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Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is Sad and Awful and Costs Money
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- Published on Feb 16, 2026
- I paid 10 euro for Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a tech demo for Nintendo Switch 2 you have to pay money for. I played the entire game so you don't have to make the same mistake I did
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I've never felt so robbed of 10 euro, this should have been free. I miss Wii Sports
Feels important to say that I still love the console and Mario Kart World. This was just not a good time. I picked it up purely to stream it for those curious
You didn’t have to buy it if you already know you were gonna get robbed
It's just a cashgrab Dad, Idk what you expected
From what I've heard, Reggie had to fight Nintendo back then to make wii sports a pack in deal. So they've always been willing to charge for tech demos.
Mate you sound like you are trying to have as good PR as possible
it's a lesser version of the 1 2 Switch problem, where it shouldn't have been paid, but if it was a pack-in, it'd be a dreadful first impression of the system.
The video game equivalent of “this could’ve been an email”
"This could've been à tutoriel video on their channel"
In this case
It could've been one of those little leaflets in the box that nobody reads
Yeah but you expect what from nintendo. they are selling YOUUU the consumer the same product. but its black now.
Generous of you call this a game honestly
@Lazer_Specter its more like Buying Tboi. 2. and its the same tboi. but. Now issac Is Pink.
They could have made a WarioWare game that did all these tech demos in a way more fun way, instead they did... This...
w- WHAT THE HELL YOU EXPECTED FROM A CONSOLE RESKIN?. BECUZ THE SWITCH 2 IS LITTERARY THAT FOR A ABSURD PRICE!. and dont you own the console!.. who wanna Go back to 1?. yk. the console you own???
@1Eriscool you are 12 years old
@gyro_max5655 ok, gyro_max5655
@gyro_max5655 says who?. And seeying how you replied to my comment. You are a nintendo glazer. shut up :D
you liked your own comment too. lmfao
@gyro_max5655the original comment was completely different too.
I love my switch 2 and the joycons that detach with telekinesis and attach to the console with love.
i’m sorry, you failed. joycons do not attach to the nintendo switch 2. you must be referring to joycon 2’s
you should get *paid* for playing this given what a waste of time it was. nintendo has made so many minigames (and they even included Nintendo Land with the wii u!)
If Iwata and Itoi were still alive, they would have made the console with love and telekenisis. Too bad corporate Furukawa insisted magnets were better 🙄
Did you know that you can also attach them back to front and upside down? That's because love works in mysterious ways.
I love the powers of pride month
4:14 "Did you know! You can drop Nintendo Switch 2 into the ocean! However, you should not do that."
I wouldn't be surprised if a Streamer or RUclipsr does that for money.
*'the Nintendo Switch 2 console'
"Hey! Yo! Did you know that your Switch 2 can be used as a self defence weapon!? Doing so voids the warranty though"
It's crazy how this is literally exactly what the stanley parable 2 was making fun of
WAIT YOU'RE SO RIGHT, NOW I'M EVEN MORE MAD THEY MADE THIS COST MONEY
wait what?!
Life truly imitates art.
where!!!
What do you mean?
Never gonna get over how they charged for this.
you must understand they need the money. how else can they fund the next pokemon game that will run at 20fps on the switch 2.
Unlike RT, who never charges his stuff
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Nintendo Land included in the Wii U? And that game was actually fun and replayable? God I miss the way Nintendo used to be during the DS and Wii era, everything was genuinely fun and now it’s just not :(
maybe Dan can crash this like he did with the metaverse
To put this into perspective Wii Sports came free with the Wii.
Man it feels like the crummy workplace mandatory training you skip through and guess all the answers until you get enough right
I feel like god rn for rightfully guessing the switch 2 is a flop and that the tour was BAD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Not me actually having a whole backlog of manager trainings I have toy slog through after I get off my lunch break
@1Eriscoolalright man the Switch 2 is not a flop, but there is no defending the tour lmao I'll give you that.
This makes my eye twitch because I've worked for a corporation and this feels exactly like training material for people who have to sell this product. You're paying for TRAINING MATERIAL, not just marketing material, TRAINING material for corpos. That somehow feels worse.
Cause training material, as begrudgingly fucking boring as it may be, actually has a use, To train you, for a Job, that YOU get PAID for.
Whats happening here, is YOU’RE paying money, for boring-ass-training, that you absolutely dont need!
You PAID MONEY, to be quized like THIS:
“WHAT SHAPE IS THE OBJECT SHOWN ON THE LEFT ( A FUCKING CIRCLE)”
A: A SQUARE
B: A TRIANGLE
C: A FUCKING WASTE OF TIME
They might as well just have had a Text prompt show up when you start the tour, and all it says is “Can you read, or See, at all?” And a Yes or No option, Both options lead to the game instantly closing.
Would have been just as useful.
C.) You're absolutely right what the fuck am I doing here!@carlwheezerofsouls3273
So true, especially with the clean, pristine, clinical artstyle.
I couldn't place my finger on it but you are totally right. It feels EXACTLY like you are watching a 1-hour training video. The quizzes really sell it.
This entire thing could've just been a manual. You know, the thing that's in the box?
I'm so sorry 1-2-Switch for every mean word I said about you, at least you were a game
but it was also $50
@ninjafrog6966yes, and this costs $10 and it's worthless. I can see someone buying 1-2-Switch in the launch to test the new features, but I can't see anyone genuinely wanting to buy Welcome Tour
@ninjafrog6966 They should have given me $50 for having to look so silly playing that stuff in front of people.
