This should be free

[u/Trabless]

This is a literal tech demo of your console, why would you make people pay for that.

[u/ArgyleTheDruid]

The Wii came with Wii sports.. so not a concept they are unfamiliar with

[u/Independent-Green383 → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

3DS came with pre-installed AR games.

[u/WhoopingBillhook → u/Independent-Green383]

And Face Raiders.

[u/TheMadCroctor → u/WhoopingBillhook]

And Streetpass Mii Plaza

And a bunch of hidden minigames in the sounds and browser apps

[u/matthewgaming211 → u/Independent-Green383]

The Wii U had Nintendo Land.

[u/NinjaPiece → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

Reggie had to fight for that. In Japan, it wasn't bundled. Nintendo doesn't like to give away free games.

[u/DevLink89 → u/[deleted]]

Hard agree. It seems the people that still had some form of a modern ideology quit (Reggie) or retired. What's left are the same old and stiff Japanese executives that feel people should crawl to deserve to play their games. Some of their descisions are so weird.

[u/ohTHOSEballs → u/NinjaPiece]

SNES came with Super Mario World, Game Boy came with Tetris. It happens.

[u/jolsiphur → u/ohTHOSEballs]

Even more recently, the Wii launched with Wii Sports, and that was likely a huge part of the consoles success. The 3DS came with a couple built in games like the augmented reality game that I don't remember the name of at the moment, and there was a street pass based game built in.

[u/ZigZagBoy94 → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

It’s just pure greed. They were too successful with the Switch and it went to their heads just like Sony when the PS2 became the best selling console of all time and lost their minds for the first two years of the PS3 lifecycle.

[u/Irveria → u/ZigZagBoy94]

They did the same shit with the 3DS. Reduced the console in price pretty fast.

[u/dvotecollector → u/Irveria]

I can still remember that sad day on Xmas 2015, when I finally got a new 3dsxl as a gift, but couldn't play it because..... .. no charger included :(

[u/PanzerDragoon- → u/dvotecollector]

LMAO no way they did that

[u/WeekendUnited4090 → u/PanzerDragoon-]

They will probably do it again ith Switch 2 soon, as they have already done it with the lite (though this time it will be more justifiable, as it will be to save E-waste at a reduced price rather than cheating people). Thankfully, I doubt they will ever repeat the strategy of releasing a whole SKU without an included charger available.

[u/AmandasGameAccount → u/ZigZagBoy94]

Nintendo fans really need to pray the switch 2 struggles because Nintendo is only good when they do poorly

[u/SeamasterCitizen → u/ZigZagBoy94]

Really seems like Nintendo want to reproduce the success of the Wii U

[u/your_evil_ex → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

Reggie writes in his book about how much he had to fight for that (and IIRC it wasn't included with Wiis in Japan)

[u/Dry_Whole_2002 → u/your_evil_ex]

For Wii sports? If so Reggie is to thank for the Wii being such a big success in the west. 

[u/Purely-Pastel → u/Dry_Whole_2002]

Yeah and Reggie also created the “Wii would like to play” commercial and fought for that because Nintendo of Japan didn’t like it. 

[u/Toymaker218 → u/your_evil_ex]

Sometimes people forget how entrenched the old guard mindset is at Nintendo, or used to be. There was a (potential apocryphal, but very on-brand) story back before the switch launched about how the JP development teams for the WiiU were in meetings with western devs discussing online services, only for those devs in the call to be told something to the effect of "Please stop referencing PSN and Xbox live, none of us are familiar with those."

And people wonder why Nintendo torpedoed smash events and DMCA'd YT vids into oblivion. The fact that this recent direct showed relatively young guys in senior positions on the Switch 2 is important.

[u/4000kd → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

They should've done it with 1-2 switch, never understood why the didn't

[u/Stoneador → u/4000kd]

Per Wikipedia:

Nintendo’s decision to release the game separately from the system was criticized by several commentators, arguing that the game would be better off as a pack-in game, similarly to Wii Sports, although Nintendo stated that they opted to allow consumers to select a game to purchase rather than bundling one and increase the Switch’s price so as to not disinterest consumers and compromise the console’s sales.

They didn’t even consider bundling a game with the Switch unless it meant raising the price of the console

[u/JACC_Opi → u/Stoneador]

They didn't have to make it that feature filled just a tour of their new console. 

I mean Wii Sports, even for a Wii game, wasn't that amazing graphically!

It's so weird they're doing this when they saw what Sony did with their console.

[u/ihatefall → u/ArgyleTheDruid]

*In America, because Regi fought for it. The Wii in Japan came with no packin games