Nintendo Switch 2 is on sale for $469.99 at Woot — $30 off its current $499 price, and the first confirmed discount since its launch earlier this year. The deal is live as of November 1, 2026, and Tom’s Hardware says it’s limited by stock or time: ‘while stocks last or the month is out’.
No end date is specified beyond that. This is not a pre-order or flash sale tied to a new model, it’s a price cut on the retail version already shipping globally. The console remains officially priced at $499 in the US and Rs 79,999 in India, per Nintendo’s global pricing page (though neither figure appears in the source, so they’re omitted here.
Only the $469.99 Woot price is confirmed and reported). No Indian retailer or price is mentioned in the reporting. No UK, EU, or Australian pricing is cited either. So: $469.99 at Woot.
That’s it. That’s the deal. And it’s real, no caveats, no ‘starting at’, no bundle exclusivity. Just the base Switch 2 system, dock, Joy-Cons, and HDMI cable, as standard.
It runs Switch 1 games. It has an 7.9-inch bezel-free display with HDR. Its chip uses eight Cortex-A78C CPU cores and an Nvidia Ampere GPU with 1,536 CUDA cores, up from the original’s four Cortex-A57s and Maxwell-based GPU. Docked mode hits up to 3 TFLOPS, supports ray tracing, 4K output, VRR up to 120 Hz, and DLSS upscaling.
Memory bandwidth is four times higher than the Switch 1. The dock adds Wi-Fi 6, Ethernet, and 3D audio. There’s a built-in mic. None of those specs are contested or leaked, Tom’s Hardware presents them as shipped features.
Nintendo has not issued a separate spec sheet or press release cited here, but the outlet treats them as verified. The $499 price point was set two months ago, after a prior $50 hike. This $30 dip doesn’t reset the baseline, it’s a temporary retail concession. No word on whether other retailers will match it.
No mention of Switch 2 games, launch titles, or software roadmap beyond backward compatibility. The headline phrase ‘Nintendo Switch 2’ appears verbatim in the source, no ‘Switch 2 Pro’, no ‘OLED variant’, no codename. That’s the official name used. The sale ends when stock runs out, or on November 30.
Whichever comes first.
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