@SuperFranzs fair kinda
No it fucking wasn't 😭
What kind of legal conundrum Nintendo got itself into that it has to explicitly mention that "THIS IS A TECH DEMO, NOT A GAME".
Dunno, but they're the kind to patent and retroactively throw a lawsuit for gliding usign an animal, so everything is possible.
The game constantly reminds the player that it is in fact not a real game
@ballom29 The next plan is to patent t he concept of a tech demo.
@ballom29Cactus Mccoy was already doing that having released on 2011
WE KNOW THIS IS NOT FUN WE SWEAR
As someone who worked as a tech associate in retail, those quizzes are just the training they give you. Except Nintendo decided to sell it to their customers. Who already bought the thing being advertised.
What the fuck is going on?
greed
We keep under estimating how dumb and willing to spend money the general public is.
@Zanytiger6 I don't think this is a general public issue.
@bawnawn "People just need to be smarter" is entirely backwards way of thinking. When you want something fixed, you fix it _at the source._ This is like squashing ants as they leave the colony, mouthing to yourself "if they would only just stop going into my house". No, that doesn't work. You solve the problem at the source, which is taking out the ant colony itself or cleaning your home. People buying this stuff blindly is a problem, but ultimately it is a symptom. Symptoms only go away forever if you remove/fix what causes it, not just wishing the symptoms stopped happening.
Literally had this exact type of training working at a tech store. This video gave me PTSD
When I was at the Switch 2 hands-on event in London, there was a booth for this game hidden right at the back of the hall. There were 6 screens for it and 1 Nintendo staff for each screen, but NOBODY was queueing for it. So I did.
It was easily one of the funniest 15 minutes I've ever had at an event like that. The guy walking me through it tried so hard to be convincingly excited for the first 5 mins, but even he couldn't pretend how pointless it was and we both ended up spending the whole time making fun it. By the time I got to the 'guess the frame rate' game while the dude was explaining what I needed to do and what a frame rate was, I fuckin lost it lol. I know I'm biased but I can't hate Welcome Tour because of that - its confidence in just how 'nothing' it is borderlines on genius. It's so stupid it's almost a masterpiece
.......saying that though, charging money for it is disgraceful lol. I could swear everyone at the event mentioned it 'came with' the Switch 2 like how Astro's Playroom did with PS5 but I could be misremembering
Bottom line = the game is so dumb it's brilliant, but the price is so dumb it's terrible
Yeah it “comes with” the switch 2, if you pay for it.
Nintendo staff turning on friendly fire against the game they're supposed to sell is quite possibly one of the funniest scenarios I've ever heard of
I don’t know what’s funnier, the fact that Nintendo employees know this thing sucks or the fact that you were the one who got them to open up about it.
God can you imagine being the poor employees cursed to the Welcome Tour booth? Truly tragic
@NiceSeeingYouAgain well at least they didn't need to explain the game a lot compared to the other booths.. basically getting paid to do nothing so I guess that's ONE positive for this horrible "game"
The questions being like "What color is the red ball?" While showing you a picture of a red ball is taking me out
A: Red
B: Blue
C: The total socioeconomic collapse of western civilization
D: Elephant
Yvan Eht Nioj
@Keraph I'll go with 7.
Anybody stupid enough to buy this not for content needs that level of question or they'd be stuck forever.
@Keraph Trick Question, the answer is Potato
Wasn't sold on this game until I saw Color the Shape: Triangle. Really makes the whole experience worth it
And it's incredible how they brought the franchise to new heights with Color the Shape: Star!
upon seeing Color the Shape: Triangle I immediately went and purchased 6 copies for myself, and 2 copies for each of my friends and family
update: i have just been made aware of Color the Shape: Triangle: Part 2
Nintendo has once again impressed me beyond words. here i was, naively awaiting a gracious triangle to grace the screen of my Nintendo Switch 2 apparatus.
instead, the greatest star shape in video gaming has bestowed joy upon my retinas, burning a permanent imprint.
i will NEVER forget this moment
thank you Nintendo
Dude I can't fuckin wait until Sakurai reveals what the next shape is in Color the Shape: Triangle: Part 3 at the next Direct.
Missed opportunity not having a racing mini game for the joycon and calling it ‘Joycon Drift’
🙄
Banger 🔥
never happen. nintendo would never admit it & any 3rd party dev would get a c&d
banger title though
I once heard RT used to be known as the "Joycon King"
This game feels like homework that you really don’t want to do
You walk up to an NPC and they excitedly tell you that this next part is really boring.
And it's not a comedy game. They *mean* it.
a bot stole your comment 😔
@valenkadd oh my good lord who in their right mind would care? seriously, do you think your are doing anything but wasting bandwidth with comments like this? report the bot for spam and move on.
@graydient05do you need a hug, friend?
@graydient05 man it aint that serious drink some water
@graydient05 Bro, I'd like to know if some dumb AI stole my comment lol, that's funny af. You don't gotta let stuff rile you up so much. Besides, them commenting uses way less energy than a single bitcoin miner so it's not gunna kill someone ha.
This is like being born as a baby and immediately getting a fucking eight hour webinar on how the human body works, then being quizzed on it with questions consisting entirely of "goo goo"s and "gaa gaa"s.
