Super Mario Maker 2 is more than a return to a franchise pairing creative level design with classic Mario platforming action. There's actually a full single-player campaign in here which offers up a complete Mario game in itself. That's excellent value, especially when taken with the infinite number of levels available to you through the online libraries.
A Nintendo Switch Online membership is a must here, however. The party brawler classic hit the Nintendo Switch in and still sees new content drops to this day. That's perfect whether you're looking to recreate those Smash Bros.
This is a canonical title for Nintendo, so price drops are hard to come by. Splatoon 2 can be found in cheap Nintendo Switch game sales, but it's rare to find a major discount on the first person paintball shooter. Super Mario Party is starting to see some serious price drops. The board game style competitive party title flings a series of mini-games at you and your pals as you move around a virtual board and hoover up secrets, coins, and powerups.
If the game you're after isn't featured above, you'll find plenty more Nintendo Switch game deals at the retailers below.
Nintendo Switch games do go on sale, but those big first party releases won't seem nearly as many discounts as third party and non-Mario or Zelda titles. That means the flagship Nintendo golden games will take a couple of years to near the prices of the smaller titles, but if you stay on top of sales events and keep a keen eye on the price charts above, you'll likely find some decent price drops in the meantime.
There's a massive range of first and third party Nintendo Switch games on the books for , and some without confirmed release schedules.
The biggest upcoming Nintendo Switch titles that should be on your radar are just below. If you're eyeing up those multiplayer titles, you'll want to grab yourself some extra cheap Joy-Con to expand your player count. Or, if you're more concerned with the traditional docked mode, take a look at the latest Pro Controller deals for a full gamepad. We're also tracking all the latest Ring Fit Adventure prices for more fitness-focused discounts as well.
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Honor's new foldable phone is bigger and more powerful than the Galaxy Z Fold 3. Can't get a PS5? Sony may try to sell you a PS4 instead. Super Smash Bros. Melee was the first game many people played on the GameCube. Luigi's Mansion was the big launch title, but Super Smash Bros. Melee came just months into the GameCube's lifecycle. It did a lot for the GameCube, but did even more for the Smash Bros. It took the original's formula and sharpened it, making it deeper and more balanced.
The original N64 title was a lot of fun, but Melee solidified it into a legitimate fighting franchise, a game still played competitively around the world today. That's a tribute to its genius.
Melee is still insanely fun to play today -- if you can find a GameCube controller. Animal Crossing feels almost ubiquitous after the release of New Horizons in , so it's easy to forget how quirky the original GameCube version felt. It just dropped players into a lazy little town filled with talking animals and said, "Do what you want. I was no stranger to hanging out in quaint virtual towns, thanks to all the hours I spent in Harvest Moon 64, but I had never played a game that was as laid-back as Animal Crossing.
Want to go fishing? Plant fruit trees? Make a tiny garden? Turn your basement into a cement nightmare filled with the discordant music of a dozen gyroids? Sure, go for it. The closest thing Animal Crossing had to a main quest was upgrading your home and paying off your loans, but even that was optional, with no interest or due dates attached to the upgrades.
It was the kind of game to make you reconsider what makes a good video game and I'm always happy for surprises like that. The original and best, Pikmin makes the most of its delicately simple ruleset. Essentially a small-scale strategy game where you use an army of tiny "Pikmin" to lift objects and solve puzzles, Pikmin stretches its high concept to the absolute limits. It's a Nintendo game, so movements feel fun and sticky, but the meta-game is the real star. The more you play the more balanced you realise Pikmin actually is.
Just a perfect, beautiful little video game. Maybe the most controversial major Mario release ever. Super Mario Sunshine was derided upon release, then loved in hindsight. Recently, as part of the Mario 3D All-Stars package, it feels like the pendulum has swung once more and people are complaining about it again.
It's flawed no doubt. It never achieves the perfect simplicity of Mario 64 or the inspired kaleidoscopic madness of Super Mario Galaxy, but Super Mario Sunshine has its own delightful aesthetic. It's a wild game. Not perfect, but incredibly fun nonetheless. Wipeout dominated the futuristic racer discourse back then, but F-Zero GX was arguably a better expression of pure, sci-fi speed.
It also looked glorious. F-Zero GX was smooth, slick and just an absolute joy to play. The single player mode was notoriously difficult, but in hindsight that was part of its cult appeal. The fact we haven't had an F-Zero game since the release of this classic is almost criminal. Retro Studios defied expectations with the first Metroid Prime, masterfully reinterpreting Nintendo's atmospheric side-scrolling series as a first-person adventure.
Its inevitable follow-up, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, expanded on the formula with more complex environments and even bigger bosses, resulting in another instant GameCube classic. As with the original, the setting itself was the star attraction.
In a nod to the Zelda classic, A Link to the Past, Samus traverses two mirror worlds in Metroid Prime 2: the arid Aether and its dark counterpart, a murky parallel universe created when the planet was struck by a rift-forming meteor. This gave Aether an even more ominous feel than Tallon IV -- thanks in large part to the dark world's suffocating atmosphere -- and using the power-ups you gained to navigate the expertly crafted environmental puzzles felt immensely satisfying.
Metroid Prime 2 also ramped up the difficulty, featuring some of the tensest boss encounters in the series' history. These battles were as much a test of wit as of reflex, as nearly every foe had some sort of pattern or puzzle to figure out. It may not be remembered quite as fondly as the original -- very few games are, after all -- but Metroid Prime 2 was another riveting adventure that further proved how well the Metroid series worked in first-person. Sure it was multiplatform, but given the addition of Link as a playable character on the roster, Soulcalibur II always felt very Nintendo to me.
Also: It ruled. It was almost certainly the peak of the 3D fighting genre back then and it rarely got better than this. In the next generation we went back to Street Fighter IV and fighting games changed on us -- possibly for the better? But for this generation of consoles, Soulcalibur II was king.
Many fans are already wondering what else Nintendo might reveal, and a new rumor suggests that the company has big plans for Pikmin. Leak group LeakyPandy on Twitter claims that it has heard about a new series entry in development at Next Level Games, the team behind Luigi's Mansion 3. As with any Switch rumor, readers are advised to take this with a grain of salt until we receive official confirmation about the game from Nintendo.
Pikmin has never been a huge seller for Nintendo, but the series maintains a healthy and passionate following. The original Pikmin released on the GameCube just a few weeks after the system's launch. The main series has seen two direct sequels, and Pikmin 3 was ported to Nintendo Switch following strong fan demand.
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