By default, you’ll have to be brave to download Bravely Default.
Square Enix’s newest RPG title has officially launched on the North American 3DS eShop. Aside from paying the standard price of $39.99 (excluding sales tax), players will also have to cough up 26,498 Blocks of storage on their SD (Secure Digital) card. That’s roughly 3.24 GB of jam-packed, dynamite data — crowning Bravely Default as the number one largest 3DS eShop title to date.
For comparison sake, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds weighs in at 5,440 Blocks, Kid Icarus: Uprising calls for 12,906 free Blocks, and Pokémon X and Pokémon Y each command 13,927 Blocks. Even Resident Evil: Revelations doesn’t require as much digital real estate at 25,795 Blocks.
It's for the better, though.
Players will have to find new ways to buy from the Japanese eShop after Nintendo announcement.
Not something I got into, but if say you're in the UK and you're using a US game, you'll need a US eShop account. Wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo is trying to stop people using games from other regions, more so people who buy Japanese and US games on card because they're download/code in a box only in the UK as an example. Not sure if the Switch 2 will be multi-region, but this sounds like a stepping stone to cut back on people playing import games and maybe even making the Switch 2 region locked.
Thank God for PlayAsia and eBay. Nearly everything I want has a physical version with English subtitles. Just can't find most of them in retail stores, lol
Supposedly this comes with the fact NSO will be receiving an 11 to 25% price increase in "some" countries
There are emails being sent out over it
I have yet to see an email though (UK resident)
Nintendo has announced that it will close the Nintendo Switch eShop in China and other related online services in 2026.
"Starting on March 31, 2026, the Chinese eShop will no longer offer games or apps for sale, meaning new purchases will not be possible after that date. Then, on May 15, 2026, users will no longer be able to download previously purchased games, DLC, or redeem codes."
I don't understand why a console eshop needs to close. Can't they make them backward and forward compatible?
I honestly thought this was the point of the Switch Eshop, it looked like they were moving towards a unified Eshop, which I also thought was going to carry over to the Switch successor.
Apparently in China majority of their consoles are Imported so they can play more games and use that countries eshop. Apparently China is very restrictive of what content goes on the Nintendo eshop
If there is one platform you should never build a digital library on, it's on a Nintendo system.
WOW! Something told me to wait and pick up the physical copy.
Good thing I waited!
That is a large game for 3ds. However large SD cards are dirt cheap. I wish Sony would do something with their vita card prices. Either way I think bravely default is worth owning in either form if your remotely interested in jrpgs.
It fine I got over 163,562 blocks left on my 32GB. Since I have Pokemon Y, Senran Kagura Burst, Resident Evil Revelation and Zero Escape Virtue's Last Reward digital.
Except Pokemon Y is 13,799
and RE:R is 2 block off on mines. I also has music on my 3DS.
Three saves means that I can lend out the game or let my old lady play it when im done.
This game is awesome so far. Only 2 hours in, but it's already better than most games ever made.