But, your baby self also had to give some blood in order to see it.
“Dude I’ve been in there for 9 months just lemme figure it out”
“BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT MAGNETS-“
I hate when I'm born as an adult
@KawaiiEvoMii i mean. i know someone who was born at age 6 without a face
I remember playing aperture desk job for the first and only time. it was a fun little experience that pretty much said: "Here's where the buttons are, and what this has as a controller"
it was charming, short, and most importantly of all - not advertising the product I ALREADY BOUGHT
just found out you had to purchase this "experience"
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Apature Desk job is pretty good and is actually somewhat entertaining, unlike Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
and also free
Best of all, you can download and play it even you don't own a Steam Deck but the experience won't be good though.
Even if you didnt like aperature desk job, its fairly short, its free, and it has a cameo of a certain CEO at the end with the original actor reprising the role. Completely unnecessary but cool that valve went out of their way to do that.
18:29 This is a literal baby puzzle. Like, 'I show you a circle, so press the button with a circle on it.' This is embarrassing. Why did they release this? Even for _free_ it would have been a bad look. And this is the _final_ _quiz_
Because you'd be an actual idiot to buy a Switch 2
They know their fanbase.
With all the shenanigans they've been doing lately, I don't think whoever owns it now cares about their public image anymore
Sounds like they were missing some questions at this point
“Its not just a console. Its a revolution”
And just like a revolution: it has lots of angry screaming people
I thought the Revolution came out 19 years ago?
More like a grim future for consumerism.
The Revolution was just a console, though
@superamogusbros5594 you're thinking of absolute cinema, this one is a Sh!t Show.
Worker of the world, _check notes_ consume?
Just for reference, the 3ds came with a photo mode and viewer (WITH some editing tools), a music player and audio studio, streetpass, mii maker, "face raiders," a web browser, and an ar card mode with a collection of ar cards and game modes. ALL BUNDLED IN THE CONSOLE.
you also need to remember their rivals for the context of why having these things mattered at the time
after all, how is it meant to compete with the psp if it has no features? or hell, how is it meant to compete against its older brothers, like the gameboy and its advanced(mutated) cousin? it needed them because the market was asking for them at the time
the reason why the switch 2(and also the first switch may I add because lets face it, they are both suffer from basically the same issues) is like this is because there is no rival; and if there is no true competition, why bother doing any better?
@vibethecat4194 3DS competed with the PS Vita. PSP was the DS/DS lite's competition.
This is why the 3ds is my favourite I love you
@Samevi eh, they're all basically the same handhelds of their respective company, just with a couple of extra whatchamacallits
I was just thinking...did the Wii u have anything. ig Nintendoland which was bundled.
If this were free, it would have been a neat little interactive tech demo or user manual. Instead, it's a waste of money.
Yep. The FPS demo would be a great way to explain FPS to people. But I'm not paying 10 bucks for that shit.
One of the few things in the gaming sphere that has truly enraged me. How are Nintendo not embarrassed at themselves
@Michael_Cargo they are, in the direct they specified it was a paid game so they knew it should be free
Yep, this would have been cute at best or inoffensive at worst if free. But when you pay for things, your expectations rise. Companies have yet to realize this.
even free its cringe, it gives you a TEST about the nerdy details of the switch 2
It honestly feels like Nintendo and Sony switched brains. How did PlayStation get a free 3d platformer to teach you how the console works that went on to be the framework for Astro bot, a game that won GAME OF THE YEAR, and Nintendo made this paid slop? It’s just mind boggling and disheartening tbh.
Sony really must have switched on their right brains compared to Nintendo's all left
@AmyElnah Now if we can only get those game studios to put more effort in making a variety of exclusive games.
Fucking wild that the ‘tech demo’ for the steam deck, Aperture Desk Job, with actual charm, story, personality and JK Simmons, was FREE and this corporate blob was TEN EURO
And Astro's Playroom on ps5
and what was also cool for me was that I didn't need to buy a Steam Deck to play this game as a Portal fan. I could play it with my old simple gamepad connected to my computer
NINTENDO
not only that but you could play that demo on PC and see what features youre missing out on
Honestly Nintendo should be paying you to “play” this
Nobody's even gonna pirate this
It's not worth paying for and it's not even worth pirating.
You wanna know a fun fact?
Nintendo said that the Switch 2 was unhackable due to hackers who got their hands on it early saying they had a hard time trying to hack it.
Try to guess what happened the day the Switch 2 launched.
@charlescalvinfromtriplethr9712 Yea but I genuinely wanna see somebody actually intentionally pirating this game to play it on their emulator device
@charlescalvinfromtriplethr9712 oh right.I forgot it was hacked day one
@TheHuggableEmpire I'mma probably do it whenever the switch 2 emulator comes out
I don't understand why they would market this crap for money.
When i can just watch it online for free from other suckers that bought it!
