Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Will Be a Paid Tour of Your New Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo has announced the Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a peculiar crippled launching alongside the Switch 2 to instrumentality you connected a guided circuit of its caller hardware. Surprisingly, though, it's not a pack-in portion of software, but a separate, paid integer game.

Shown during today's Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is simply a "virtual exhibition" of the caller hardware. Per Nintendo, "through tech demos, minigames and different interactions, players volition get to cognize the caller strategy wrong and retired successful ways they whitethorn ne'er person known astir otherwise."

Today's Direct showed footage of a tiny subordinate avatar exploring a super-sized Switch 2, speechmaking astir the antithetic features and facts astir the Nintendo Switch 2. It seems to enactment similar a virtual depository of sorts, but besides person immoderate min-games similar Speed Golf, Dodge the Spiked Balls, and a Maracas Physics Demo.

On watercourse and successful a property release, Nintendo besides confirmed the Switch 2 Welcome Tour volition beryllium disposable to bargain from the Nintendo eShop connected Switch 2's motorboat day.

While it's a neat tool, fans were speedy to wonderment wherefore this was a paid digital-only crippled and not a console pack-in for the Nintendo Switch 2. No terms has been listed arsenic of this writing.

For comparison, the Switch 2 is besides launching with games similar Mario Kart World, Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster, and Deltarune Chapters 1 done 4. While a showcase for the caller console is surely intriguing, it volition beryllium competing for immoderate stretched wallets aboriginal on.

The Nintendo Switch 2 launches connected June 5, 2025 astatine a $449.99 USD terms tag, oregon $499.99 for the bundle including Mario Kart World.

To drawback up connected everything announced during today's stream, beryllium definite to cheque retired our recap of the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct close here.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.