The Best Nintendo Gifts For The 2025 Holiday Season

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For anyone who prefers playing their Switch 2 while it's docked to their TV, nan caller Pro Controller is fundamentally a must-have accessory. It supports astir each nan aforesaid features arsenic what you get from nan Switch 2's attached Joy-Con, but it's overmuch much comfortable (especially for group pinch bigger hands), has larger joysticks and a brace of other customizable buttons successful back. There's besides a built-in audio jack truthful you tin plug successful wired headphones and crippled without waking up nan full location and its artillery life is truthful bully it tin spell weeks betwixt charges.

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This mightiness not beryllium nan astir breathtaking gift, but it's 1 that practically each Switch 2 proprietor will appreciate. That's because moreover though nan console comes pinch a 256GB SSD, pinch games for illustration Cyberpunk 2077 and Street Fighter 6 coming successful astatine complete 50GB each, Nintendo's onboard retention tin capable up beautiful quickly. For anyone who needs other room, a microSD Express paper is simply a immense upgrade. And dissimilar its predecessor, it's important to statement that modular microSD cards aren't compatible pinch nan Switch 2, truthful there's a bully chance that unless they already bought 1 of their own, this is thing they need. SanDisk's microSD Express paper is simply a bully option, but you tin spot different options successful our afloat guideline connected the champion microSD Express cards for nan Switch 2.

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The erstwhile Mario Kart crippled — Mario Kart 8 — lasted america nan amended portion of a decade, and pinch a immense caller unfastened situation to research and tons of caller tracks, Mario Kart World feels for illustration it's going to do nan aforesaid for nan Switch 2. Mario Kart is 1 of nan astir universally beloved franchises successful gaming history and if you cognize a Switch 2 instrumentality that doesn't person it, this is an easy win.

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While a full caller procreation of Pokémon is still astir apt a twelvemonth out, Legends Z-A is simply a awesome summation to nan franchise that offers a nosy twist connected nan series' accepted turn-based combat. It besides offers a caller look astatine Lumiose City and heralds nan return of mega evolutions, including caller forms for immoderate classical 'mons. I mean conscionable check retired Mega Victrebell. If this doesn't make personification happy, I don't cognize what will.

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Instead of a marque caller mainline Mario crippled for nan Switch 2's launch, we sewage this and I'm truthful gladsome we did because it's a ground-pounding, barrel-smashing blast. And coming from nan squad that created Mario Odyssey, Donkey Kong Bananza feels for illustration a caller instant classical from Nintendo.

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For a agelong time, this seemed destined to beryllium vaporware. But it yet came retired earlier this autumn and nan hold has been worthy it. Granted, this is simply a multi-platform release, truthful it's disposable connected different consoles. But acknowledgment to its little demanding (but still gorgeous) 2D creation style and straightforward hack-n-slash gameplay, Hollow Knight: Silksong feels for illustration a cleanable lucifer for nan Switch 2, sloppy of whether you're playing it connected a TV aliases successful handheld mode.

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Prior to this fall, getting beingness copies of these classics was incredibly difficult, arsenic they were only disposable successful a constricted postulation for nan original Switch. But now you tin relive these platforming masterpieces pinch higher value visuals that look awesome connected nan Switch 2.

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This ain't your mean Amiibo, because successful a batch of ways, nan caller figures for Kirby Air Riders are for illustration mix-and-match Transformers. Not only tin you detach each characteristic from their conveyance and switch them onto another, but they tin besides beryllium leveled up in-game to thief you scope greater heights.

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When I first saw this Lego group successful person, it took each my restraint not to tally retired and bargain it for myself. Just look astatine it. If this doesn't conjure up cozy feelings of a handheld that chewed done AA batteries while keeping millions of kids entertained during roadworthy trips successful nan '90s, past you mightiness beryllium dormant inside. Lego moreover includes immoderate faux displays pinch a lenticular effect to springiness nan belief that nan crippled really runs. Very neat.

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With Metroid Prime 4 owed retired successful early December, this look backmost astatine each nan awesome creation from erstwhile entries successful nan franchise is nan cleanable table-setter for a caller Metroid crippled and immoderate die-hard fans of our favourite armored heroine.

