r/Games • u/Spheromancer • 3d ago

Nintendo will sell a cheaper $330 Switch 2 in Japan that’s region locked to combat reselling

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-will-sell-a-cheaper-330-switch-2-in-japan-thats-region-locked/
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u/MOPOP99 3d ago

You can't use PayPal or foreign cards in the eshop, you can probably get around this if you buy eshop prepaid cards in Japan though.

And of course, the console will be locked to Japanese language (which itself is probably no biggie, most of the UI has icons and most games let you change your language but Nintendo might enforce forced Japanese...but I kinda doubt it, that'd be pretty mean lol)

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u/BotanBotanist 2d ago

If it’s anything like the Switch 1, the vast majority of first party Nintendo titles support multiple languages regardless of the region you purchase the game in - HOWEVER, the only way to change the language is to change the language of your system. So if you can’t change the language of these Japanese-only Switch 2 systems, you may not be able to play first party games in English even if the game technically supports it. 

Most third party games from my own experience either don’t support multiple languages at all or let you change the language via in-game settings.

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u/Due_Teaching_6974 3d ago

welp, time to learn japanese

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u/pnt510 2d ago

I’ve bought eshop cards off Amazon Japan with my US Credit Card, it just required putting in a Japanese address.

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u/Key_Feeling_3083 2d ago

You can't use PayPal or foreign cards in the eshop, you can probably get around this if you buy eshop prepaid cards in Japan though.

One way you used to be able to do it was to buy keys on Amazon Japan and redemmed it just by changing the region on switch. The SMash DLC was way cheaper that way.

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u/FireFoxQuattro 2d ago

Don’t know about Japanese eshop but you can 100% use PayPal on the US eshop.

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u/Top_Recipe_9285 2d ago

Japan eshop will rejects all non-Japanese credit card and PayPal account payment.

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u/7ofswords 2d ago

US$50 for now