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Nintendo Switch 2: Welcome Tour (paid digital, 5th June 2025)

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1 minute ago, Ike said:

Price from VGC:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-welcome-tour-price-has-been-revealed/

Well that's fine then! 

Problem with not mentioning prices in your presentation is stuff like this. At least they learned from the PS5 showcase mistake and actually told us what games were launch titles, though. 

For such a low price, I'm shocked they're not running a promo for the first six months or year where it's free to Switch 2 owners or included in NSO? ::shrug:

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Yeah, it's a bit of a weird one I don't know why they don't just eat the cost and make it built in but at least it's only a few quid - I'll probably pick it up, it looks like there are should be a few mini games in there to try out at least 

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Yeah it's one of those things that would have been a really nice positive message if given away for free. As it is it will just be seen as a $5 waste of time.

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Right, I almost forgot to mention this one, but... easily the most insidious announcement of the Direct. It's like they learned nothing from Nintendo Land.

Look, it's cool that they have a tech demo. It's not cool that they charge for it. I don't care if it's cheap, it is unacceptable to charge for what is essentially a sophisticated instruction manual. This is meant to showcase the product and teach users about its features, it should NOT be locked behind a paywall.

It's a bad sign of where current Nintendo priorities lie. The cherry on top of the cake that is the current pricing scandal.

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8 hours ago, Jonnas said:

Right, I almost forgot to mention this one, but... easily the most insidious announcement of the Direct. It's like they learned nothing from Nintendo Land.

Look, it's cool that they have a tech demo. It's not cool that they charge for it. I don't care if it's cheap, it is unacceptable to charge for what is essentially a sophisticated instruction manual. This is meant to showcase the product and teach users about its features, it should NOT be locked behind a paywall.

It's a bad sign of where current Nintendo priorities lie. The cherry on top of the cake that is the current pricing scandal.

Agreed.  The fact that it's so cheap only serves to highlight how miserly this move is.

As far as the rest of the console and game pricing is concerned, I understand why the console is the price it is.  I actually think you're getting a lot of hardware for the price you're paying, and that the console is actually quite competitively priced for the hardware it's packing.  The games being more expensive also makes sense, considering that they're shipping on much faster and higher capacity cartridges (which are probably based on the, legitimately cutting edge, SD Express tech), but at the same time, I don't see why Mario Kart World needs to be more expensive than DKB (unless MKWorld is on a bigger cartridge I suppose).

I think Nintendo are caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to pricing.  Certainly the tech justifies the higher price, but it's also quite the sticker shock, and moves like not including Welcome Tour for free are just plain stupid.  This is a tech demo that introduces the hardware, it's essentially their equivilent to Astro's Playroom.  Just avoid the unneccessary backlash and include the damn thing for free; it's not worth the PR hit to get that extra £4.50 or whatever this thing costs.

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1 hour ago, Dcubed said:

As far as the rest of the console and game pricing is concerned, I understand why the console is the price it is.  I actually think you're getting a lot of hardware for the price you're paying, and that the console is actually quite competitively priced for the hardware it's packing.  The games being more expensive also makes sense, considering that they're shipping on much faster and higher capacity cartridges (which are probably based on the, legitimately cutting edge, SD Express tech), but at the same time, I don't see why Mario Kart World needs to be more expensive than DKB (unless MKWorld is on a bigger cartridge I suppose).

The software price is what I have big issues with. I get that the cartridge will be probably costing more to produce due to it being faster and I suppose it's a necessary evil in order to keep the hybrid model. I guess it feels like the N64 days where the price of Nintendo games was high due to the format they chose. At least back then though you got a finished game on a cart and a meaty instruction book to flip through.

Nintendo has been successful in targeting families for a long time now, by making a cheaper console and games for that market. With that no longer being the case, it's going to be interesting to see how well it does and if it in fact does price people out of the hobby. I know I'm not sold on the Switch 2 yet and there are 2 lads at work (both have kids) who are gamers who also have no interest in it due to the prices Nintendo are asking. Obviously the enthusiasts will be there day 1, and I imagine it will be a massive hit in Japan again, but as for the mass market? Time will tell.

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1 hour ago, Dcubed said:

Agreed.  The fact that it's so cheap only serves to highlight how miserly this move is.

 

Not to mention that Nintendo were clearly aware that people would expect it to be free, considering they made a fancy logo just to state it was a paid download.

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6 minutes ago, Hero-of-Time said:

The software price is what I have big issues with. I get that the cartridge will be probably costing more to produce due to it being faster and I suppose it's a necessary evil in order to keep the hybrid model. I guess it feels like the N64 days where the price of Nintendo games was high due to the format they chose. At least back then though you got a finished game on a cart and a meaty instruction book to flip through.

Nintendo has been successful in targeting families for a long time now, by making a cheaper console and games for that market. With that no longer being the case, it's going to be interesting to see how well it does and if it in fact does price people out of the hobby. I know I'm not sold on the Switch 2 yet and there are 2 lads at work (both have kids) who are gamers who also have no interest in it due to the prices Nintendo are asking. Obviously the enthusiasts will be there day 1, and I imagine it will be a massive hit in Japan again, but as for the mass market? Time will tell.

Yeah, I agree.  The hardware pricing is fine, but the game prices are really gonna sting; and it's going to severely limit what I buy for this thing.

I've already consigned myself to the fact that I probably won't buy a single 3rd party physical game on this thing (since 99% of them will probably be those shitty Game Key Card el-cheapo thingies); and I won't buy any 3rd party games at full price either.  Nothing 3rd party gets bought digitally until I get a price drop too, and not only that; but given that Switch 2 is limited to 2TB, I'm also going to have to be very careful about how I spend my limited SD card storage as well.  I aint buying a 100GB Final Fantasy 7 Remake when I can just play that on PC/Steam Deck (and in stereoscopic 3D to boot, not flexing here).

Switch 2's biggest factor holding itself back against the original model's sales is inevitably going to be price... but it's also a problem that is largely unavoidable.  Rock and a hard place.

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