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Look, you can't play video games each nan clip (even though we'd each for illustration to) and I'd reason that's not patient either. But if you want to present older kids to a classical crippled that has stood nan trial of time, it's difficult to spell incorrect pinch this matrimony betwixt chess and Zelda.

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There is truthful overmuch lore and history to nan Zelda franchise that it was difficult to support things straight. That is, up until a fewer years agone erstwhile this compendium came retired and yet corrected nan grounds and shed immoderate ray connected immoderate of nan murkier events crossed 1 of nan astir storied crippled sagas of each time.

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This whitethorn not beryllium a invited show for parents, but this is judge to delight children who emotion cars, Mario aliases both. And because it has room to shop much than 30 karts, this mightiness really thief trim immoderate clutter. That's a win-win business successful my book.

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If you're looking for a little frenetic motion to Nintendo's creations, this 1,000-piece Pikmin puzzle is nosy for nan full family. It's nan cleanable activity to relax while enjoying bully food, portion and nan warmth of a adjacent fire. And if this peculiar group doesn't do it, there's besides an charismatic Mario Kart-themed one arsenic well.

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For young Nintendo fans who mightiness not beryllium fresh for video games yet, Rosalina's Storybook is simply a charming measurement to present children to nan astir underappreciated Nintendo princesses.

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When I first laid eyes upon this, I instantly knew it was destined to spark joyousness successful nan lives of dads crossed nan country. It's loud, it's tacky and it says you're fresh to party. And yet there's still thing undeniably cool astir a garment pinch a gorilla smashing barrels connected it. And if you're emotion a small sinister, there's this option featuring each nan champion baddies.

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Who says clothing based connected a video crippled can't look good? Because if I were a kid, I'd stone this Super Mario bomber overgarment everyplace and wouldn't deliberation twice. And if you for illustration a different character, Macy's has different styles based connected Luigi, Peach and more.

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You can't dislike Kirby. You conscionable can't. He's conscionable a lovable small puffball that deserves to spell wherever he wants — and acknowledgment to this backpack that looks for illustration a plushie aliases this nifty small beanie, you tin return him pinch you everywhere.

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Even though Nintendo owns a 3rd of nan Pokemon Company, location are truthful galore Pokemon-themed gifts that we simply don't person room for them here. But I'd beryllium remiss not to mention this 24-inch Gengar plush I bought my boy for his day this year, which has quickly go a caller personnel of nan family and nan go-to action erstwhile personification wants to safely assemblage slam thing into nan ground.

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There's thing astir a themed merchandise that fits truthful people into different situations, which makes nan thought of a Super Star character topper specified a nosy summation to this year's vacation celebrations. It moreover comes pinch a distant that you tin usage to activate a synchronised ray and euphony show, really nosy is that?

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Alternatively, if you want much assortment for nan decorations connected a loved one's Christmas tree, there's a full family of ornaments featuring characters for illustration Princess Peach, Chikorita and beautiful overmuch immoderate different Nintendo characteristic you tin deliberation of.

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If you cognize personification for illustration maine who has an addiction to plushies, location is nary shortage of cuddly gifts to take from. This Bob-omb is simply adorable and this very tossable green shell is simply a awesome measurement to get payback against anyone who hit you successful Mario Kart. But location are truthful galore options. There's a One Up mushroom, a Buzzy Beetle and a big 'ole Thwomp and truthful overmuch more. However, my favourite caller introduction for this vacation play mightiness beryllium this Morph Ball from Metroid, though timing connected this 1 is simply a spot trickier since it doesn't officially spell connected waste until November 14.

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Technically it's not a Stanley Cup, but that's OK, because those ne'er had nan swag that these recreation mugs do. Plus, location are a bunch of different versions to take from including ones based connected Bowser, Luigi and more.

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This is simply a awesome gift for kids because not only tin it service arsenic a nighttime light, it besides livens up immoderate room while looking and functioning conscionable arsenic bully arsenic it does successful crippled (you know, speech from making you invincible).

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