Update: Pricing locally here in Australia has now been confirmed, the digital price for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is coming in at $94.95, and the physical price, which is live on the My Nintendo Store is $109.95 – the ‘regular’ price for a Nintendo Switch 2 game in Australia. The difference then is $15 or about 13% cheaper to buy it digitally.
In a roundabout way, this is almost the return of Nintendo Switch Vouchers — at the $94.95 price you’re saving almost the same percentage discount you got on games (13% here, as opposed to 15% with vouchers) when you bought a Nintendo Switch Voucher. Obviously Switch 2 games are more expensive overall, but the discount digitally is basically the same as vouchers.
However as you know as a reader of Vooks, most retailers will offer a price below RRP still, even the likes of Bellabel Park is under $90 at launch. Still it makes the pain a little less for digital only buyers.
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Original Story: For years now, there has often been a price disparity between a game released on Nintendo Switch and that from other consoles, that we jokingly called it the Switch Tax. This was so publishers could cover the costs of the game card that the Switch console used and now Nintendo are getting in on this as well, sort of.
Beginning with Yoshi and the Mysterious Book in May, games published for Nintendo Switch 2 by Nintendo will see a price difference between the physical and the digital offerings, namely physical will cost more. This is the official statement from Nintendo America about the change.
Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions.
Nintendo games offer the same experiences whether in packaged or digital format, and this change simply reflects the different costs associated with producing and distributing each format and offers players more choice in how they can buy and play Nintendo games.
As always, retail partners set their own prices for physical and digital games, and pricing for each title may vary.
For us in Australia, at the time of publishing we have not been told what our price difference will be, but we expect that to change soon. For other regions, as you can see below, the USA, UK and Japan are all showing the price difference on their respective store pages for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book.
With this new split pricing structure, it does seem that Nintendo really want players to go the digital route on Nintendo Switch 2, given that Game Key Cards also exist.
Once we get official pricing from Nintendo Australia, it will determine how much more local players will need to pay in order to get the game physically over digitally, but personally, I think we are looking at a $20 difference.
But what about you? Does this impact how you are going to buy games?
Glad to see some price responsiveness from Nintendo here. When you’re still asking $109 for the same games retailers are offloading for $65 within weeks of launch you know your economy is sick. Switch 1 digital pricing was awesome. By combining a fat stack of 20%-off eShop cards with the voucher program I bought all my first party switch 1 titles for ~$54.
This digital pricing program plus 20%-off eShop cards brings games down to ~$76. Still high but hey, I would have actually bought Bananza rather than skipping it entirely.