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Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Will Be a Paid Tour of Your New Nintendo Switch 2 - IGN

Nintendo has announced the Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a special game launching alongside the Switch 2 to take you on a guided tour of its new hardware. Surprisingly, though, it's not a pack-in piece of software, but a separate, paid digital game.

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Shown during today's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is a "virtual exhibition" of the new hardware. Per Nintendo, "through tech demos, minigames and other interactions, players will get to know the new system inside and out in ways they may never have known about otherwise."

I couldn't believe my ears when I heard it'll be paid. I'd want to get paid to play it. It's basically a marketing and tutorial software for the Switch 2.

Launches same day as Switch 2.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Yeah this is weird as a paid thing, should just be preloaded onto every Switch 2.

 

[nkill20]

Give Nintendo an inch and they'll go a mile.

 

[analog_future]

This is the dumbest shit ever lol

 

[XXL]

 

[graywolf323]

so Astro's Playroom but probably nowhere near as good AND they want you to buy it?

 

[obigbrubs]

I cannot believe that "people" will pay for this

 

[LordBritish]

Wild not a free pack-in...

 

[jshackles]

Is it $80? lol

 

[Kataploom]

That's so stupid, it's gonna sell less than 1, 2, Switch

 

[SimTourist]

Wonder how much for a tech demo, $60 at least, not too outrageous

 

[Cyberpunkd]

For all of you peasants that think this will be 19.99€ max - watch it being 39.99€.

 

[emivita]

This is the equivalent of Welcome Park on the PS Vita, but not free.

Please understand.

 

[bender]

Is it $80? lol

Just for you and only you, $79.99. See that gentlemen over there, he's very interested in buying this very copy.

 

[NanaMiku]

Yeah, I was really surprised this is a paid "game". It should be like Astro's Playroom

 

[jm89]

 

[lughnasadh123]

Paid???

 

[Melon Husk]

Do they sell the Switch 2 manual as a paid .PDF file too?

 

[Comandr]

I can't believe -I mean, I can, but... that Nintendo has the balls to SELL you a tutorial for their own console. When it's dumb shit like.. The magnets are here and the buttons are steel and that's how they connect?

 

[Sojiro]

This looked like an very Nintendo-esque interactive digital manual of your device, but the fact they are charging for it is fucking hilarious, like get the hell out of here. This should be included on the system as it's nothing more than a cutesy digital manual with some mini games.

 

[Trilobit]

so Astro's Playroom but probably nowhere near as good AND they want you to buy it?

It's littered with tutorial videos. Astro's Playroom was amazing and is even more amazing in comparison to this crap.

 

[Shaki12345]

Wii Sports route should have been taken.

 

[SupaComputa]

From the looks of it, the info seems really useful. "Press the power button on top to turn the console on", dude how do you think I am seeing this right now?

 

[tTHANOSs]

Nintendo about to be humbled real quick with the crap they pulling for switch2

 

[xrnzaaas]

A company with a huge success of their previous hardware starts to milk their customers when the new hardware launches, haven't seen that before.

But to be fair to Sony, at least Astro's Playroom offered a really good chunk of content for free.

 

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[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Nintendo is so greedy it's unreal.

If any other company did this they'd be flayed alive.

 

[GrandlyBodacious]

Nintendoes what Nintendon't!

 

[808mate]

Nobody's paying for this shit.

 

[Hookshot]

Already pre ordered

 

[Holammer]

Kind of weak to charge money for it.
Astro's Playroom was free.

 

[MrJangles]

Farcical. Sony meanwhile stuck a free Astrobot game on the PS5.

 

[Mortisfacio]

The news just keeps getting worse.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Next Astro's Playroom to be paid...plus next gen games will be 100€ in Europe won't they?

Gaming is going through some weird times right now.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

I can't believe they're trying to charge somebody for that

 

[lestar]

Greedy nintendo is back

 

[user friendly]

Wont this just end up on Youtube anyway?

 

[jshackles]

Wont this just end up on Youtube anyway?

Sure, but you won't be able to scrape the paint off the screen using the new joy-con mouse yourself. You'll have to watch someone else scrape paint.

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

Such a disappointment, this should have been bundled for free.

 

[MMaRsu]

Do they sell the Switch 2 manual as a paid .PDF file too?

Actually, yes.

 

[SteadyEvo]

Yeah this is weird as a paid thing, should just be preloaded onto every Switch 2.

Yes and no. On the surface it appears to be a tech demo but we don't know how deep the experience is. And I doubt it'll be more than $25.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Same shit they did by selling 1 +2 Switch 7 years ago......except that was a game at least.........

 

[dave_d]

Give Nintendo an inch and they'll go a mile.

Well I used to joke that back when physical play through guides were a thing that I was surprised Nintendo didn't sell a brick with their name on it as the "Nintendo Play Guide securing system". (You know, to keep the guide open to some page and not get blown around.)

 

[jshackles]

Actually, yes.

That post is literally referring to this game specifically, not a PDF file or something

 

[Dacvak]

Jesus Nintendo… how do you charge for something like this. So stupid.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

There is mini games in it, its like Switch 1+2 with an infomercial.

 

[rofif]

it's not free? wow...
nintendo going very bold with 80$ and not even free astrobot like demo

 

[touchfuzzy]

Yes and no. On the surface it appears to be a tech demo but we don't know how deep the experience is. And I doubt it'll be more than $25.

True, and I'm a dumb fanboy so if it's cheap-ish I'll probably buy it anyways due to new console hype, but still.

 

[Dacvak]

If this is any more than $10 I'm gonna find Reggie and fart in his cereal.

 

[jshackles]

at the very least they could have added this for free to NSO subscribers or something