BODY: If you keep a Japanese Nintendo Account on the side, this is a good week to check your wishlist. Nintendo has quietly topped up the download sale running on the Japanese Nintendo Store, and the new additions lean heavily on Capcom's courtroom back catalogue plus a few heavyweight Western RPGs.
The marquee bargains are the Ace Attorney collections. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (known in Japan as the Naruhodo Selection) drops from ¥2,990 to ¥990 — 66% off — while Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (the Odoroki Selection) falls from ¥5,990 to ¥2,995. The combined 123+456 collection is halved to ¥3,495, and Ace Attorney Investigations Collection goes from ¥4,990 to ¥2,994. Capcom's criminally overlooked Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective takes the steepest cut of all, down 67% to ¥986. All of those run until 11:59pm on November 12.
Bethesda is the other big name on the list. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is 20% off at ¥4,840, and the Skyrim Anniversary Edition Bundle is half price at ¥3,630 — available in both Switch and Switch 2 flavours. Rounding things out, Feral Interactive's port of Alien: Isolation is 24% off at ¥1,899. That trio expires earlier, on November 1.
Nintendo's own caveat is worth repeating: end dates vary title by title, so confirm the discounted price is actually showing on the store page before you commit.
The insider take
Japanese eShop pricing is its own ecosystem, and this sale is a neat snapshot of how it works. Capcom has discounted the Ace Attorney compilations so reliably over the past few years that Japanese players have effectively been trained to never buy them at list price — a ¥990 trilogy is now the expected price, not a surprise. The Bethesda inclusions tell a different story: with Switch 2 adoption climbing through 2026, publishers are using back-catalogue cuts to seed the new hardware's library while first-party releases dominate the release calendar. And remember these are region-locked deals tied to Japanese account regions, so Western fans watching enviously will need to wait for their own storefront's turn.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).