One of the best Metroid games for the Switch is 30 percent off
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Metroid Prime Remastered is $27.99 in Nintendo’s sale through Sept. 26. It’s a polished take on a 2002 classic, and it skips the Wii version’s motion controls.
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Nintendo’s “Customer Appreciation” sale runs through September 26, and one of the better catches is Metroid Prime Remastered for $27.99 in digital form. That price applies on Switch and Switch 2, and it’s the kind of discount that makes an already easy recommendation look even easier.
The game itself is a remake of sorts, but not the lazy kind. It updates the 2002 GameCube original with improved textures and lighting, and it keeps the frame rate smooth. More importantly, it avoids the motion-control setup from the Wii release. That alone will be enough for some people.
Most Metroid fans have probably been through this one already, maybe more than once. But if it somehow slipped past, this is a good moment to fix that. The digital version is $27.99 at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. The physical copy sits at around $42 at those same stores, which is a different mood entirely.
There’s also a related buy for the obsessives: Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective. The hardcover book normally goes for $49.99, but Amazon and Walmart have it at $28.50. It’s 208 pages, covers the original trilogy, and includes quotes from people who worked on the games. That’s the sort of thing that turns a deal into a gift idea almost by accident.
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Nintendo knows exactly what it’s doing with these “Customer Appreciation” sales: dangling one genuinely good price in front of people who already own half the library. Fine. Metroid Prime Remastered at this price is the rare reminder that polish, not hype, is what makes an old game stick around.
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