If you\u2019re confused about that claim because you\u2019ve heard the price repeated as fact 100 times by now, I can\u2019t blame you. In the immediate chaos following the Switch 2\u2019s reveal, players were left to dig up information themselves. Last week\u2019s Switch 2 Direct didn\u2019t even state the console\u2019s price; I only found out about it through an email after the stream ended. That was confusing enough, but Nintendo\u2019s lack of transparency caused even more confusion around games. It didn\u2019t take long for players to discover that Mario Kart World and some Nintendo Switch 2 Editions<\/a> of original Switch games will retail for $80. Variable pricing for games only made matters harder to understand, as heavy hitters like Donkey Kong Bananza<\/a> will cost $70 instead.<\/p>\n Somewhere in that rapid learning process, word began to spread that the physical editions of some Switch 2 games would cost 90 Euros. That fact quickly mutated into a different one entirely: That physical Switch 2 games cost $90. It\u2019s hard to pinpoint where exactly that jump originated from, but it\u2019s easy to see how someone could have misinterpreted it. Maybe they assumed the Euro symbol was a dollar sign. Maybe they mistakenly assumed that those two things are 1:1. Whatever happened, it should have been a detail that was debunked within a day.<\/p>\n Instead, it spread like wildfire. And it has yet to stop.<\/p>\n How does something like this happen on the internet, a repository of readily available information? After all, it\u2019s not hard to find Mario Kart World\u2018s official price. Its website has listed an $80 MSRP since day one. That question leads to an unfortunate answer: The internet is becoming more harmful than helpful by the day. Social media platforms built to drive engagement through outrage and an increasing reliance on inaccurate AI tools to source our news are making us dumber, and the Switch 2 pricing rumor is only one small example of that.<\/p>\n \t\tReddit<\/p>\n Let\u2019s break down the misinformation pipeline here. A quick Google search along the lines of \u201cSwitch 2 games $90\u201d will inevitably bring up a Reddit thread from \/Games<\/a> titled \u201cNintendo Switch 2 Games Will Cost $80 For Digital, $90 For Physical.\u201d The post includes a link to an article from Insider Gaming, a website known as a source for video game leaks. Insider Gaming was among a small handful of sites to run with the story that physical Switch 2 games cost $90 early on. Websites like Forbes<\/a> reported the same information on April 2 in an article that includes no source for the claim and even mentions the 90 Euro detail. The article has not been corrected in the week following its publication.<\/p>\n Insider Gaming, on the other hand, did change its article<\/a>. If you go into that Reddit thread and click the linked story, you\u2019ll instead land on \u201cNintendo Switch 2 Games Will Cost Up To $98 For Physical Games When Converted From Euros.\u201d There\u2019s a correction midway down the article now, but that change isn\u2019t reflected in the Reddit thread that now dominates search results on the topic.<\/p>\n That telephone game only gets worse. Exacerbating the confusion is Google\u2019s own AI overview, a tool that dominates the top of the page when it populates. If you were to Google \u201chow much are Switch 2 games?\u201d right now, there\u2019s a good chance you will get an AI overview that tells you that physical games either could or do cost $90. In my current search results, Google says \u201cNintendo Switch 2 games are expected to be priced higher than previous Nintendo Switch titles, with many games potentially costing\u00a0$79.99 or even $89.99.\u201d Other results I\u2019ve seen cut the \u201cpotentially\u201d entirely and say they \u201cwill\u201d cost that much.<\/p>\n That information comes with a few links, citing where the news came from. A link on a blurb about the $90 price point goes to an article from Indy100, which says outright that Mario Kart World<\/a> costs $90 with no source to back it up. Other cited links point to articles from Mashable and CNET. The latter actually debunks the $90 claim<\/a>, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Google\u2019s AI for using it as a source to back up its faulty information.<\/p>\n \t\tGoogle<\/p>\n In sleuthing around to find who else misreported the price, I searched \u201cDigital Trends Switch 2 $90\u201d to see if we had mistakenly published it. The results turn up an AI overview that says \u201cYes, there are reports that some Nintendo Switch 2 games will be priced at $90 for physical copies and\u00a0$80 for digital.\u201d It does not link to Digital Trends, but rather a video from YouTuber DreamcastGuy<\/a> complaining about the made up price. The second source? The Reddit thread linking a now corrected Insider Gaming story. Scroll down past the overview and you\u2019ll find that Reddit thread surfaced first before a Digital Trends article<\/a> explaining the hardware price. It is followed by the false Forbes article, one from Game Rant<\/a>, and a NeoGaf forum post<\/a> \u2014 all of which state the unconfirmed information as fact.<\/p>\n This is the world we\u2019re currently living in. The internet has always been loaded with misinformation, but it used to be that sites like Google would weed out the bad information and surface reputable sources first. That last line of defense has gone away in the wake of constant algorithm changes that prioritize sites like Reddit and AI tools that then regurgitate what\u2019s on those sites and spits them back out as facts. That then bleeds back out into angry social media posts and YouTube videos that are designed to rack up views and engagement, and then fed back into Google\u2019s AI tools to complete the cycle. There\u2019s no putting the genie back in the bottle once information like that becomes accepted. I\u2019ve had conversations with people offline where I\u2019ve been asked what I think about the $90 games. It\u2019s just something people believe now and it will continue to be reinforced by the tools that we rely on to inform us. We\u2019re all left a little angrier for it.<\/p>\n The Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s pricing woes are very real. The console\u2019s $450 price tag is a big leap over its predecessor, $80 for Mario Kart World is still steep<\/a>, and even the system\u2019s glorified digital instruction manual<\/a> meant to act as a Switch 2 tech demo costs $10. You might even end up spending $90 if you buy The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild \u2014 Switch 2 Edition and then throw in its additional DLC<\/a>. And who knows, physical games could end up costing $90 once launch day actually comes. President Donald Trump\u2019s current tariff roulette<\/a> means that everything is in flux. We will update this article if the game pricing does in fact change.<\/p>\n But as of right now, there\u2019s no hard information indicating that Switch 2 games actually do cost $90, no matter how many Facebook memes tell you they do. Be vigilant about where you get your information. Do your research when you come across something that sounds wrong. 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