A new trailer for the Switch 2 Welcome Tour has been released, showing off 20 mini games and 14 tech demos that’ll be playable to those who pick the game up alongside their Nintendo Switch 2.
Games shown include a timed survival game in which you pilot a little space ship and dodge spiked balls, a match-the-tile memory game, a first-person balloon popping game, as well as a driving game that allows you to lean on two tires by tilting the Joycon controller.
As for tech demos, we see a side-by-side comparison between 20fps and 120fps as a football soars across the screen, alongside a model viewer that allows you to quickly swap between different resolutions to see the shift in visual quality firsthand.
You can watch the Switch 2 Welcome Tour trailer yourself here! Though, it is in Japanese.Watch on YouTube
Plus, a macarena shaker demo was briefly shown, which looks to let players feel how the motors inside each Joycon feel with different settings. We don’t get to see everything in store of course, but we can assume each demo will be dedicated to a specific use case for the fancy new features.
Alongside all of this, there’s also an in-game quiz that seems to test you on all the new hardware and software features on the console. Who doesn’t love homework with their new video game console?
All in all it looks to be a fairly comprehensive overview of the console, giving eager beavers with a shiny new Switch 2 a way to familiarise themselves with its new gizmos without having to pour through a big instructions manual.
However, many still wonder why this game is being sold as its own release, rather than it being included alongside the Switch 2 for free like we saw with Astro’s Playroom on the PS5. The former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime referenced the Welcome Tour being sold for $10 by speaking about the past, when the Wii Sports was released for free alongside the Nintendo Wii.
Nintendo itself has defended selling the game rather than bundling it in with the console, stating that the game is being sold due to the “amount of care and work” put into it.
The Switch 2 Welcome Tour will be released on June 5, alongside the Nintendo Switch 2. It will cost £7.99 here in the UK.