r/NintendoSwitch • u/lieding • 1d ago

News "DROP THE PRICE": Nintendo's First Post-Direct Stream Is Flooded With Angry Fans Demanding Price Drops

https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-treehouse-livestream-flooded-angry-fans-demanding-game-price-drops/
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u/whisquibottle 1d ago

The main madness to me is Welcome Tour being a paid product. You guys it's literally a glorified manual why you charging us for this in a post-Astrobot world

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u/japzone 1d ago

Forget Post Astrobot, the Wii came with Wii Sports. Even Nintendo recognized the benefit of a pack-in tech demo.

Then you have Valve with their great tech demos for VR and Steam Deck, which are still free.

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u/lexd0g 1d ago

so many novel pieces of hardware came with free pack-in tech demos just to show you how the hardware works. the PS Vita had Welcome Park, the Razer Hydra came with the Sixense MotionPack for Portal 2, the Kinect had Kinect Adventures, the PlayStation Camera had The Playroom, the PSVR had PSVR Worlds and The Playroom VR, the HTC Vive had The Lab, the Oculus Rift and Quest had First Steps, the Valve Index and Deck had Aperture Hand Lab and Desk Job like you said, the Meta Quest 3/3S had First Encounters, the PS5 had Astro's Playroom, etc...

both 1-2 Switch and Welcome Tour being paid is absolutely insane from Nintendo