Nintendo Switch 2, Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition
Resell Vault called Nintendo Switch 2, Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition in its Discord on 8 September 2026. It cost £429.99 at retail and resold for £485 to £525, a margin of £55 to £95 a unit before fees.
Called 8 September 2026 · #misc-alerts · Resell Vault Drops
- In · retail
- £429.99 console · accessories from £34.99
- Out · eBay UK solds
- £485-525
- Margin · per unit
- +£55-95
- ROI · at the low end
- 13%+
Why we called it
A numbered anniversary console is normally the cleanest call in the book, and this one still made money, just less of it than the sell guide hoped. The 40th Anniversary Switch 2 went up at £429.99 with a £575-700 guide. First confirmed solds landed at £525 on 12 September, and by the 27th the real, confirmed range had walked to £485-516.70.
The honest sentence from the recap belongs here verbatim in spirit: it bricked way lower than the estimates, and it was still profit. Roughly £55-95 a console before fees is a thin margin on £430 of capital, and that trade-off is exactly what the follow-up said.
The quiet winners were the accessories. The Pro Controller at £79.99 confirmed at £110-130. The carry case at £34.99 did £50-68. The Ocarina of Time foil at £55 printed £110-115, the best multiple of the whole drop. Small capital, doubled.
The edge
What members knew before everyone else worked it out.
- Console £429.99 against confirmed solds of £485-525, well under the £575-700 guide.
- Pro Controller £79.99 to a confirmed £110-130.
- Carry case £34.99 to £50-68, the sleeper of the drop.
- Ocarina of Time foil £55 to £110-115, the best multiple on the page.
- The 27 September re-comp used confirmed sold prices only, and revised the console down in public.
How it played out
- 8 Sep
The call
Console and all accessory SKUs posted with per-item guides ahead of the drop.
- 12 Sep
First prints
Console confirms at £525. Accessories start clearing their bands immediately.
- 27 Sep
The honest re-comp
Real confirmed solds: £485-516.70 on the console. Bricked under the guide, still profitable, said plainly.
The takeaway
The console made less than hoped and the £55 foil doubled, which is a better lesson than a clean win: on bundle drops the accessories are not an afterthought, they are frequently the trade.
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