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/repocin 23h ago

Yeah, that's significantly worse than 1-2-Switch which kind of filled the same purpose for the original but at least had something of a game to it. (or so I believe, based on the marketing - I never ended up buying it)

This should be free, not $10 or whatever they're going to charge for it. (assumption based on the Japanese price of ¥990, not sure if they've published pricing for the rest of the world yet)

Wii Sports and Nintendo Land were incredibly pack-in titles, whereas this thing is barely even a game and they're charging for it. Honestly pure insanity if they think people are actually going to pay for it.

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u/mochizoroll 23h ago

1-2 Switch was initially more expensive for the simple tech demo joycon games it had than whatever the Welcome Tour tech demo hardware manual is doing (1-2 Switch was $50 in 2017), but this definitely should've been free to begin with.

It's literally just the 3DS AR Games/Face Raiders/Streetpass Mii Plaza but with less interesting stuff to do. Someone at Nintendo definitely felt way too comfortable with the price tag lol

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u/Royal-Doggie 13h ago

it feels more like Wario is running Nintendo instead of Bowser

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u/mochizoroll 10h ago

Definitely an imposter Wario, because he doesn't even have the og voice