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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