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Pokemon Legends: Z-A Hits $44.99 on Switch 2 for Prime Day

Amazon has cut Pokemon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch 2 to $44.99 — a 36% drop from its $69.99 list price and the lowest it has ever been.

Pokemon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch 2 is at its lowest price yet, but only if you have an Amazon Prime membership.

As of June 24, Amazon is selling the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Pokemon Legends: Z-A for $44.99, down from its standard $69.99 — a $25 markdown that price tracker camelcamelcamel confirms is a record low. The discount is a Prime Day exclusive, meaning a Prime subscription is required to unlock it. The Switch 2 Edition is not simply the same game with a new label: it runs at a higher frame rate and resolution than the standard Switch version, which matters in a game built entirely around a single dense city.

That city — Lumiose City, the Kalos region hub from Pokemon X and Y — is the whole game. Wild zones, shops, a nightly ranked battle mode called the Z-A Royale, and Rogue Mega-Evolved Pokemon are all packed into one urban setting, a structural gamble that paid off. The real-time combat in particular drew strong reviews for rethinking mechanics the series had coasted on for years.

At $44.99, this is a reasonable entry point for a game that launched at a premium price on premium hardware — though the Prime membership requirement is its own ongoing cost that the discount math tends to gloss over.

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