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Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour Is "Good Value For What You're Getting", According To Nintendo Vice President

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jack Coleman

Published Apr 7, 2025

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Nintendo Switch 2's Welcome Tour is priced at $9.99, despite essentially being a tech demo.
Bill Trinen of Nintendo of America believes the price is good value for what players get.
The Switch 2 could be even more expensive depending on the economic ramifications of Donald Trump's trade tariffs.

Nintendo is currently weathering a storm of negative reception regarding pricing. Although fans are excited about the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2's powerful hardware, the pricing strategy of the console and its games have caused ⛎consternation among the player base.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is priced at $449.99, $150 more than the price of the Nintendo Switch at launch. Meanwhile, the system's launch titlღes, Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, are set to cost $80 and $70 respectively. The former is attracting significant ඣcriticism, as it costs $10 more than the most expensive Switch game, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

However, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour's pricing is one that has baffled Nintendo fans. The software is basically a showcase of the new features and specifications of the Switch 2, designed as a "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more soulless and corporate" version of the PlayStation 5's Astro's Playroom. However, the controversial part of Welcome Tour 🐎is that it costs $9.99, while Astro's Playroom is free.

Controversial Pricing

Switch 2 Welcome Tour characters waving over an orange background.

Welcome Tour is a set of "mini-games" intended to show off the hardware, but there really isn't a lot to them, according to our editor-in-chief Stacey Henley who went hands-on with the game: "I have no idea who would buy this, or who should," she wrote. Fans have also joked that Welcome Tour could be the first-ever Nintendo game to sell "168澳洲幸运5开奖网:zero copies."

However, in an interview with , Nintendo of America's vice president of product and player experience Bill Trinen dis𒈔agrees with the 🔥sentiment that Welcome Tour isn't worth its price tag.

"It's a little bit more maybe than you were able to see on the show floor. It's a pretty robust piece of software. There's a lot of great detail in there," Trinen began. "For some people, I think there are people who are particularly interested in the tech and specs of the system and things like that, for them I think it's going to be a great product. It's really for people that want more information about the system rather than necessarily a q♍uick intro to every💝thing it does. And for that reason and just the amount of care and work people put into it, I think it was decided that, 'Yeah, this feels likee $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like good value for what you're getting out of the product.'"

The Switch 2 could become even more expensive depending on the market implications of Donald Trump's tariffs, which are 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:not factored into the $4♊49.99 price tag.