For most Nintendo players, a Bandai Namco sale is a calendar event. The publisher’s back catalogue spans beloved anime fighters, cult-status JRPGs, and the chaotically charming Katamari series, all of which rarely see steep discounts outside these publisher-specific windows. The one that went live this week on the Nintendo eShop is among the more significant, with over 30 titles across Switch and Switch 2 marked down through June 22, 2026 — several at prices the publisher has never previously offered.
Tales of Berseria, one of the more acclaimed entries in Bandai Namco’s long-running Tales role-playing series, has not appeared at this price point before. Tales of Xillia Remastered, the re-release that brought back one of the PlayStation 3 era’s most emotionally resonant JRPGs in updated form, is similarly discounted to $23.99 from its standard $39.99 price. These are not the minor percentage-off adjustments that populate the eShop on any given week. According to Nintendo Everything, multiple titles in the sale are hitting all-time lows.
The timing matters. Nintendo’s Switch 2 — which launched earlier this year and has been the focus of a wave of new announcements, including the reveals covered in the June 2026 Nintendo Direct — supports backward compatibility with the original Switch library. That means the Switch-labeled titles in this sale are fully playable on the newer hardware, and Bandai Namco has structured the promotion to reflect that reality. Little Nightmares 3, the only native Switch 2 title in the bundle, is down to $27.99 from $39.99.
What makes this particular moment a stronger entry point than the average publisher promotion is the depth of the Dragon Ball section. Dragon Ball FighterZ — still regarded by the competitive fighting community as one of the best anime fighters ever made — drops to $9.59 from $59.99, an 84 percent reduction. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, which has been updated with content for years, is available for $4.99. Dragon Ball: The Breakers, the asymmetric multiplayer title that received a quieter reception, is down to $2.99. That last one is a reasonable gamble at that price for anyone who has ever been curious about a game where seven survivors try to escape a single all-powerful Dragon Ball villain.
The Katamari entries require separate consideration. Once Upon a Katamari, the most recent full release in Keita Takahashi’s rolling-objects series, was widely seen as a return to form after the series spent years in dormancy. It carries a $23.99 price in the sale against a $39.99 standard listing. We Love Katamari Reroll + Royal Reverie, the remastered version of what many players consider the franchise’s high point, is marked down to $7.49 from $29.99. That is a striking offer for a game whose original PlayStation 2 release remains a touchstone of early 2000s Japanese game design.
The anime and manga adaptation section follows the pattern of most Bandai Namco promotions: substantial cuts on titles that once carried full retail prices, mixed with modest reductions on newer releases. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is $9.99 from $49.99. Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash, which drew mixed reviews on release but carries appeal for fans of the property, is $14.99 from $59.99. Spy x Anya: Operation Memories, the lifestyle simulation built around the Spy x Family cast, is $19.99 from $49.99 — a category of tie-in game that rarely appears at a price that invites genuine experimentation.
Nintendo’s own multiplayer-themed promotions have been running in parallel this week on the European eShop, with a separate sale through June 21 that covers more than 200 titles from various publishers, according to Nintendo Life. The Bandai Namco promotion sits alongside that broader wave, giving players across both consoles an unusually large selection of reduced software during what has been one of the more active periods for Nintendo news in 2026 — a period that also included the Summer Game Fest showcase and a packed Nintendo Direct.
The broader structural point worth noting is what this sale reveals about how Bandai Namco is managing its older Switch library in the Switch 2 transition period. Rather than letting its back catalogue quietly age out of relevance on the older hardware, the publisher is aggressively discounting titles that retain their core gameplay value while benefiting from the Switch 2’s backward-compatibility architecture. Freedom Wars Remastered, which arrived earlier this year for $39.99, is already down to $15.99. God Eater 3, one of the more underappreciated cooperative action titles on the platform, is $9.59 from $59.99.
Gundam Breaker 4, the plastic-kit-robot-assembly action game that drew niche-but-devoted coverage on release, is $19.79 from $59.99. Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival, the drum-rhythm game that has carved out a consistent audience on Nintendo platforms, is $19.99 from $49.99. For players who have been waiting for an opportunity to build out a Japanese-publisher library at reduced cost, this sale covers several titles that have not returned to this price range since their initial launch windows.
The sale ends June 22, 2026. What it does not answer — and what Bandai Namco has not addressed — is whether the company’s current Switch 2 release strategy will eventually produce native Switch 2 editions of its back catalogue titles, as some competing publishers have done. For now, the backward-compatibility pathway is the only one available, and this week’s sale is the clearest indication yet that Bandai Namco intends to use it.
