Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Comes At A Lower Price Than Expected

The price of Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour has been confirmed, and it is lower than what had been expected.

[lukasmain]

Don't give me that garbage, it was "expected" to be FREE

[darthv72]

Agreed. It certainly would make for a nice way to take the sting off the other prices.

[VenomUK]

As it is meant to be an introductory tour to the hardware it really should be free or factored into the price of the base unit.

[Cacabunga]

charging for a point click “welcome tour” 🤮
Unbelievable..

[Jingsing]

This is going to be the problem, The flush pockets of the gaming press who have no concept of value. Already giving Nintendo a free pass to try and convince everyone to empty their already empty pockets.

[FACTUAL evidence]

The welcoming tour is a fee because they want to get you comfy on paying beyond premium prices. Welcome to the cash grab.

[VariantAEC]

Welcome to the Wii U era of Nintendo!

We tried to warn the Nintendo diehards.

[gold_drake]

the fact that it comes with a pricetag at all is ridiculous

[Relientk77]

The fact that this isn't free shows how greedy Nintendo are.

[andy85]

Lower than expected 😂 I'd say expected would be $0 but it's Nintendo who always get a free pass for their practices

[Vithar]

lower price than expected? i expected free LOL

[CrimsonWing69]

Oh, ok that makes it all the better, then.

[goken]

Lower price than expected? So it’s lower than zero?

[DivineHand125]

Why would anyone even pay for this? It is a tech demo. With the amount you are spending on Mario Kart and a few others, it would be a massive waste to spend even 1 cent on this.

[Dandalandan117]

Doesn't matter if it's 10 or 1 dollar.
Everyone was expecting it to be free.
PS5 had Astro's Playroom while Steam Deck had Aperture Desk Job.

[VariantAEC]

That's really cool. I chickened out on my Steam Deck reservation. Steam got their minimum cut because I didn't cancel.

[CDbiggen]

I just saw this on the treehouse live video and it was so boring. What were they thinking?

[neutralgamer1992]

Gaming journalists truly have no backbone. This should have been free so if it came in lower than expected it means it's too expensive to begin with since it's supposed to be free

Nintendo once charged $50 for a cardboard box and called it innovation. And we can thank Nintendo for raising game prices to $90 moving forward. You think publishers like EA and take two don't love that? $90 for base game and $100 for 3 day early access is where we are going. Playstation fans defend Sony all the time but Nintendo fans are truly on another level

[-Foxtrot]

"Gaming journalists truly have no backbone"

If this was Microsoft or Sony they'd have eaten them alive.

Nintendo gets the Nintendo pass...as usual.

[neutralgamer1992]

Exactly Nintendo has gotten away with so much nonsense. Could you imagine ms or Sony releasing a console that costs 450 with those specs in 2025?

Way too many journalists grew up with Nintendo so that's why Nintendo gets a free pass

[Loktai]

Yes BS. this is paid shilling for sure.. Dude even astros playroom came free on every machine- This is crazy.... PAY to get a reach-around about your outdated machine, now with 73% more propaganda, all for a LOW LOW price of "less than we COULD ask so assume you expected"!

[MrNinosan]

How can it be lower than expected, when expected was free?

[Good-Smurf]

Got to love all these sites already damage controlling it all for Nintendo, access journalists needs to go.
The hell you mean it's cheaper than expected it's like being charged to pick a frigging brochure guide for your own console that you already paid for.

[Knushwood Butt]

It's like they are using this to try and pad the launch game lineup, which consists of one new fiist party game and practically everything else is a port or remaster.

Surprised this isn't getting called out more, but hey, it's Nintendo!

[PRIMORDUS]

You can keep that shit, I will watch a video of it on YT for free.

[jlove4life]

That's what's up there giving us a credit once we complete the game the only price lower than free is paying us to get it

[MeteorPanda]

20 dollars australian. no ty.

[SegaSaturn669]

I dont even think people will pirate this game.

[RaiderNation]

Unless it's free, it's not lower that expected. This should've been a pack in.

[VariantAEC]

If Nintendo isn't paying me to play this, then it's not lower than expected. If this software costs more than $0.00, then it costs more than expected.

[LoveSpuds]

How anyone can try and spin charging for this tech demo as a positive is beyond me. I cannot help but reflect on how PS5 gave us Astrobot as a tech demo and the huge amount of good will that generated for Sony.

What the hell are Nintendo thinking? I must say, whilst I am hyped for the system and the games shown, Nintendo's naked greed is really taking the shine off everything. As a Nintendo fan, it is really disappointing.

[REDDURT]

lol Nintendo fanboy fluff. It supposed to be free.

[Zenzuu]

It shouldn't be charged at all. Astro's Playroom demo on PS5 was excellent, but most importantly, it was free.

[northpaws]

I expected it to be free, so do I get money back? It should have been an free and playable on original switch so people know can find out more about switch 2 before ordering.

[VariantAEC]

$15 Mail-in rebates better be coming in hot. The extra cash is for the added trouble of filling out a mail-in rebate.

[b00mFargl3]

You mean higher than expected? It was expected to be free.

[jjb1981]

Aperture Desk Job was a whopping $0.

[VariantAEC]

I remember such games on PS Vita, PS4, and PS5 were free. But let's forget about the competition, the 3DS also had free AR games. I guess even Nintendo forgot about that! Oh well.