BODY: If your Switch wishlist has been quietly piling up, June 4 is a good day to check it. Nintendo's eShop has rolled out a sweeping new sale spanning both Nintendo Switch 2 and the original Nintendo Switch, with roughly 390 titles getting price cuts in one go.
The headline deal is Street Fighter 6, which drops to half price. Capcom's flagship fighter has become a fixture of the competitive scene, so a 50%-off entry point is an easy sell for anyone who skipped it at launch โ and a timely one, with the game continuing to add characters and content well into its life cycle.
Capcom is well represented elsewhere, too. Multiple entries in the long-running Resident Evil series are marked down, giving newcomers a cheap on-ramp to survival horror and giving lapsed fans a reason to revisit Raccoon City and beyond on the go.
Beyond the big franchises, the sale sweeps in a popular post-apocalyptic adventure title described as a "terminal-world clone ADV," alongside hundreds of other discounted games across genres. With around 390 titles on offer, the lineup leans heavily on catalog depth rather than a handful of marquee names โ the kind of broad markdown event that rewards browsing.
The insider take
From Tokyo, these mega eShop sales have become a rhythm of the platform, and the timing here is telling: pricing deals across both Switch 2 and original Switch signals Nintendo's careful balancing act during the generational handoff. Rather than abandoning the massive installed base of the first Switch, Nintendo is keeping its digital storefront unified, so a single sale serves both old and new hardware owners. For Japanese players especially, these eShop events are where huge back catalogs finally get bought โ the discounts do the work that physical bargain bins used to.
Originally reported by AUTOMATON (Japanese).