Nintendo eShop Update April 5: 'Detective Pikachu' Demo and 'ARMS' Sale Highlight This Week
This week, the Nintendo eShop update brings new titles to the Switch while also giving players a look at one of this year's biggest 3DS games.
New Nintendo Switch titles include Urban Trial Playground, a game that lets players race on stunt bikes and perform crazy tricks. If platforming RPGs are more your thing, The Adventure Pals leads players on an adventure as a boy with his best friends, a giraffe and a rock.
Detective Pikachu released March 30 but the latest update to the eShop brings a special demo version for Nintendo 3DS owners in Europe and North America. If you're still undecided on whether or not to buy it, you can now try out the demo for Detective Pikachu for free. The demo will only cover parts of the first chapter and you can even transfer save data to the full game once its purchased.
The Nintendo sales for the week of April 5 includes one of Nintendo's newest IPs, ARMS. It'll be 30 percent off until April 6 at 11:59 p.m. EDT so be sure to pick it up by then. There's plenty of other Switch and 3DS games on sale too Here's all of this week's deals.
Also new this week:
- ACA NEOGEO SAMURAI SHODOWN III (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Animated Jigsaws: Beautiful Japanese Scenery (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Arcade Archives Ninja-Kid (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Arcade Archives PUNCH-OUT!! (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Black Hole – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Bombslinger (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 11
- Deep Ones (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 11
- I and Me – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Infernium (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Johnny Turbo's Arcade: Bad Dudes (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Lode Runner Legacy (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Masters of Anima (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 10
- Octocopter: Double or Squids (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Sally's Law (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Sling Ming (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Splat the Fruit (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 6
- Sumer (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Super Daryl Deluxe (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 10
- Super Rocket Shootout (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- The Bunker (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available April 9
- Word Search by POWGI – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
- Alter World (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS)
Are you looking to pick up any of these titles this week? Any of the Nintendo Switch or 3DS deals appeal to you? Let us know in the comments section below.