BODY: If it feels like the Nintendo eShop has been running a permanent sale lately, that's because it basically has. On October 22, Nintendo added another roughly 630 discounted titles for Switch 2 and Switch — the latest wave in a rolling series of drops that has turned October into a near-continuous bargain hunt for Japanese storefront users.
The headline item is Lies of P: Complete Edition on Switch 2, down 15% to ¥6,783 (about $45) in what is the soulslike's first discount on the platform. Round8 Studio's Pinocchio-gone-wrong action RPG has been a steady word-of-mouth success in Japan, where its Bloodborne-adjacent design and Belle Époque setting found an audience well beyond the usual FromSoftware crowd.
Monster Hunter Stories 3 is the other big draw, cut 30% to ¥6,293 (roughly $42) — matching its lowest price to date. That's a notably aggressive discount for a first-party-adjacent Capcom release still this fresh, and a reminder of how quickly the publisher now moves on digital pricing. Bethesda also joined in: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered takes its debut 20% cut to ¥4,840 (about $32).
Further down the list, the genuinely cheap stuff is where the value lives. Gas Station Simulator hits a new all-time low at ¥874 (roughly $6) for 65% off, anti-gravity racer Redout 2 lands at ¥790 (70% off), and Amnesia: Collection bottoms out at ¥440 with an 80% cut. Garden Life rounds things out at ¥1,380. End dates vary title by title, so there's no single deadline to work against.
The insider take
What outsiders often miss is that the Japanese eShop runs on a different rhythm than Western storefronts. Rather than a few tentpole seasonal sales, Nintendo and its Japanese partners drip-feed overlapping promotions almost weekly, with publishers staggering their own end dates inside them. The practical result is that Japanese players have learned to never buy at list price — and that a "lowest ever" tag here carries real weight, since physical game trade-in culture at shops like Surugaya and Book-Off still competes hard with digital. Note too that these prices apply to Japanese accounts only; the same titles on North American or European eShops follow separate schedules entirely.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).