BODY: If you keep a Japanese Nintendo Account on the side, this is the week to check your wishlist. Nintendo's Japanese eShop opened a fresh sale on September 23 spanning roughly 290 titles across Nintendo Switch 2 and the original Switch โ one of the broader third-party discount rounds since the Switch 2's launch year got underway.
The headline entry is Dragon Quest VII Reimagined, Square Enix's ground-up rebuild of the 2000 PlayStation epic, which arrived earlier this year and has now hit its lowest price to date. That is a notably quick markdown for a Dragon Quest mainline remake, a series Square Enix historically holds at full price in Japan for a long stretch.
Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered โ known to Japanese players simply as "Minsaga" โ also set a new floor. The 2022 remaster of the 2005 PS2 remake of the 1992 Super Famicom original is about as deep a cut as the SaGa series offers, and its reputation for opaque, free-form design makes a discount the traditional on-ramp for curious newcomers.
Rounding out the notable entries, Little Nightmares III is going for close to its best price yet, less than a year after Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco shipped the co-op-capable third installment. AUTOMATON's roundup highlights a selection of the roughly 290 discounted titles rather than the full list, which is browsable directly in the eShop.
The insider take
Timing here is not accidental. The sale lands the day before Tokyo Game Show opens its doors at Makuhari Messe, when Japanese gaming attention is at its annual peak and publishers want back catalogues visible while players are being sold on what's next. It also catches the tail of the Silver Week holiday stretch. One practical caveat for readers abroad: the Japanese eShop is walled off by account region, so these yen prices require a Japan-region Nintendo Account and Japanese payment method โ and Japanese storefront pricing does not map cleanly onto Western sales, which run on separate schedules with different discount depths. Western players will likely see their own versions of these markdowns, but not necessarily this week, and not necessarily this deep.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).