Costco limits the offer to its members. The offer combines the console, storage card, and one-year subscription at a single advertised price, The Verge reports. It's a Nintendo Switch 2 bundle with a microSD Express card and a year of Expansion Pack access folded into that one number.

The storage card is the more straightforward half of the package. The Switch 2 ships with 256GB of internal storage, and The Verge says buyers are likely to need additional room eventually, since a growing game library otherwise means constantly managing what stays installed and what gets deleted, according to The Verge. Nobody strictly needs extra storage on day one, but a card that would otherwise cost $59 is a tangible add for anyone who plans to keep buying games.

The subscription is harder to size up in isolation. Its value depends entirely on how someone actually plays.

Nintendo Switch Online's base tier includes cloud save backups, online multiplayer access, and a library of classic NES, SNES, and Game Boy titles, per The Verge. That's the floor. Costco's bundle includes the tier above it.

The Expansion Pack adds libraries from the GameCube, Game Boy Advance, N64, and Virtual Boy, along with something more specific to Switch 2 owners: upgrade packs for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, The Verge reports. Those upgrade packs may matter most to owners who would otherwise buy them separately, though that's an inference about buyer behavior rather than something Nintendo or Costco has stated directly.

Buyers who don't use online play or retro libraries may place little value on the subscription, even though its sticker price stays identical either way. The bundle carries its clearest value for members who would otherwise pay for the card and the subscription on their own; for everyone else, the $108.99 figure is a ceiling, not a guarantee.

A handful of practical questions surround this offer, and the available reporting doesn't resolve them, so they're worth stating plainly rather than assuming an answer.

Because the deal is members-only, non-members would need to weigh Costco's membership cost before treating $499.99 as directly comparable to a standalone retail purchase. That cost isn't addressed in the reporting on this bundle, and it would need to be confirmed against Costco's own membership pricing rather than estimated here.

There's also the question of stacking. Buyers who already hold an active Expansion Pack subscription should check whether the included year extends their existing plan, layers on top of it, or applies some other way. The reporting doesn't specify, so that's a detail worth confirming with Costco directly before buying on the assumption that it stacks cleanly.

A related gap: the reporting doesn't say whether the subscription arrives as a redeemable code at checkout or gets tied automatically to whichever account activates the console. That's another detail buyers may want to confirm before purchase rather than assume either way.

The bundle's shelf life is similarly unclear. Nothing in the available reporting specifies how long Costco intends to run this exact combination, whether it survives past Nintendo's price increase, or what current stock levels look like. None of that implies scarcity. It just means those specifics haven't been confirmed, and treating this as a countdown deal isn't something the reporting supports.

Nintendo's increase is just weeks away, according to The Verge, which narrows the window for anyone weighing whether to buy now or wait. Before September 1, the bundle costs $50 more than the standalone console currently costs. On or after that date, the bundle price would match the announced standalone price, assuming Costco keeps the bundle at $499.99, according to The Verge.

That timing reframes the deal's logic. Right now, the $50 gap buys a storage card and a subscription tier with itemized value attached to them. If the bundle survives past September 1 at the same price, that gap disappears entirely, and the extras stop being an add-on to a premium and become the entire reason to pick the bundle over a bare console.

Whether Costco continues offering this exact combination past that date, and at what stock levels, isn't addressed in the reporting available so far. Anyone weighing the $50 premium against a September deadline is, for now, working with half the picture.