Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave arrived on Switch 2 as the first entry in the series to carry an $80 price tag for boxed copies, with the digital version set at $70. Shortly after launch on September 17th, shoppers found a way to knock roughly $10 off through Walmart, and the trick that made it stick involved adding a single banana to the cart.
Quick answer: Apply code FAST30 or SAVE3X at Walmart checkout for $10 off. If it doesn’t apply, switch the order to pickup, and if that still fails, add one banana to your cart before applying the code.
How the Walmart discount was applied
You knew it worked when the $10 came off the order total at checkout. Some shoppers said they could then remove the banana and keep the discount attached to the cart, though results on that varied.
Why the banana was the key
The codes were not general-purpose game discounts. They were designed to reduce produce orders worth $35 or more. For reasons that were never officially explained, that threshold logic also recognized certain Nintendo games, so a qualifying cart triggered the $10 reduction. Adding a banana pushed the order into the produce-eligible state the code was looking for, which is why a piece of fruit unlocked savings on a full-price Switch 2 title.
Because the trick keyed off produce, it was not limited to Fire Emblem. Shoppers used the same method on other Nintendo releases, including Donkey Kong Bananza and Kirby and the Forgotten Lands.
Current status of the deal
The workaround spread quickly enough to strain Walmart’s inventory in two directions. The retailer’s listing for single bananas began showing as out of stock for online shipping, and Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave itself dropped to low stock, then sold out at points across launch week. Walmart’s site also had trouble returning results for fruit searches around the same time.
The banana method is most likely no longer active. The out-of-stock banana page appears to have been used to shut the loophole, so treat the steps above as a record of how it worked rather than a live offer.
Even with the exploit closed, the physical edition stayed in high demand throughout launch week, going in and out of stock at multiple retailers while the game topped the eShop best-seller list. Whether that reflects strong appetite for boxed copies or a limited initial print run, the banana chapter stands as one of the stranger ways players trimmed the cost of an $80 game.
