Nintendo gets into holiday spirit, offers rare discounts on Switch eShop fare

It's not Christmas yet, but Nintendo is already wishing Switch owners a Merry Yoshi-mas via a Thanksgiving-timed eShop sale. (credit: Nintendo)

While you'll want to stay tuned to our regular Dealmaster guides for this week's range of Thanksgiving-timed sales, we wanted to quickly point out a rarity in the digital-gaming world: a legitimately good (and huge) range of discounts on Nintendo Switch downloads.

Wednesday saw the big N unveil a whopping 47-game sale, chock full of recent, popular, and well-reviewed fare, for its Nintendo Switch eShop. The sale is valid between now and November 28. The Switch eShop has never received this many simultaneous discounts on well-reviewed games, and, while some of the discounts are a little paltry, most are surprisingly good.

Here's a slightly sorted list of the "best" discounted games, with quality and discount considered as ranking factors. In particular, the ports listed here are all solid Switch fare that we've tested. (We're picky about good Switch ports, as I've discussed at length.)

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