Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle Production Ends, Nintendo Says It’s Now ‘Available in Limited Quantities… While Supplies Last’

Switch 2 Mario Kart World Bundle Production Ends, Nintendo Says It’s Now ‘Available in Limited Quantities… While Supplies Last’


Nintendo has signaled the end of production of the eye-catching Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, six months after the console launched.

In April, when Nintendo confirmed that the Switch 2 would cost $449.99 and Mario Kart World would cost $80, it announced a bundle that combined the two for $499.99, effectively making the launch title $30 cheaper than its standalone price.

As you’d expect, this bundle proved a popular option among early adopters, and helped fuel not only very strong sales of Mario Kart World, but the Switch 2 itself.

Production of that bundle has now come to an end, however. Over the weekend, U.S. retailer giant Game Stop announced that the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle “will no longer be produced” in a social media post that followed the leak of an internal GameStop memo to staff signalling the change.

“This bundle SKU has now reached end of lifecycle, and additional units will no longer be produced,” the memo reads. “Future replenishment of Nintendo Switch 2 will be the base console.”

Despite launching at $450, Nintendo Switch 2 sold an astonishing 10.36 million units between June 5 and September 30, a record-breaking amount that saw the platform continue its run as the biggest console launch ever. Nintendo even raised its hardware forecast for the year in response to the Switch 2’s spectacular performance, and now expects to shift 19 million units of its new console before the end of March 2026.

Mario Kart World, the Switch 2’s flagship launch game, has now sold 9.57 million copies, with 8.1 million units of that total from the console’s bundle. (So yes, more than a million people paid $80 to buy it separately.)

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.



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