Nintendo Finally Reveals Developer Behind Switch 2 Launch Title Welcome Tour, Which Many Said Should Have Been Included for Free

Nintendo fans present cognize who developed Switch 2 motorboat rubric Welcome Tour — the mini-game postulation that besides acts arsenic an interactive acquisition manual for the caller console, which galore person suggested should person been included for free.

While Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour doesn't authorities it wrong the crippled itself, Mario Party workplace Nintendo Cube, formerly NDCube, has present updated its website to corroborate the crippled is its work.

Nintendo Cube is simply a Tokyo-based subsidiary of Nintendo founded successful 2000 that often handles the company's assorted mini-game postulation projects. It developed the so-so Wii Party (not to beryllium confused with the amended Wii Play, which came with a packed-in Wii Remote), arsenic good arsenic the disappointing Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival connected Wii U.

More recently, Nintendo Cube released the functional Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics for Switch 1, earlier the infamous Everybody 1-2 Switch — a enactment crippled sequel launched with small fanfare that earned Nintendo immoderate of its worst reappraisal scores successful caller memory. ("Everybody 1-2-Switch mightiness beryllium the archetypal enactment crippled I’ve played wherever I ended up with less friends afterwards," IGN wrote successful its 4/10 appraisal.)

But it's for Mario Party that Nintendo Cube is champion known, having taken implicit arsenic the hugely fashionable enactment crippled series' main developer opening with 2012's Mario Party 9 onwards, and continuing with Mario Party 10, Mario Party Star Rush, Mario Party: The Top 100, Super Mario Party and Mario Party Superstars.

Nintendo Cube's adjacent motorboat is (deep breath) Super Mario Party Jamboree: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV, a Switch 2 update for Super Mario Party Jamboree that makes usage of the caller console's rodent controls and optional camera peripheral, owed to get connected July 24.

While a budget-priced release, disapproval was levelled astatine Welcome Tour for the sheer fig of its mouse-control games, and the request to person a camera peripheral, a Switch 2 Charging Grip oregon Pro Controller, and a 4K TV to spot everything it had to offer, and implicit the crippled with golden medals.

"Even if Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour were the pack-in crippled it feels similar it was meant to be, the execution of its charming conception is simply a muddled postulation of quaint tech demos and boring factoids dressed up arsenic an uncompelling completionist checklist," IGN wrote successful our Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour review.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social