Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly being sold for an eye-watering $40k on the black market

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Just because Nintendo has made the console official doesn't mean the Nintendo Switch 2 rumors are stopping anytime soon. Last week, a Costco employee may have revealed the Switch 2's price, with a placeholder price card for the console listing CAD$499.99, or around $350 USD. Now, a Nintendo Switch 2 console is reportedly on sale on the Chinese black market. All you'll need is a cool $40,000.

Yeesh, and here I thought the Apple Vision Pro was too rich for my blood. Granted, this information comes from a relatively sketchy source by way of the Nintendo Switch 2 subreddit. The same leaker who shared early CAD renders of the console last year before its reveal posted screenshots of a conversation with a black market seller claiming to have gotten their hands on a Nintendo Switch 2. The price is broken down individually for the console itself, the dock, and Joy-Con controllers, totaling around $39,780 for everything after conversions. The seller also claims Pro Controllers for the Nintendo Switch 2 will be available sometime this week.

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