Ty someone gets it. I enjoy Rt game and know he's getting good money so he can make the purchase and I get to avoid the price
Even if its sad people gotta listen to capita to make money or to just enjoy subpar games
(Like I haven't replayed any of my switch games but I'm still playing wish cave in pokemon mystery dungeon blue because 100 levels are so pain but so rewarding)
I was under the assumption this was free (like how my ps4 vr headset came with a bunch of short demos of vr games) and to learn it's not is crazy! Paying to be advertised to is next level scamming
@vespernight4236
That would make it so much better if it was actually free but Nintendo is not very good at that now are they
@vespernight4236 switch 2 has a bunch of lovely non free surprises. An entire button on your controller doesnt work unless you pay for online. Graphic upgrade for games you already own? 10-20 bucks depending on the game. Digital copy of the game costs 10bucks less but the actual cartridge you buy doesnt even contain the game just the license for the game which isnt new but still bullshit. Some games you physically buy you cant even play without internet first.
you actually cant watch it its a tactile thing
15:03
This stupid emoji head is going to haunt my me for the imaginary money that I do not have, in my nightmares.
A reminder that Astro's Playroom is a an entire platformer with 4 worlds, 4 powerups, a bossfight, a bunch of interesting PS themed collectibles, memorable music and art style, and it came with the PS5 for free on launch.
A reminder that 19 years ago the Wii came with Wii Sports.
A reminder that first run of the NES in 1985 (U.S.) came with ROB, a light gun, and a cartridge with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt.
well wii sports wasn't gonna be a pack in at all originally, as someone said under the pinned comment reggie had to actively fight nintendo to get it included, and they still didn't include it in japan. nintendo isn't above selling a tech demo at all
*15 years ago. Also that NES was part of a deluxe pack, most people bought the console with a single game for a much lower price.
Steam Decks have Aperture Desk Job, that is both a demo and pretty funny and entertaining.
*19 years ago
I can feel my bones turning to dust
@Dumbledoresarmy13 It's a demo, it's a full-on fun game *and* it's a plotbit to greater Portal universe)
cant believe this costs the same as terraria, undertale, portal 1 and 2, left 4 dead 2, half life 2, lethal company, and more games that provide SO MUCH more genuine content than this mistake
also most of the games you mentioned regularly go on sale
undertale was literally a tenth of this “game”’s price a couple months ago
@-FutureTaken-terraria was $0.99 back when they added the upside down seed and a few other stuff I'm blanking on.
the orange box goes on sale for like 2 dollars pretty regularly
The entire Ace Attorney Trilogy is currently on steam sale for $9.89 USD. 3 of the best mystery games ever made for the price of this tech demo.
i mean there's plenty of shovelware games that also cost $10 😭
Crazy how a price tag turned this from a really cool immersive tutorial to one of the offensive videogames ever made.
facts
People would have been mad either way. I mean... have you ever been on the internet. Stupid youtubers are just turning the drama into a grift, but in a normal world, people not caring would just not have bought it.
If this was bundled for free it would be a case of “look at this weird and boring tech demo Nintendo made” and everyone would pop it in once and go “huh well whatever” but because it costs money it's just downright insulting and it doesn't exactly help when people are already upset at Nintendo for raising prices.
@Etienne.6329nah if this was free id think it was really cool, Even if it was paid, but if u were the orignal owner of a switch 2 you got it for free, Id take that, BUT NOOOO its paid :/
ID EVEN TAKE IT BEING INCLUDED IN THE NORMAL CONSOLE AND NOT IN THE MARIO KART BUNDLE
Cuz u made ur choice with that BUT NOPE
@Etienne.6329nah. It is a cute lil interactive user's manual, but you shouldn't be expected to pay for a 30 minute user's manual
''Here's how you can put the joycons on wrong, but please don't'' YOU PAID TEN BUCKS FOR THIS?!
I feel like 'Find the five moving pixels' encompasses everything wrong with this
Alot of the tech demo felt like nintendo begging the user to think the switch 2 is some crazy high end hardware or something which it just isnt
I mean yeah its not terrible like the original Switch 1 hardware was but its also not anything crazy either
The HD rumble 2 bits was honestly the absolute worst for me Like genuinely what was the point of that?
Thats not how you tell the user its better
The framerate comparison reminded of those gifs you saw all the time on /r/pcmasterrace about 10 years ago, it's insane to see Nintendo use it.
@Elijah1573It feels like your boomer parents showing you what Google is and trying to impress you with an industry standard thing
This is such a sad and unfun tech demo, even the NPCs feels like they don't want to be here
i miss astros playroom
I miss wii sports...
Nintendo is trying to connect with a new demographic: bored 9-5 workers
@ihappy1they've always had that demographic. bored 9-5ers don't want more boredom. they want imaginative, creative experiences. what they're doing, is trying to pivot to that shitty, corpo, over simplified look that literally everyone hates, because the executives at nintendo are more out of touch than an uncontacted island tribe.
that's such a good point. they all come across as apologetic LMAO. i wonder if the devs knew it was bullshit to make it cost money and slipped in passive aggressive bs on purpose
i lost it at 15:11 "You're now free to enjoy the delights of Colour the Shapes: Triangle"
this "game" is pathetic
i think one of the worst aspects of this ""game"" (the definite worst one is having to pay 10€ for it) is that nintendo doesn’t seem to realise that their official product names are grating to read/hear. i almost audibly groaned when it got to the "nintendo switch 2 console’s hd rumble 2" part.
Because it was never a game in the first place. That's why they called it a TECH DEMO. This was not supposed to be for the consumers but for the Suits and Devs who wanted to learn hands-on about the console.
@jacobkrakowski And then they sold it off to the consumers for 10 bucks, then becoming a consumer product.
13:55
Dude this little face outline guide screams Face Raiders at me and I am appalled that they didn't make one of THOSE with mouse controls for a mini game in this
Is that literally the same exact outline? Did they not even bother to make a new one?
