Nintendo confirms Switch 2 UK price above £400
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This is Nintendo Life's regular weekend feature, in which staff round up the week's gaming news before sharing what they plan to play. The headline story is that Nintendo has confirmed the UK price of the newly revised Switch 2, pushing the console above the £400 mark, while a network test for FromSoftware's upcoming title The Duskbloods also began this week, prompting a wave of previews and fresh details on the studio's collaboration with Nintendo.
Staff picks for the weekend reflect that news: several editors plan to try The Duskbloods network test, Jim Norman is starting Oblivion, and Gavin Lane is playing LEGO Party with his children while weighing a return to Fortnite for its new season. Alex Olney is replaying Super Mario World with a self-imposed challenge of skipping the Switch Palaces, and Mai Ladyman is juggling Pokémon Pokopia, Death Stranding 2 and a Kingdom Hearts replay, with readers' own comments adding further picks such as SimCity, WoW Classic, Diablo III and Kirby's Dream Land.
- Nintendo confirms revised Switch 2 UK price, now above £400.
- FromSoftware's Duskbloods network test began, drawing previews this week.
- Nintendo Life staff share their weekend gaming plans, including Oblivion and LEGO Party.
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Nintendo's Switch 2 launched in 2025 as the successor to the hugely popular Switch console, and demand for it has remained strong. Nintendo periodically updates pricing for its hardware in different regions, and the UK price has now been confirmed to sit above £400, making this one of the more expensive Nintendo consoles sold in Britain to date.
The story comes from Nintendo Life, a gaming news site that publishes a regular weekend round-up combining its own staff's gaming plans with a summary of the week's biggest headlines. Alongside the pricing news, the piece also covers a "network test" for The Duskbloods, an upcoming game from FromSoftware, the acclaimed Japanese studio behind titles such as Elden Ring, which is working with Nintendo on this project.
The pricing detail matters because it affects how much UK consumers will need to pay to buy or upgrade to the console, feeding into wider conversations about the rising cost of games hardware. The rest of the article is a lighter feature, with individual writers such as Jim Norman, Gavin Lane, Alex Olney and Mai Ladyman sharing what games they intend to play that weekend, plus two short reviews of newly released titles.
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Originally published by Nintendo Life as “Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd August)”.