Nintendo Switch Summer Sale: Zelda, Hades 2 and Persona 5 Royal Discounted This Week Only

Nintendo’s eShop is running one of its rare first-party discount events this weekend, and gamers who missed it last week still have a chance to grab it before it ends. According to Shacknews, the Nintendo Summer Sale has one more week to run, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and several other in-house titles marked down alongside the usual rotating cast of third-party bargains on PlayStation and Xbox.

Why a Nintendo first-party sale is worth noticing

Nintendo has historically been stingy with discounts on its own catalogue, so a sale event that actually touches flagship Zelda and Fire Emblem games is notable on its own. Shacknews lists Breath of the Wild‘s Switch 2 edition at $48.99 (30% off), Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity at $41.99, Fire Emblem: Three Houses at $41.99, and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes also at $41.99, all part of the same Summer Sale banner.

Other headline cuts in the Switch lineup include Hades 2 on Switch 2 at $20.99, the original Hades at $7.49, Persona 5 Royal at $17.99, and Persona 3 Reload Digital Deluxe Edition for Switch 2 at $45.49. Anyone building out a Switch 2 library with recent ports will also find Split Fiction at $32.49, Star Wars Outlaws at $35.99 and Assassin’s Creed Shadows Premium Edition at $64.98, all discounted for Switch 2 specifically.

What it means for players

For players who upgraded to Switch 2 but never finished (or never started) Nintendo’s back catalogue, this is one of the few windows where the platform holder’s own games get meaningfully cheaper rather than relying entirely on third-party publishers to cut prices. It is also a reminder, as Shacknews notes, that Switch 1 titles remain fully playable on Switch 2, so bargains like Grand Theft Auto Trilogy: The Definitive Edition at $19.79 or Dark Souls Remastered at $19.99 aren’t locked out of the newer hardware.

The sale isn’t isolated to Nintendo’s own storefront either. Shacknews’ weekend roundup also flags PlayStation’s July Savings promotion, which includes Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut at $29.39, Horizon Forbidden West at $29.99 and Tekken 8 at $23.99, plus PlayStation Plus-exclusive freebies such as Grounded: Fully Yoked Edition and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. On Xbox, Game Pass members can pick up Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 at $20.99 and Session: Skate Sim at $11.99, alongside general storefront cuts on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and the Red Dead Redemption 1+2 bundle.

Prices, regions and what to check before buying

All the figures above come from Shacknews’ US listing, so they reflect the American eShop, PlayStation Store and Xbox storefronts rather than local pricing. Players in New Zealand and Australia should double-check the same titles on their regional storefronts, since Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft typically run equivalent but separately priced promotions in NZD and AUD rather than mirroring US discounts exactly.

It’s also worth remembering that Nintendo eShop sales, unlike Steam’s seasonal blowouts, tend to run for a fixed and often short window without much warning before they close. Shacknews’ report frames this specific event as being in its final week, so anyone eyeing the Zelda or Fire Emblem discounts shouldn’t assume there’s time to wait for a bigger cut later in the year.

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Why it matters

Discount events like this matter beyond the individual savings because they signal how each platform holder is managing its back catalogue heading into the back half of 2026. Nintendo discounting its own first-party output, even briefly, suggests a willingness to move older Switch 1 software alongside the growing wave of Switch 2 enhanced editions, rather than treating legacy titles as untouchable at full price indefinitely.

For cross-platform shoppers, the overlapping PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo sales this particular weekend also make it a reasonable moment to compare where a specific game is cheapest before committing, especially for multiplatform releases like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 or Warhammer 40K: Darktide, which appear across more than one storefront’s current promotions.

Source: Shacknews.