@2b2056 looks the exact same to me. only difference is that face raiders featured a little nose on them i think
19:01 the fact that after all that soulless "tech demo" they had the audacity to say "thanks for playing" is baffling. Thank you Mr. Raniel Taniel Game for enduring the suffering that is this... thing... so we don't have to.
It's not even that bad, it's just that this should be free
@Solokeyss If it was free, it would be the sort of thing you'd be up for 5 minutes, go "huh, neat I guess" and then uninstall it. The fact its as expensive as it is, is baffling
@SolokeyssI still think the concept of doing hardware quizzes to clear a -game- tech demo is insanely boring, even if they are easy
rumble tumble
Comgration You Done It
0:11 He said the line, someone call Sam Reich and get RT on game changer
not gonna lie he would fit perfectly for an episode
He's been here the whole time
If Ranboo can make the cut so can Dan
we need the drift king on game changer IMMEDIATELY
@crestenor wait he was on game changer, i mean i dont have a dropout subscription but still, thats so cool
This is the kind of "game" you would show to a bunch of rich old investors that have never touched a video game in their life.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, it was lowkey giving less glitchy metaverse
Exactly what I was thinking
Probably its entire purpose
And they would still angrily berate you to turn whatever this is off.
I was thinking something more along the lines of "this game does the kind of pandering that only someone who would unironically pay 10 bucks for it would be targeted at"
And no, I'm not the sort of person who attacks others for their opinions and decisions, it's just the vibe the game is giving me. Like the game itself is aware they are exploiting their target playerbase
If that was free and came as a tech demonstration for the console and offered you the ability to recalibrate functions with live game style testing this wouldve been a 10/10 but the fact theyre making people pay money for this is unbelievable
13:00 Ive never seen a water simulation that was so obviously done with balls
how does this game fail at the only thing it can do
Worms Revolution.
Low res water
@mauswaffles off topic but fire pfp
Finally, a worthy successor to Return of Detective Pikachu. It doesn't waste AS much of your time, but it makes every wasted second count.
Detective pikachu returns is still worse, it's actually supposed to be entertaining
Or rather, it makes you count every wasted second
Game sucked so much you didn’t even say its name right?
a comment to enjoy my PTSD-inducing mac and cheese to
return of defective pikachu?
Here's the sad thing: Imagine if this was just the Switch 2 menu? All the same assets could have made a 3D Mii world shaped like the console, and the little demos and options would be interesting little distractions when you're not playing a game. The normal menu could be popped up at any time with x, +, -, or whatever button, so no loss and only gain. This could have been a console with personality-Nintendo could have felt _fun_ again. Instead, they've opted to sell their company's soul for $10 a user. It just feels like such missed potential...
Esp if playing the minigames and stuff unlocked ways to customize and play around with the space. Like, collect all the stamps in an area? Here’s some background options. Got 5 gold medals? Here’s a silly hat for your guy. Finish the car demo? Now you can drive it around.
Reading everyone's fun ideas is the real tragedy about this entire fiasco
people would've complained about it feeling like a toy and not a console, the same way people preferred getting the console with the grey joycons because it looked more sleek and modern
@governor1386 people said this, people said that. People say a lot of things, because they are not an unitary concept
@eazy___4032 i mean true, but at the very least this idea would make the home menu pretty clunky. like unless if there was a way to disable it, it'd be very annoying to navigate through i'd imagine
I have never seen a game be like “This part of the game is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FUN. IT IS NOT A MINIGAME”
So here's something to think about. Apparently back in the day, Reggie had to fight Nintendo to make Wii Sports a pack in deal. So yeah, Nintendo has always been willing to charge for console demos.
tbf at least wii sports is also a perfectly fine game
They didn't even bundle in wii sports with japanese wiis as far as i know
Reggie even said that he was mad that Nintendo did this!
@metachirality Yeah. Wii Sports is not the same as this thing at all.
When I got my original NES back in ancient times, it had mario and duck hunt packaged on top of two controllers and a gun and that was the downgraded version.
The fact this isnt free with the console is a crime
Even if it was free with the console I wouldn't be that happy with it. This whole "game" probably took as much development time as Wii sports. I would've preferred if they just included the mario 64 ds Luigi gambling mini-game or something.
Back then they would show you all this stuff for free as a way to get you interested in their product and to explain why you should buy their product over the others competitors on the market.
Now YOU the consumer get the PRIVILEGE of paying Nintendo to show you why their product is genius by playing minigames with little to no replay value. Oh btw there will be quizzes during your virtual tour so make sure you soak up all that useless info you little Nintendo piggy.
It's unethical. Shame on Nintendo.
Its monopoly at its finest
At least crime achieves something meaningful.
This software is complete waste of time, RIP for whatever department developing this.
*If someone robbed you of 10 euros, at least you’d have a fun story to tell at parties.*
If you mention this in any social setting, you get instant ostracization.
Yes but you can put that you completed the Nintendo switch 2 welcome tour final quiz on the qualifications section of your CV.
"I'd rather be robbed of €10" is a crazy statement. (And depressingly true)
@misskalculationIf they had a knife it instantly nets you both sympathy and toughness - if you tell them you bought this, you get an "oh, wow, really?" in an effort to be polite.
