BODY: If your Switch backlog wasn't intimidating enough, Nintendo just made it worse. On July 15, a fresh eShop sale went live covering roughly 440 titles for both Nintendo Switch 2 and the original Switch โ a sprawling lineup that mixes big-name RPGs, cult favorites, and long-tail indies into one very tempting checkout page.
The headliner is Atlus's Persona 3 Reload, the acclaimed remake of the 2006 PS2 classic, now marked down 40%. It's a strong entry point for anyone who bounced off the older Persona titles, pairing modern combat quality-of-life with the series' signature blend of dungeon-crawling and high-school social simulation.
Several other games are hitting their lowest prices ever. Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, Level-5's cozy life-and-adventure hybrid, drops to a new record low, as does Like a Dragon: Ishin! โ released in Japan under the Ryu ga Gotoku banner โ the samurai-era spin-off of the Yakuza franchise. For players who missed these at launch, this is the cheapest they've been.
With around 440 discounts running simultaneously, the sale rewards patience over impulse. Beyond the marquee names, the catalog is packed with mid-tier and indie titles that rarely go on sale, making it worth scrolling well past the front page before committing.
The insider take
From Tokyo, these mega-sales read as more than clearance events โ they're Nintendo's soft-launch strategy for building a Switch 2 library that leans heavily on backward compatibility. By discounting original Switch titles alongside Switch 2 releases, Nintendo keeps early adopters spending while the native Switch 2 lineup is still ramping up. Titles like Persona 3 Reload and the Ryu ga Gotoku series also signal how central Japanese RPGs and Sega/Atlus catalogs remain to the platform's identity โ these franchises move hardware here in a way Western blockbusters often don't.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).