It's not long now until Nintendo's E3 Direct broadcast, and Nintendo of America has confirmed that a range of Switch Digital Deals will follow the broadcast on 15th June, rolling out at around 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK / 7pm CEST. It is worth noting that we shouldn't assume, at this stage, that territories like Europe will have the same deals, but we hope that'll be the case.
There'll be discounts of up to 50%, and we imagine it will be a curated list of some of the best and highest profile eShop titles.
There's also the hope, of course, that the Direct broadcast will include some 'out now' eShop releases, which has certainly happened in past years. Fingers crossed!
So, be ready to check that wishlist after the E3 Direct next week.
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Does this mean we can assume the Direct will be around the same time of day?
Man it's a bad time to get laid off
@Bon_Kurei 6/15, 9am PT - already announced
Nice! Let's see if I get something.
Hoping for some new releases too. Maybe a big indie game like Hollow Knight Silksong? Who knows! (not gonna happen, I know XD)
Damn it I just used my Leftover's.
Sounds good.
I wasn't planning on making any purchases until after E3 anyway.
Maybe I can finally get Mario Kart for $40 or less—been waiting a loong time!
excellent, the games will now be priced the same as base.com and shoptonet hopefully there maybe some good deals to tempt me?? PS role on TMNT Shredders Revenge
Oh wait its after E3 oh ok i'm good. I don't think I could buy a nintendo game with 8$ anyway LOL.
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Maybe I'll finally buy LM3, DQ XI or Astral Chain, all of which I would've bought at launch if they came out in previous console gens.
Should call this promotion the "Still cheaper in the shops sale"
Looking for some snk games. Hope they get discounted.
Ooh 50% 😒
If there's actually 50% off a first party title I'll be shocked.
@SonOfStayPuft love that army term (rocking horse sh*t )
@cmbaum I believe Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has never gone below $47.99( 20% off). If they discount more than that, it will be a great time to buy. If they only do 20% off, that could be as good as it will ever get. Mario Kart 8 is amazing.<33 (If you didn't already own it on Wii U)
Mario Kart 7(3DS) is still full price, if you haven't watched it's price. It never went on sale, or barely ever got a discount on eshop, as far as I've seen. If you know any or all of this, you can disregard
@SonOfStayPuft tbf that game has been on sale a lot and because its made by ubisoft it get a pretty decent sale, in one of the eshop sales this year I got the game for £9
Can they just get on with announcing the new Switch model already? It's starting to get tedious now. Are they seriously going to reveal their game content before the new Switch model? What does that say about the quality of their E3 presentation...?
Must...resist....buying new games
Time to grow the backlog!
I got a $50 eshop card on my birthday thats been sitting on my account balance for 2 months waiting for something like this around E3
And no word on when it ends? That's usually the more crucial info to me.
I'm watching to see if Super Monkey Balls gets a discount. I haven't seen it go on sale since I started watching 6+ months ago.
@WoomyNNYes unless they announce Mario Kart 9!...dare to dream
Knowing Nintendo....95 mobile games no one plays and 5 first party games that should have had a price reduction a few years ago
@AcridSkull the 0 was a typo hahaha
Everything on sale 1st party-wise will probably be stuff we already have, so don't get your hopes up.
@getyourak Thank you!
Paper Mario and NSMBUD might be worth it at half off. I have NSMBU but I don't have the Luigi levels.
@SonOfStayPuft
It's on sale pretty much all the time:
https://psprices.com/region-de/game/1732051/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle
https://psprices.com/region-gb/game/1732052/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle
https://psprices.com/region-us/game/1713582/mario-rabbids-kingdom-battle
@gergelyv I'm pretty sure that was the joke.
Will have my eshop wallet ready!
Hoping for xenoblade chronicles 2!
There was an announcement about this sale and the Direct on the Switch News channel (whatever it's called) this morning and was shocked that Nintendo would announce a sale an entire week in advance. No mention of being able to watch the Direct live on the Switch but there was a HUGE qr code to scan to get to it.
Don't think there's anything out on Switch I still need but as always I'll take a look. A sale on a NO Family membership would be nice, ours ends the end of the month.
@SonOfStayPuft I have seen it on sale a few times. I remember buying the gold edition for like $13
I'm having cataract surgery that day, so I'll be too busy recovering and hopefully -fingers crossed - playing and FINALLY actually seeing what some of the games I already own rrally look like. It's been a real bummer playing games lately. Everything looks like an 8-bit game played on a TV with its color saturation turned down to 10% and Vaseline smeared liberally across the entire screen.
I don't think there is a first party game that I would be willing to pay $29.99 for. I already own Zelda, Mario kart, smash etc. Hopefully there will be a few good indies on sale.
@Snatcher Part Time UFO BABY!!!!!!
I need quite a few games on my backlog to go on sale, so fingers crossed.
"There'll be discounts of up to 50%."
First party games? Unheard of and highly unlikely, unfortunately
If I'm wrong I'll be really happy
This will only be good for indie games and if you really want a digital version of a first party game (and likely only save a piddly amount). Otherwise it's just cheaper to buy physical.
I just purchased a couple games but can't actually download them, just getting constant error messages. Believe it's update related. Won't be buying more until this is resolved.
Up to 50%. So the only game that'll be half price is the game you really don't want, right? The games you really want will be 20% off at best.
Nintendo Switch Selects finally? It would make sense to finally permanently drop the price on games like Arms, 1-2- Switch and even Splatoon 2 prior to 3's release. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen but you have to think that it will happen eventually.
I have a nice chunk of eShop funds from my recent birthday. Hope some of my wishlist goes on sale!
GB on NSO
Pokémon Red - B/W "Available Now"
Super Mario Land 1 and 2 "Available Now"
Link's Awakening "Available Now"
Metroid 2 "Available Now"
@thefly0810 Agreed!
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