Bandai Namco Switch Sale Slashes Tales, Little Nightmares 3
There’s a quiet alchemy to eShop sales in the Switch 2 era: cut the price of a Switch game and you’ve just cut the price of a Switch 2 game, no new SKU required. Bandai Namco’s August sale is the cleanest proof yet — Tales of Graces f Remastered drops to $15.99, Little Nightmares 3 to $19.99, and both are new lows on a roster spanning three Tales remasters, two My Hero One’s Justice games, and a Taiko no Tatsujin double feature.
Nearly everything carries a Switch label, but Switch 2 plays all of it through backwards compatibility, and Little Nightmares 3 is even flagged for the newer hardware outright in the store. The sale closes August 10, so the real question isn’t which platform gets the deal — it’s which discounts deserve your card’s space.
Your Switch 2 Just Got a Backwards-Compatible Discount
Bandai Namco only calls out Little Nightmares 3 as a Switch 2 title here, and that technicality is exactly why this sale matters more than it looks. The rest of the roster — Tales of Graces f Remastered, Freedom Wars Remastered, the My Hero One’s Justice pair — is standard Switch software, and standard Switch software runs on Switch 2 out of the box. You get launch-window-worthy prices on the newest Nintendo hardware without waiting for Switch 2-native re-releases or paying a new-console markup.
For anyone who’s been watching the eShop’s Switch 2 tab stay frustratingly thin, this is the reminder that the library is already there — it’s just wearing a Switch label, the same reason eShop fire sales read as Switch 2 shopping lists.
Tales at $16, Taiko at $20: Deals That Earn Their Keep
The headliner is Tales of Graces f Remastered at $15.99 — 60% off a $39.99 game, and roughly 60 hours of JRPG for less than the price of a movie night out. Suspend-resume is the good-cop partner to a battle system this deep: grab three fights on the train, put it down, come back. Freedom Wars Remastered at $11.99 is the sleeper pick for portable purists — a remaster of a game born on PlayStation Vita, whose hunt-and-craft loop was designed around playing anywhere. Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival at $19.99 turns any commute into a drum stage, while Little Nightmares 3 at half price is the one properly Switch 2-flagged cut worth grabbing before the deadline. Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream at $17.99 is the deepest discount on the list — 70% off — and the kind of big-budget download that makes a spare microSD card the real accessory deal of the day.
Skip the My Hero One’s Justice pair unless you’re a completionist — the first at $5 is a fun curiosity, but the sequel at $10 is the only one that justifies your time. Spend the difference on Tales of Graces f and Little Nightmares 3, and you’ve built a summer library for well under $60. That’s the quiet victory of a backwards-compatible generation: the discount rack is already deep — Koei Tecmo ran its own new-low sale the same week — and your Switch 2 can play all of it.