lexar's cards for speed, but successful signifier you won’t announcement overmuch quality erstwhile it comes to playing Switch 2 games oregon loading into menus.

The bigger contented is really uncovering 1 successful stock, Walmart tends to tally retired rapidly and lone reliably restocks astir large income events similar Prime Week. That makes them much of a fund fallback than a semipermanent solution, but if you spot 1 available, they’re worthy grabbing.

As for the console itself, the Switch 2 is yet casual to find. It’s successful banal crossed each large retailers close now, nary invitation queues oregon hoops to leap through. That said, Nintendo has already raised prices connected accessories and has hinted that the console could spot a terms summation too. So if you’ve been waiting to prime 1 up, it’s astir apt smarter to bargain sooner alternatively than later.

You tin besides cheque retired our Nintendo Switch 2 review, successful which Tom Marks aptly describes the caller console arsenic "a captious but unexciting upgrade to a console I already love."

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

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Oct 9, 2025 9:36 am