Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, Which Everyone Thinks Should Be Free, Requires $95 of Accessories and a 4K TV for 100% Completion

Nintendo's $10 Switch 2 mini-game postulation — the crippled that galore fans judge should person been escaped — requires you ain astatine slightest $95 of accessories successful bid to implicit 100%.

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is disposable contiguous alongside the caller console, and offers a enactment of miniature games and experiences designed to amusement disconnected the caller hardware.

But this besides includes mini-games designed to showcase the Switch 2's camera, and the other GL/GR buttons which are not recovered connected the modular Switch 2 Joy-Con and alternatively necessitate a Charging Grip oregon Pro Controller (thanks, NintendoSoup) — which of people are sold separately.

Oh, and you'll besides request a 4K TV, successful lawsuit you don't already person 1 of those, oregon were readying to lone play your Switch 2 successful handheld mode.

Three mini-games necessitate circumstantial equipment, fans present report, with a camera needed to play 1 minigame, a controller with GL/GR buttons for different minigame, and a 4K-supported surface needed for 1 minigame and a abstracted tech demo.

Nintendo fans who privation to spot perfectly everything successful Switch 2 Welcome Tour volition truthful not lone request to wage up the $10 outgo of the game, but besides $54.99 for a Switch 2 Camera, and either $39.99 for a Charging Grip oregon $84.99 for a Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller to usage those GL/GR buttons.

One utile PSA present is that the Switch 2 does enactment third-party cameras — truthful you could get clasp of a USB-C webcam for cheaper.

But portion the Switch 2 does besides enactment the Switch 1 Pro Controller, this does not person the indispensable GL/GR buttons — truthful you truly volition request to fork retired separately for those. And, acknowledgment to tariffs, these present outgo somewhat much astatine motorboat than Nintendo primitively announced.

Nintendo has antecedently faced disapproval for not including Switch 2 Welcome Tour with the console itself. An acquisition designed arsenic an instauration to Nintendo's caller hardware and fundamentally enactment arsenic an interactive acquisition manual, Welcome Tour would person been a cleanable acceptable to beryllium packed-in with the console — conscionable arsenic Wii Sports was with the Wii.

Even erstwhile Nintendo of America brag Reggie Fils-Aimé has got stuck into the debate, highlighting the Wii Sports concern from his tenure successful charge. At the time, Fils-Aimé disagreed with Nintendo's Japanese bosses who said Wii Sports should person been sold separately (as it inactive was successful Japan). But Fils-Aimé got his mode for the U.S. and European markets, and Wii Sports went connected to go 1 of the astir palmy games of each time.

"Everyone has to determine if it's worthy their $10 to larn astir the Switch 2 cartridge slot and ticker an HDR fireworks display, and the full speech surrounding Welcome Tour has suffered due to the fact that of Nintendo's irritating determination to complaint for it," IGN wrote earlier this week. It'll beryllium absorbing to spot whether the added costs further interaction lawsuit purchases.

Earlier today, IGN reported connected the contented of damaged Switch 2 consoles owed to retailers puncturing the console's bladed boxes with staples. If you're buying a console (with oregon without Welcome Tour), it's thing to beryllium alert of.

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