Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Announced for Switch 2 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 April 2025 / 2,434 Views
Nintendo has announced Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour for the Nintendo Switch 2. It will launch alongside the console on June 5 and is a paid digital-only title.
Read details on the game below:
Explore a variety of features and details the new system has to offer. Players can enter a virtual exhibition with Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour and gain insights into what makes Nintendo Switch 2 such a unique gaming experience. 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.
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Gonna repeat here that I think it's a strictly terrible to move to be selling a game that looks more like a techdemo than 1-2 Switch after the PS5 completely raised the bar for "demo games" with Astro's Playroom (which was free). It just makes them look greedy, less people will play it and what they make from it will be peanuts anyhow.
Yeah literally all it does a create ill will among consumers. And just adds to their greedy stance next gen when they expect everyone to start paying a ton more money for Nintendo products.
At least it should be free for NSO members...
Nintendo welcome you to your newly purchased console with an additional price-tag.
It's baffling this is a paid title.
Astro's Playroom is free, preinstalled to PS5, and has a campaign all while showing off DualSense and PS5.
Why is this paid?
This should be free and available on both switch 1 and 2. Strip any mini-games out for the Switch 1 version.
You're right, i don't know for sure. The reason I was hoping this would be free and also on Switch 1 is it could be a good tool to get the non-enthusiast familiarized with what is new in switch 2. It would help very slightly push console sales as a linked title on the news feed for Switch 1. Draw the casuals in, help ensure them drift is fixed, highlight new features, ect. Instead this will be a blip that likely sells next to nothing.
Scummy Nintendo charging for what should be a pack in.
You have been firing shots at whatever you can grasp. The camera a copy of the eye toy like in the direct forum thread. Give me a break.
Feel free to take a break then lol. You took the time out to respond to nearly every comment on this article. I have never seen that before in all my years on this site. You clearly care too much. You even made a separate thread about the topic.
Nintendo are free to charge whatever they want for their product. People are also free to express their displeasure about their actions if they so choose.
Crazy that this is not a pack-in. Who would buy this as a standalone?! Such a bizarre decision. As a stand alone they may as well not have made this game, as a pack-in it adds to the feeling that you are getting $450 worth for the system.
You don’t even know what’s in this game. Just wait and see, then judge if you want.
Sux, i thought this was going to be a astro like demo for free.
Nintendo is not Sony, and often for the better. They are allowed to make different choices and I see nothing wrong with their choice here, people so quick to judge.
when you pay so much for a console, the least they can do is throw in acheap demo.
Welcome tour? More like "Paid Tour".
Seems neat, but it should be free.
We don’t know.
Nintendo copying sony in the bad waay possible.
Insane this is a paid tech demo
You say "Nintendo Copying Sony" while ignoring that Astro Playroom was a full fledged game that came free with the Playstation.