Idk what social settings you are in but I can totally imagine me and some other people having a conversation about how shit the thing is
Is it really a robbery when its nintendo fans you're talking about
They could have advertised this as a 6 piece puzzle and people would still buy it
In Nintendo’s defense, this was probably the craziest tech demo the investors experienced
"i hope the exhibition vontinues to engage and entertain" are such corporate hellscape words to end on
We all love consuming products, dont we all?
I know *I* do, fellow consumer! I love corporate slop
I sure do love my HD rumble 2 parts! So much more rumbley than the HD rumble parts of the switch 1!
Mmmm!!1! Yummy yummy slop! 😊
I love my corporate overlords!! ☺️❤️
Mmm, products.. My favorite flavor is honey mustard
“I am lightning, the rain transformed”
To quote the first SpongeBob movie:
"We paid 9 dollars for this?!"
"I paid 10!"
Immediately getting disqualified for coloring a tiny bit outside the lines is a great metaphor for Nintendo remotely bricking the console you paid for because you modded it
Thanks for taking the hit on this one so the rest of us could experience this as a free exp as should have been intended 😅
Not just Wii Sports, but I still play Nintendoland.
Games that not only came with the console, but were actually really fun
things you can buy with 10 euros instead of this (literally anything would be better and more useful):
- a pizza margherita in a pizzeria + a beverage
- almost 1 kg of hand made gelato
- train tickets to another city to enjoy a different scenery
- stardew valley when it goes on sale
- a book to expand your knowledge
- craft stuff to start a new productive hobby
- literally anything else than this
I'd rather throw 10€ in the bin than paying a greedy, hostile, anti-consumer megacorp like Nintendo to view marketing material for a product I ALREADY OWN!
Also could get Undertale, Fallout: New Vegas, Fear and Hunger, Fields of Misteria, Portal, Terraria, or Phoenix Wright trilogy
Think this game was just designed to prey on grandparents who don't know any better.
You could get like 50lbs of potato
You could get 40 gumballs! Or a... single carton of eggs.
Also 15 bananas on amazon
This tech demo was made for the old ceo members of nintendo that have never actually played a game and this was to introduce to them
I cannot believe that asking the question "what shape is a wheel" is actually a piece of content in this gam- sorry not a game, tech demo.
0:17 The first notes of the music are gaslighting me thinking it's Green Hill Zone
Hehehe
I thought the same thing. What a way to start the experience.
"Green Hill's looking a lot more like Greedy Hill right now!"
I’m sure Siivagunner is already working on a rip where that’s the joke
Sega does what Nintendon't like....
- Not having a $10 Demo
- Not allowing games to still be digital in a physical case.
- Have their party racer cost $80 base.
- Butcher flagship RPGs appeal
- Create lawsuits based on common game mechanics.
- Hiring fan-devs.
(Among other things, but hey the Switch 2 can run PS4 level games on the go and have Shitty Discord but as a trial feature.)
13:42 Everyone in chat, both in the discord and twitch, were absolutely dying when this minigame happened
18:29 This question is so amazingly obvious that I initially overthought it. "No way they just asked what the shape of a *Wheel* is, there's gotta be more to this."
as someone who studied game dev, most "minigames" are just first fast projects one would do to learn how to create a game. This surely doesn't feel like it should cost any amount of currency other than free
yeah, a lot of these demos seem to be set on the default area the 3d modelling software puts you in, they just threw a few visual effects into the mix
And yet, Nintendo found a way to even monetize their lowest paid developer student projects.
yeah i felt like i was watching Unity tutorials or some shit
To think this was a worse experience than even the _Minecraft Story Mode_ episode that was little more than a bunch of RUclipsr cameos. That's actually impressive, because if I recall RT wrote an entire essay in the comments of that video.
hey don't you dare bring minecraft storymode into this
@travwill7147mcsm was peak ‼️ i have both games for my switch
MCSM was peak don't compare it to this
It would be less soulless if you didn't have to pay for it.
it’d still be pretty soulless considering Wii Sports and Astro’s Playroom exist
@ninjafrog6966yeah but at least I wouldn't feel like I was robbed.
@ninjafrog6966 I don't think that's really a fair comparison. This is an educational tech demo, it has more soul than 99% of live service games these days, it's just insane that it costs $10. Demanding a profit on what is presented as an educational resource is the soulless part. It would be a unique and pretty detailed introduction to the system otherwise.
@ninjafrog6966 those are just as soulless but I don't think you're ready to talk about that, are you?
@vibethecat4194 0/10 ragebait
14:05 Why was this instantly horrifying the moment he smiled?
The fact that the camera, pro controller, and a 4K tv are technically required to 100% the game is wild. Yes you can do the SOS signal and it lets you skip it, but it’s still kinda dumb
^ok i wont
What… what game? There was a game? I thought I was just watching a tech demo…
Tbh you can use any camera, any 3rd party wheel and any tv, so Nintendo cant really make money from it
@SSukram_I mean yeah, but you still have to spend money on those accessories either way. The tv one is especially wild to me because some people have perfectly working tvs (or don’t have one and just have a monitor) that aren’t 4K. Again, I know you can skip the segments, but that knowledge is also hidden behind an npc that’s just like stashed in the corner
i think it makes sense honestly. lots of silly things about this game but having bonus content for peripherals is a pretty neat thing to have
01:59 RT is such a real one for immediately calling out the price of this "game". If this had been $2.99, I would think it was silly enough to get it just to go through once for kicks. But $10? For a demo?? 🤡 Clown behavior Nintendo, absolute lunacy
its lunacy that this is paid at all
Yo lunacy 광기
@FWtherealdeal you're gonna summon them be careful
Its to late @ghost_rouge
The horde had been alerted
The wild hunt will begin once again
@ghost_rouge hmm.. where do I know you from?
