Nintendo's 2025 Black Friday Deals Skip Hardware

Nintendo has unveiled its Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions for 2025, offering discounts on select original Nintendo Switch games, amiibo figures, and storage cards for the newer Switch 2 console, but stopping short of any reductions on hardware itself. The deals, announced this week, will run through late November and early December at participating retailers and on the Nintendo eShop across North America.

The promotions kick off with a Cyber Deals sale on the eShop from November 20 to December 3, featuring markdowns on digital versions of popular Switch titles. Starting November 23 and continuing through the Black Friday period ending November 29, physical and digital copies of nine first-party games will see price cuts at retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart, and official Nintendo stores in New York City and San Francisco. Titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Princess Peach: Showtime! will drop to $39.99, a roughly 33 percent reduction from their standard $59.99 price. Other games, including Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 3, Nintendo Switch Sports, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Kirby's Return...