More than three years after its original launch on Nintendo Switch, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition has been rereleased. Notably, the MSRP for the new physical edition is $30, half the price of the original and the digital version on the eShop. Collectors will be even more pleased by Rockstar’s decision to put all three games on the Switch game card this time. You can buy GTA: The Trilogy’s new Switch physical edition at Amazon.
$30 | New 2025 edition
Amazon is the only major US retailer with a store page for the new edition, but we’d expect more stores to list it soon. At this time, Amazon has a broad delivery estimate of one to two months, but this will likely change. Amazon is typically conservative with these estimates, and the current window probably stems from not having any units on hand just yet.
Retailers, including Amazon, still have the old edition on their storefronts, so make sure you buy the right version. The old edition has a text box next to the ESRB rating that reads “Download required. See back.” The new edition drops that disclaimer, as it no longer requires an additional download from the eShop.
The original physical version only included two of the games on the game card, forcing players to download Vice City from the eShop. With Vice City and updates for each game, Switch players typically needed to download close to 10GB of data from the eShop.
We can’t think of another situation quite like this one for a Nintendo Switch release, especially when you consider the new, better physical edition also happens to be half the price of the old one.
GTA: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition includes three classic Grand Theft Auto games from the PlayStation 2 era: GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas. The collection had some major performance and visual issues at launch, and many of those problems remained unfixed until Rockstar overhauled the experience on consoles last fall. It’s by no means perfect for any console, but it is in a substantially better state than it was at launch.
It’s unclear if the price of the digital edition will receive a permanent price drop to $30 on Nintendo Switch. At this time, it’s one of the rare Switch games with a higher MSRP on the eShop than the physical edition.
