Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour costs $10, Nintendo explains why it's not a free console package
Blog Andrew Joseph 08 Apr , 2025 0
In the anger around $449.99 price for Switch 2 and $79.99 Price Tag for Mario Kart WorldNintendo decided to be shocked by the cost of the console's tutorial game “Welcome Journey”.
Nintendo reveals Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour In the Nintendo process directly. This is a game launched with the Switch 2, which provides a guided journey to the console itself in the form of a video game.
The Nintendo Switch 2 welcome tour is described as a “virtual exhibition” of new hardware. Per Nintendo: “With technical demonstrations, mini games and other interactions, players will learn about the new system inside and outside in ways they may never have known.”
Nintendo Direct shows a small player Avatar exploring the super-large switch 2 and introduces different features and facts about the console. It also includes mini games such as speed golf, dodge spike balls and Maracas physics demos.
IGN can confirm now Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Priced at $9.99, it is a digital-only product. This is much cheaper than other Switch 2 games, but IGN has reported it Complaints from some Nintendo fans who welcome travel, which almost costs moneymany people say it should be to switch 2 pieces as DualSense Tech Demo game Astro's Game Room Used for PlayStation 5.
IGN interviewed Nintendo, vice president of U.S. product and player experience, Bill Trinen, at a recent Switch 2 preview event in New York, and asked Nintendo if it discussed the game that uses Welcome Tour as a packaged game and why the company decided to price it as a separate digital product.
We need to point out here that our interview with Trinen was conducted on April 3, 2025 Nintendo announces delays on Switd 2 bookings in the United States due to potential impact of tariffsthen worried that Nintendo might further increase the price of consoles and their games.
Trinin said that based on Nintendo's direct performances and the media's recent mobile phone events, there is more welcome trip than this than this than this. Based on the actual situation of the game, Nintendo decided on $9.99 “not a high price,” he continued.
“It’s an interesting product,” Trinin began. “We’re actually ready today, we’re going to have some Nintendo Treehouse Live clips and cover a lot of detailed games. That’s one of them. I think people will be able to see Live through Treehouse Live probably more than you can see in the showroom.”
“For some people, I think there are people who are particularly interested in the system and the specifications of the system, and for them, I think it would be a great product. It is really for those who want more information about the system than have to have to quickly introduce everything it does.
“So, just the care and workload that the team puts in, I think it’s the decision, ‘Yes, it doesn’t feel like $9.99, it’s not a high price. It’s a great value for the product you get from it.”
The welcome journey is certainly just part of the controversy that Nintendo’s next generation is involved, and we have Trining's answer to the company's decision to play with $80 Switch 2and $450 for the Switch 2 itself.
Must check out IGN's full interview with Bill Trinen learn more.
Wesley is the UK news editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter via @wyp100. You can reach Wesley via [email protected] or secretly visit [email protected].
