{"id":647567,"date":"2025-12-22T04:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:03:20","slug":"switch-2s-mario-kart-world-bundle-has-apparently-reached-the-end-of-its-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/647567\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch 2&#8217;s Mario Kart World Bundle Has Apparently Reached The End Of Its Lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mario Kart World\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ad41c8590c842\/mario-kart-world.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mario-kart-world.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"497\" alt=\"Mario Kart World\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got your eyes on the Switch 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Kart World<\/a> bundle, you might want to get it sooner rather than later, as it&#8217;s not going to be around forever.<\/p>\n<p>Following a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1998845172046606767\">reminder from Nintendo<\/a> earlier this month that it&#8217;s still only available in &#8220;limited quantities&#8221;, a GameStop memo has supposedly been issued that apparently notes how this deal has now reached the end of its &#8220;lifecycle&#8221;. GameStop has also <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gamestop\/status\/2002874071525228771\">shared a social media message<\/a> about how it will &#8220;no longer be produced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s exactly what the internal memo says (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nintendeal\/status\/2002812731108581597\">via Nintendeal<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This bundle SKU has now reached end of lifecycle, and additional units will no longer be produced. Future replenishment of Nintendo Switch 2 will be the base console.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>CONFIRMED: the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle has officially ended production according to an internal GameStop memo<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bundle SKU has now reached end of lifecycle, and additional units will no longer be produced. Future replenishment of Nintendo Switch 2 will be the base\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RYTgQvbUaQ\">pic.twitter.com\/RYTgQvbUaQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nintendeal\/status\/2002812731108581597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo has previously mentioned how this bundle would be a &#8220;limited time production through Fall 2025&#8221; and was &#8220;available while supplies last&#8221;. It was priced at $499.99 USD ($50 more than the standalone Switch 2 system), and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/switch-2s-mario-kart-world-bundle-gets-a-surprise-sale-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently on sale in the US<\/a> (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Nintendeal\/status\/2002814078834892816\">Best Buy appears to still be offering this sale price<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Did you end up getting this bundle? How do you feel about it being a limited time offer? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/55672-website-change-gives-hope-that-the-mario-kart-world-switch-2-bundle-is-no-longer-a\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gonintendo.com\/contents\/55672-website-change-gives-hope-that-the-mario-kart-world-switch-2-bundle-is-no-longer-a\" target=\"_blank\">gonintendo.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo If you&#8217;ve got your eyes on the Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle, you might want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2487,128,270,53,16,15,978],"class_list":{"0":"post-647567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-mario-kart-world","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115761238817515005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}