🛒 How to buy on another Nintendo eShop region?

There is two ways of buying games on other eShop regions

  1. Create a Nintendo account for each country / region you want to buy a game in. You will need a different email address for each of those accounts.
    Protip: if you have a Gmail account, put anything behind a "+" just before the @ and it will still points towards your email. Ex: alex+FR@gmail.com is the same as alex@gmail.com
  2. Change your account country / region each time you want to buy in a different eShop region. You will need to empty any credits in a country before leaving it, or you will lose them.

How to pay on another Nintendo eShop region?

There is multiple ways to pay for games in other regions:

  1. Use your credit card. This greatly depends on your bank and the country you are trying to buy to. Some European Mastercards for example work perfectly around the globe. But again, this depends only on your bank.
  2. Use PayPal if the eShop region accepts it, you can create a PayPal account with an address in the region you are trying to buy to.
  3. Buy gift cards for the eShop you are trying to buy to, here is a few that would give you a digital code to use right away:

🤔 What does these icons mean?

On a pages with prices, you may encounter a few icons. Here is their meaning:

  • This region is known to be difficult to buy from if you don't have a payment method originating from there
  • Gift cards from this region are available, most often you can buy them for cheaper than what their value is for. This can also helps on a store that could be difficult to buy from.

If you want more information about a specific store, like languages, gift cards available, etc, you can just click on the price.


What is the cheapest of all countries?

There is not a single answer to that question. But you can head on the stats page to get a cleared picture.


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