Here’s something I haven’t seen anyone mention: $60 in 2017 when Nintendo set the price of Switch games, is $78 dollars today. If Nintendo continued to price Switch 2 games the same as they were before, it would be like selling them for $42 in 2017.
Hell, $70 in 2020 when Sony set the price for PS5 games is $85 today. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if when the PS6 rolls around and Sony and Microsoft set their new prices, Nintendo all of a sudden looks REASONABLE. That $100 GTA rumor seems pretty likely at this point.
I also think people are way overreacting to Nintendo charging for Switch 2 upgrades. Some of them contain significant new content, and Sony has done the same for years. I don’t see them being more than $10-$15 at most, and Expansion Pass members get some of them for free.
That being said, Welcome Tour costing money is legitimately indefensible and makes no sense any way you look at it. My generation is obsessed with Wii Sports because it was a pack in game and created a universal experience no matter what games you bought past that point. And Astro Bot was so powerful that it snowballed into a full game that won game of the year and blew everyone’s minds!
Complete waste of an opportunity to create a powerful universal experience that gives the Switch 2 some identity and connects its users to it right off the bat.