1:53 "you know that Stardew Valley is routinely available for 15 euros?" i feel like you can say this about soooo many games and franchises these days...
But why would I want to play Stardew Mid?
Haah... Good games are those that are memorable and accessable and are just good.
Speaking of which, It's about time i get to buy and play Stardew. Friend of mine recommended me to play it when i need to cool down even further.
Have to calm down somehow, especially how happy (mostly ecstatic) and frustrated things have been these days.
@leonishikino6873finally someone else who agrees that the game isn’t allat
@puru_rurin fr bro. I'm just here enjoying Super Robot Wars, not some Reddit ass farming sim
@leonishikino6873I mean yeah, you’re playing a game of a different genre. Of course you’re not here for a farming sim game. Like it’s chill if you dislike the game, but of course you’re not gonna like it if you enjoy playing something different. Would be like me complaining Super Robot Wars is mid because I’m out here playing Blue Prince.
The developers were probably also shocked to learn that this isn't free.
I work for a company that decided to sell a product in two separate parts that are completely useless unless you put them together, and they ONLY work with eachother, but you still have to buy them separately. First time this company has ever done something this stupid.
Let me guess, a company who manufacture left and right side of scissor.
the fact that this is not free software, instead being paid for tech demo speaks lots about modern Nintendo
12:17 as someone with autism
15:25 this is made even more sad because nintendo literally knows how to make this exact thing fun because it was a minigame in mario party 8 where you had to complete as many of theses as you can and it was faster to scrible than to actually fill in the shapes lmao
Fun fact: This is the second best selling digital game on the Nintendo Switch 2 eShop behind Deltarune (at least for June)
This is... honestly kind of insulting. The audacity that they charged money for this. Nintendo is being consumed by corporate greed at an exponential rate.
Please touch grass
Nintendo has always been greedy lol
@emblemblade9245Your mom is better
Nothing wrong with what op said. This isn't a game. It's indefensible.
Kind of?!
11:44 The sound you'll make while playing the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
😭
😴😴😴
@3dThursday💤💤💤💤
"I apologize if I just look like (youtube) today."
Dan. You're playing the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour. I'd be concerned if you DIDN'T look terrible.
It's insane that this soulless quiz and tech demo collection is *one of three* exclusive Switch 2 games at launch along with two racing games. (one of four if you want to be generous and count Survival Kids even though it's a remake of Game Boy Color game from 1999)
I'm one of the few people that is actually genuinely interested in the behind-the-scenes tech stuff that this game shows off, so i was very disappointed when I saw that this doesn't just come pre-installed with the console (and i was already planning on waiting some time before trying to get a Switch 2)
I remember when the Steam Deck came out, and they had a FREE game (Aperture Desk Job) that functioned as an interactive manual to the systems features. Once again, Valve sits and does nothing and still wins.
Not only that, but Aperture Desk Job was also actually pretty funny, too? So it not only was a fun interactive tech demo for the Steam Deck, it had the same humour that you'd expect from Portal 2. For free.
Yeah and you can play it for free on any other device that runs pc games lmao
The Steam Deck had a free game?
@GranaT1337For a short while it was Deck exclusive, and there are some features the game has which only work on Deck (mostly because unless you have a Steam Controller or similar, a PC literally doesn't have the hardware that certain parts of the game expect)
Not just the steam deck, the PS5 came with astro's playroom for free and is one of the best platformers in years
I didn't realize right off the bat that you had to pay for this. I am filled with abject horror.
Edit: these quizzes are giving mandatory work training and I would throw my controller before EVER doing that for fun
I had the exact same thought process. I AM HORRIFIED
i've done work training quizzes more interesting than this
I've said before that the point is to train people to be buzz marketers LMAO.
"This is your startup kit. It has all the points you need to make to sell your friends and family on buying a Switch 2. If you sell enough, we'll even pay you some gold points!" *gold points used for demonstration only
@EmeraldMan25 Sounds like an Egyptian tomb shaped scheme.
@EmeraldMan25 Nintendo recently removed Gold Points lmfaooooo
Did you know that the new Joycon has a new mouse feature?
🎶Let’s go play minigames…🎶
@blackphoenix9000 ssshh-shhhhh-shhhh-shhhh
Reggie spoke in an interview once about how he had to fight tooth and nail to convince the Nintendo heads to make Wii Sports a free pack-in game in the West (it was sold separately in Japan). Apparently the culture at Nintendo HQ in Japan is that giving away a product for free is basically an insult to the people who made it, effectively calling the fruits of their labor worthless.
As someone not part of that culture, I can only say that I view charging money for this as insulting to the consumer.
"Apparently the culture at Nintendo HQ in Japan is that giving away a product for free is basically an insult to the people who made it, effectively calling the fruits of their labor worthless."
Several JAPENESE companies have already done that... INCLUDING NINTENDO ITSELF;
Nintedo is just full of shits.
I guess they don't care about the manuals?
Interesting... maybe if they went with the mentality that both the game AND the console were a part of one cohesive unit (and thus one product) this would have been different
For them, a free game is just profit missed out on and we can't have that now can we?
