As the Nintendo Switch 2 is slowly but surely rolling out across the world, fans are constantly trying to source for the cheapest or best option to obtain the hot selling console. As we have compiled in our price comparison list, Hong Kong actually sells the world’s cheapest Nintendo Switch 2. However, should you always go for the cheapest? What about warranties and peace of mind? Or physical game cards versus digital downloads?
Interestingly, of all the versions of the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundles sold around the world, it seems only the Singapore set comes with a physical game card of the game.
As you can see from the packaging above, it is quite easy to tell the Singapore set apart from the Hong Kong set. The Hong Kong set has the additional “Hong Kong Official Product” badge on the top right of the box, whereas the Singapore set has “MARIO KART WORLD Game Card Included” printed at the bottom. Although Singapore fans will be paying a little more for their console bundle, the local set benefits from a one-year local warranty and you can of course, pass the game card around with other friends and family. Buying the Hong Kong set would require you to create a HK Nintendo eShop account to redeem the game code, which will then take up 23.6GB of your precious internal storage space.
So at the end of the day, if you are one who prefers physical game media, and would rather have peace or mind knowing there is local one-year warranty support for your console investment, the Singapore set is the clear choice.
Yonk is a geek who is fortunate enough to have an equally geeky Star Wars fan for a wife, who owns a LEGO Millennium Falcon encased in a glass coffee table as their home’s centre-piece.
Kevin Low
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