How to use PriceImp
PriceImp checks the price of every Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 game in 43 eShops twice a day and shows where each game is cheapest, in your currency. Here is what the settings do and how to get the most out of it.
Market: whose prices you see
The Market menu (in the header; on phones behind the settings button) decides which eShops the lists and the home page use. It only changes what you see here, never anything at Nintendo.
| Market | Lists show | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| All markets | Every game, at its cheapest price in any eShop, with that country's flag | Finding where a game is cheapest |
| One country | Only games sold in that eShop, at its price there; the currency switches to that country's own unless you picked one | Buying in one eShop only |
| โ My markets | Games sold in any of your eShops, each at the cheapest of them, with its flag | Buying in a few eShops you have accounts for |
With one country chosen, a game's page marks that country as "Your market" and says how much less the cheapest country asks, with a button to see how to buy there.
My markets
Most people can buy in a handful of eShops: their own, and those they have an account and Nintendo eShop cards for. Sign in and tick them on your account page (up to 12). The Market menu then starts with "โ My markets", and every list shows each game at the cheapest of your countries; the sale lists show the deepest sale among them. Your choice follows you to every device you sign in on.
Currency
Prices are converted at the day's reference exchange rates (European Central Bank and other public sources), so you can compare countries in one currency. "Original" in the currency menu shows every price in its eShop's own money. Prices are each eShop's own: most include VAT; Canada's eShop adds tax at checkout, so we add the 5% federal tax there, and US prices are before state sales tax, which the eShop adds at checkout. What you finally pay depends on how you pay: a Nintendo eShop card seller's price, or your bank's exchange rate.
Reading a game's page
- Cheapest today and every eShop that sells the game, cheapest first, with sale end dates.
- The lowest price so far: whether today's price is the lowest since we started tracking the game, otherwise the lowest price with its country and date; the chart shows the price history by country.
- Click any country for how to buy there: its price, the languages, and a button to the game in that eShop.
- Languages, download size, age rating, players and the Metacritic score, when we have them.
Wishlist and sale alerts
The โก on any game adds it to your wishlist, which shows each game at today's best price in your market. Without signing in it holds 10 games in this browser; signed in, 100 games on every device. Signed in, you can also switch on sale alerts: after a price refresh you get one mail listing the wishlisted games that went on sale or got cheaper, at the prices of your own market and currency. A game that was already on sale when you added it is mailed at its next sale.
My Games
"๏ผ I own it" on a game's page records it in My Games with the eShop you bought it in (or as a physical copy), and you can mark favourites and finished games. Knowing the eShop matters once your library is spread over countries: add-ons have to come from the same region as the game. The wishlist and My Games can be shared, read only, with up to 20 people who have an account here.
Signing in needs no password: you get a one-time link, and a 6-digit code for the browser that asked, by mail.
Country pages and guides
Each eShop country has a page with what it sells, its sales today, how often it is the cheapest and how to buy there. Buying from another country's eShop explains accounts, paying and playing step by step, and the questions and answers cover the rest.
Prices are collected from Nintendo's public eShop pages and can be late or wrong: check the price in the eShop before you buy. PriceImp is an independent site, not connected with Nintendo.