Today’s best deals: Nintendo Switch Online bundle, $1 Xbox Game Pass, and more

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It's Wednesday, which means the time has come for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best deals from around the web includes a bundle at Best Buy that gives you a 128GB SanDisk microSD card at no extra cost when you buy a 12-month Nintendo Switch Online Family Membership at its usual price of $35. We've seen this offer a couple of times before, but if you want to top up your subscription and could use more storage space on your Switch anyway, this deal is a roughly $20 savings. You should see the bundle after adding the Switch Online membership to your cart.

As a refresher, Switch Online is Nintendo's equivalent of Sony's PlayStation Plus or Microsoft's Xbox Live Gold. It's generally not as essential as those services are on their respective consoles—nor is it as generous at doling out bonus perks like free monthly games—but it's cheaper, it's required to use the online multiplayer modes of games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and it still nets you access to a bundle of mostly worthwhile SNES and NES games.

If you only need the service for yourself, you can just get an individual 12-month subscription for about $20, but the Family Membership here covers up to eight different Switch users in a designated "family group," so it's a better value for those buying in bulk. It's also worth noting that this deal does not include the service's "Expansion Pack" add-on, which starts at $50 a year and includes perks like DLC tracks for Mario Kart 8 and emulation apps for classic Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis games.

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from arstechnica.