Topic: Games that are often on sale on the eShop?

Hello,

so I have quite a dumb request but perhaps someone knows..

Do you know of a game that gets frequently discounted? Like there is sale one week, the sale ends and another week the same game is on sale again.

I need this to test something.

Thanks 🙏

Various shovelware devs run constant sales.

@nemecek_f If you look at the site Deku Deals it shows you the history of when games were on sale and the price. For example...

Hellblade was last on sale in April 2020... https://www.dekudeals.com/items/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice

Whilst Jurassic Park Evolution has been on sale three times this year... https://www.dekudeals.com/items/jurassic-world-evolution-comp...

I always see the mega man collections on sale

Thanks everyone!

I should have enough games for now In addition to these mentioned I also noticed Toki Tori games are often discounted.

Cars 3 has been on sale every single day for about 6 years now for about 80-90 % off. It’s usually 7 dollars CA, a handful of dollars American I assume. 4 bucks?

i saw pikmin 4 on sale and it released in the day where u can watch the new barbie movie (yesterday)

final fantasy 8 has an extremely regular pattern of sale for a couple weeks then no sale for a few weeks and repeat. Honestly a ton of the Square Enix games do. I always wondered if Nintendo has a rule where you can't be on sale for more than a particular percentage of the time.

What are you working on?

Blasphemous is your answer.

Full Metal Furies often drops to £5 or less. One of the best games I've played too, especially co-op.

On my wishlist, there are some titles I consistently see on sale for the same price cuts.
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is frequently 75% off (£34.99 -> £8.74).
Neon Abyss is often 70% off (£14.99 -> £4.79).
The Longing is often 25% off (£13.49 -> £10.11).

The site is a good way to browse for sales, there's some good stuff that sometimes gets pretty heavy price cuts.

@Ironcore in my app SwitchBuddy I was working on notifications for price drops and wanted to test it "for real" seems to be working

Cars 3 is an interesting example; I glanced at it when it wasn't on sale. According to deku it is constantly going back and forth between sale amd non sale. eShop sales seem to have a maximum amount of time, so there may be some short cool-down in-between. No clue if it depends on country.

@nemecek_f oh nice! Good luck with the app. I look forward to when you launch it.

@Ironcore It is actually out since April 2021, but I am continually working on new features and additions 🙂 I do the iOS version (https://apps.apple.com/app/switchbuddy/id1563251210) and my friend makes the Android one - but this one doesn't yet have the price checking.

In addition to what "MarioBrickLayer" said, if you are willing to sign-up, DekuDeals is really helpful in keeping a clear overview of the games you are interested in. I think they send you an email everytime a game (or more games if they went on sale at the same time) on your wishlist go(es) on sale (both digitally and physically) and a weekly email with all the games that went on sale in the eshop that week.

@nemecek_f awe nice one. Downloaded.

My guess is they don't want publishers to use artificial sales to achieve permanent residency on the eShop's Great Deals page.

Goblin sword is on sale every time i open the eshop (admittedly something I try to avoid since it runs like garbage)