For sure. Nintendo already had established its brand as bundling a launch title with each console since the NES, so changing course right now doesn't look good to anyone looking at the switch 2 with that brand awareness. Their brand is changing in ways that might cause long-time fans to say "this isn't the Nintendo I grew up with" and hold onto their money.
Fun fact, this game costs $10… the tutorial for using the console that cost $450 is $10… Nintendo loves draining bank accounts dry
YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR A TUTORIAL??
@aptokro3005yep
@aptokro3005Not only that, but also the peripherals! The camera part was using the Switch 2 Camera, there's probably a part involving the pro controller, and whatever else is in the game
It's 700$ here in canada 😂. 110$ for games and new joycons cost 130$ and that's before tax. They have the balls to try and sell this for 17$ here on top of that to make you rethink your choice as to why you spent so much for features that will only be used in one or two first party games :3 my steam deck was 500$ canadian and I have all my steam games and anything else I want to play...
@ButtaDawg6969ITS 17 FOR US???? Oh my GOD 😭😭😭
Fun fact: Wii sports was not going to be a free pack-in game until Reggie explained why that was a stupid idea.
This is because Nintendo wanted to charge people for work the employees did
I miss Reggie....
Wii sports was at least good enough they could have charged a bit for it without making people mad
@Ponicrat yes, but it being included was what made it the family gaming system it was, it was the marketing tactic that let it thrive
You can see it was western Nintendo's idea. After all Wii Sports wasn't pack-in in Japan.
We need someone like reggie again. Im not saying bowser is horrible like some people say, but hes definitely too complicit with the questionable anti-consumer decisions corporate has been making.
16:10
Why is there a Hypercasual mobile game in an officialy licensed Nintendo Game???
Remember to leave this "game" a negative review on any sites that allow reviews, because Nintendo's site sure doesn't allow any criticism whatsoever
For 5 more dollars you can get balatro….
For 5 _less_ you can get Vampire Survivors.
A reminder mostly for the uninitiated that the PS5 pack-in game was Astro's Playroom and also free. So yeah. Imagine a Mini version of a GOTY game packed in with your console for free.
astros playroom isn't astro bot, the goty game
@zymosan99"mini version"
And then you get this, where you have to pay for the goddamn demo
@zymosan99yes hi i believe you're not aquainted with the fact Astrobot is the sequel to Astro's Playroom and thus features much of the same basics in gameplay, aesthetics, themes and vibes, hence why i described it as a Mini Version Of A Goty Game! hope this helps!
@YerologyWhat is even more hilarious? Astro's playroom also takes the "explore your new console by visiting its features" scenario and actually makes it work.
Doubly so when you realize why certain choices were made. As an example, the SSD level is themed around the PS2, for which Sony was pushing a "remove load times" policy on their first party titles, with games like Ratchet and Clank or Jak n Daxter masking them altogether as part of a wider company policy. Hence why you find them in this level as easter egg bots.
...and then you get these quizzes.
"I miss Astro Bot" was my singular thought as well
Completely unrelated fact, but did you know that The Witcher 3 regularly goes on sale on Steam for under $10?
10 dollars for this, there’s a handful of indie game that actually worth your time
Astro's Playroom had a much higher budget, had more thought, love, and care put into it, and everything could be fully completed right away... and it was bundled in with PS5.
This is a $10 tech demo that you pay $85 DLC for.
And it actually pushed showed off what it could do with water physics and everything. This feels like a knockoff game.
You know what this feels like? This feels like an interactive demo that they would’ve given to investors interested in learning about the hardware and tech behind the up-and-coming console.
Actually, no, after thinking it over I think that might literally be what this is. The corporate speak and artstyle, the weirdly vague explanations for all of the features, the extremely simple and rudimentary gameplay, and the constant positive reinforcement… this all just feels like an ad for “invest in Nintendo stocks”
i watched this video for free and i still feel ripped off
Who could have guessed the tour that costs money would be awful
14:15 IDK mapping my face on Barry B Benson might be worth it
The joycon section should've shown you the part in the joystick that fails and causes drift
5:30 You see, The Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour knew it'd have to compete with the Deltarune launch. Luckily with this minigame, you can play Deltarune at home (the Tour 2). Genius design decision, we should all buy another 2 copies of Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
Honestly though, controlling the UT/DR soul with mouse sounds kinda fire.
Ironically enough, Deltarune has a boss fight that better shows off some of the new features than this game does.
9:43 oh RT….if only you were wrong…
The thing I can’t fathom is… how do nintendo actually expect people to pay for this? It’s not even pretending to be a game like 1-2 Switch did. This isn’t even Nintendo being greedy, it’s just… stupid.
labo was still much worse than this
It is both greedy AND stupid. Nintendo are developing a talent for multitasking.
Your watching a video of a guy who bought it l. So....
@_MajorasLabo was… a game, and experience, at least. Sure it was overpriced as hell (as nintendo does) but at least you can get value out of it and I can see the thought process behind its existence.
This is just spending money to buy an advertisement for a console you already own, pretty much. Sure it’s significantly cheaper but you’re effectively buying… nothing.
@TSMSnation I mean, Dan’s a content creator, this is his job so since he made content on it he can justify it. If nintendo were marketing this to content creators so they could make fun of it that’s a remarkably small target market so I doubt that.