BODY: If you've been checking the Japanese eShop every morning lately, you're not imagining things. Nintendo has settled into a rhythm of dumping hundreds of new discounts onto the storefront day after day, and the September 24 batch brought roughly 400 more Switch and Switch 2 titles into the pile.
The headliner is Final Fantasy Tactics – The Ivalice Chronicles at ¥3,480 (40% off), a notable cut for a remaster that only arrived last September. Square Enix has historically been slow to discount its Ivalice properties, so seeing the definitive edition of a franchise touchstone at nearly half price inside its first year is a real shift.
Ubisoft is here too, with Assassin's Creed Shadows down to ¥3,932 (45% off) — still one of the more demanding games running on Switch 2 hardware — and The Rogue Prince of Persia slashed 70% to ¥1,254. On the indie side, Celeste falls to ¥540 (75% off) and Dave the Diver to ¥1,375 (45% off).
Perhaps the most interesting inclusion for overseas readers is Magical Girl Witch Trials (魔法少女ノ魔女裁判) at ¥2,800, a modest 20% off but the first meaningful discount the Switch port has seen since its July 9 release.
One practical warning: there is no single expiry date. End dates vary title by title, so the only reliable move is to check each game's individual store page rather than assuming everything runs to the same deadline.
The insider take
The daily-drip sale format is a distinctly Japanese eShop habit, and it's less about generosity than about keeping the storefront's "Sale" tab churning so it stays a daily destination — the same logic that drives Japanese retail's endless limited-time campaigns. Worth flagging for importers: the Switch version of Magical Girl Witch Trials remains Japanese-only. Acacia's English localization is a free Steam update targeted for late 2026, and no international Switch release has been announced, so a Japanese eShop account gets you the discount but not the language. That gap between "available in Japan" and "playable in English" is the recurring trap with these sales.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).