BODY: If you have been waiting for the Switch 2 version of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth to stop costing full price, the wait is over. Nintendo's eShop opened a fresh wave of discounts on November 4, adding roughly 370 Switch 2 and Switch titles to the storefront's running sale — and this batch is unusually heavy on recent, high-profile releases rather than the usual back catalogue filler.
The headline cuts are the Square Enix remake project pair. Both Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth are marked down steeply, which matters because Rebirth only arrived on Switch 2 this year as one of the platform's showcase third-party ports. Seeing it discounted this early is a notable break from Square Enix's historically slow price decay on mainline Final Fantasy titles.
Sega's Yakuza Kiwami 3 hits its lowest price to date in this round — the kind of record-low flag that Japanese storefront watchers track closely, since Sega tends to ratchet its floor down in visible steps rather than one dramatic plunge. Falcom's The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st, the full remake of the series' 2004 starting point, also appears among the discounted titles, giving newcomers a cheap entry into one of Japan's most intimidating RPG backlogs.
Beyond those, the roughly 370-title list spans the usual mix of major publisher output and smaller Japanese releases, with pricing that varies widely by title. As always with eShop sales, the window is finite, and the Switch 2 and Switch versions of multiplatform games are sometimes priced differently — worth checking which edition a discount actually applies to before buying.
The insider take
Japanese eShop sales run on a different rhythm than Steam's, and locals have learned to read them: AUTOMATON and similar outlets publish these roundups precisely because Nintendo's storefront is bad at surfacing what is actually new or at a historic low. The phrase 最安更新 — "new lowest price" — is doing real work in the original headline, because Japanese publishers like Sega and Falcom discount conservatively and a record low is treated as a buy signal rather than noise. The timing also fits a pattern: early November discounts set up the run toward year-end, when Switch hardware bundles and New Year spending push software sales hard. Anyone shopping the Japanese eShop from abroad should note that regional pricing and yen weakness can make these numbers look better than they are in local currency terms.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).