Why Switch 2 Launch Title Welcome Tour Is $10: "It's Not An Exorbitant Price"

One of the games revealed during the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct was Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a paid game that introduces players to the new features of the system through minigames, tutorials, and quizzes. To many, it felt like it should be a free pack-in game. However, it's $10.

Nintendo's Bill Trinen told IGN that Welcome Tour is an "interesting product" from his perspective, going on to call the game "a pretty robust piece of software."

"For some people, I think there are people who are particularly interested in the tech and the specs of the system and things like that, for them I think it's going to be a great product," he said. "It's really for people that want more information about the system rather than necessarily a quick intro to everything it does."

For that reason, along with the "amount of care and work" that went into creating it, Nintendo decided to price Welcome Tour at $10. He said the reasoning was something along the lines of, "'Yeah, this feels like $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like a good value for what you're getting out of the product.'"

Welcome Tour is a launch title for the Switch 2, arriving on June 5.

The Switch 2 does not include any pack-in games, unless you buy the $500 Switch 2 bundle that comes with Mario Kart World. The original Switch didn't have a pack-in game, either, while the Wii U came with Nintendo Land for its Deluxe edition. The Wii, many will remember, included Wii Sports with every unit.

Switch 2 preorders were expected to begin in the US on April 9, but Nintendo delayed preorders due to US President Donald Trump's tariffs. It remains to be seen when preorders might open, and many believe Nintendo is going to raise prices.