UPDATE 6/6/2025: If you are playing Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour, but don’t have all of the required kit to 100 percent it, there is a handy in-game technique to bypass those challenges while still obtaining the awards.
In the game, Welcome Tour players can come across a character who will tell them how to do just that. Essentially, players will need to go up to one of the game’s nearby staff members and type out SOS in morse code with the Y button. If your morse code has gotten a little rusty over the years, SOS is: … – – – …
So, three quick taps, followed by three longer taps, before another three quick taps on the Y button.
I’m seeing reports that say that unless you own every hardware peripheral for Switch 2, that obtaining a 100% completion rate in Switch 2 Welcome Tour is impossible. That’s….not true? A character in the game explicitly tells you how to bypass challenges if you don’t own the necessary hardware.
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— Kyle McLain (@farmboyinjapan.bsky.social) June 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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ORIGINAL 5/6/2025: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour arrives today alongside the launch of Nintendo’s new console, though it cannot be fully completed without also purchasing extra accessories – and a 4K TV.
The minigame collection has already drawn criticism for not being a pack-in game, considering it is designed to show off the capabilities of the Switch 2. Instead, it’ll set you back eight quid. Even former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime waded in on the debate.
Yet as Nintendo has stated on its website (thanks Nintendo Soup), some of the 34 minigames and tech demos require peripherals which are sold separately.
One minigame requires a USB camera; another requires the GL/GR buttons on the Switch 2 Pro Controller or Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip; and a 4K TV is required for both a minigame and a tech demo to experience the proper resolution.
Nintendo states that all 12 areas of the game can still be accessed without these accessories, but to 100 percent the game you’ll need three medals in every minigame.
The Switch 2 Pro Controller will set you back £74.99 and the Charging Grip costs £29.99, while the Switch 2 Camera costs £58.99 – although a cute Piranha Plant alternative is £34.99 if you don’t mind a poor resolution.
As for a 4K TV, that could cost you hundreds, if not thousands of pounds.
Over in the US, meanwhile, Nintendo even raised the price of its accessories to combat US tariffs on the console itself.
“From my slightly extended but still brief time with it, it feels like Nintendo has created, if not the most wildly entertaining, at least the most spiritually accurate take on visiting an actual museum dedicated to a games console,” wrote Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell on Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.