The Nintendo Switch Black Friday deal is happening

The Nintendo Switch was the quarantine tech item, and apparently, depending on how quickly some of the early Nintendo Switch Black Friday deals rolled out, it will turn out to be the weird event breaking device as well. of this year. If you’ve been waiting to buy a Nintendo Switch all year round, refresh a GameStop page nonstop while your friends breathlessly talk about their Animal Crossing Villages, well, your chance to escape the FOMO purgatorial is finally here. The Nintendo Switch is IN STOCK and DISCOUNTED. Yes, you read that right. Do not hesitate. Don’t wait. Act quickly.

Editor’s note: The first three lots of this set sold out in less than two minutes at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. Seriously. Walmart appears to continue to make small amounts of the package available every 15 minutes. Check in to see if the next one drops, then get ready to refresh.

No, the Nintendo Switch is not a particularly new device. It was first unveiled in October 2016 (i.e. a long time ago) and hit stores the following March. The stakes for the Switch were high. Nintendo’s latest console, the Wii U, wasn’t particularly greeted with enthusiasm by serious gamers or the more casual gaming community that had flocked to the Nintendo Wii motion-controlled living room madness. In its first two months of existence, the Wii sold 435,000 units. The Wii U? 57,000. A familiar theory from the conspiratorial YouTube compilers is that this is because they ditched the wacky Wii advertising strategy when promoting the Wii U (a somewhat dubious theory, of course, but convincing. same), but regardless, the company needed the Nintendo Switch to be a win.

To make a long story short, it had been a huge victory. The Nintendo Switch, which promised a hybrid experience – both connected to a TV and portable – has become Nintendo’s best-selling console. His first list of exclusive games were all absolute bangers and actually stood out over the fairly repetitive ones. Call of Duty, Assassins Creed, slightly disappointing Star wars cycle you have with Xbox and PlayStation. By the end of last year, Nintendo had sold over 52 million switches, making it the third most popular console release of all time.

Then the pandemic. You know the story now. Being forced to stay at home has changed everything we do. It made video games, something you could do safely with a group of people, seem a lot more interesting to a lot more people. For many of these people, the accessible Nintendo Switch (along with the cold phone and computer games) was exactly what the doctor ordered. And if you didn’t already have one, it would become nearly impossible to get one.

Needless to say, Nintendo Switch stock has been spotty if not nonexistent. It remains unavailable at its normal retail price of $ 300 at Target, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and GameStop. But at that point, Walmart is offering a revised version of a deal that sold out virtually immediately last weekend. The deal includes a switch, as well as Mario Kart Deluxe 8 (a game that shouldn’t need to be featured) and 3 months of Nintendo Online (which gives you access to online multiplayer for a bunch of games), for the normal retail price of a Switch. This is by far the best Nintendo Switch Black Friday deal you’ll see, and possibly the best Nintendo Switch deal you’ll see period. Seriously, don’t miss it.

Missed the Switch deal? Unfortunately, even if you were willing to pay a premium price, classic Nintendo Switches are still largely out of stock everywhere. You can, however, buy the Nintendo Switch Lite, which can play all of the same things but cannot connect to your TV. If you were to play pretty much alone or in portable mode, that’s not a huge concession.