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Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour should be a pack-in. Let's just stipulate that from the beginning. Even the relatively low $10 price tag feels too high for what is essentially a promotional tool for the system itself, walking new players through its functionality and various features with a cute and tidy presentation. Charging a premium for it--any premium, at all--is frankly confusing. All that said, now having spent some more time with Welcome Tour, I was pleased to discover one underrated...
It's fair to say that GameChat, one of Nintendo's purported marquee features for the upcoming Switch 2, did not show well when it was first revealed. The introduction to the feature in the Switch reveal trailer looked choppy and poor quality. While I and others gave them credit for showing the feature in a "warts and all" state, it was a confusing choice to center so much of the presentation around a video-sharing function that looked, well, bad. Having now spent some time with GameChat at...
When the Nintendo Switch 2 launches this Thursday, it will be joined by a lineup of about 10 first-party accessories. While a few of those accessories, namely the Joy-Con 2 and Switch 2 Pro Controllers, have features you won't find in other gear, most of Nintendo's optional accessories have comparable, cheaper alternatives from third-party manufacturers. And there are categories of accessories, such as ergonomic grip cases, that are only available from third-party manufacturers. There's an...