As Backlash Against $10 Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour Heats Up, Reggie Fils-Aimé Tweets the Story of Wii Sports Pack-in From IGN Interview — and Everyone Knows the Point He’s Trying to Make

Former Nintendo of America brag Reggie Fils-Aimé has pointed to the communicative of Wii pack-in crippled Wii Sports successful thinly-veiled tweets addressing the contention surrounding Nintendo’s determination to complaint for Switch 2 tutorial crippled Welcome Tour.

Amid the furore astir the $449.99 terms of the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World's $79.99 terms tag, determination was besides daze astatine Nintendo’s determination to complaint for interactive acquisition manual, Welcome Tour.

Nintendo revealed Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour during its Nintendo Direct past week. It’s a crippled acceptable to motorboat alongside the Switch 2 successful June that offers a guided circuit of the console itself successful video crippled form.

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour is described arsenic a "virtual exhibition" of the caller hardware. Per Nintendo: "through tech demos, minigames and different interactions, players volition get to cognize the caller strategy wrong and retired successful ways they whitethorn ne'er person known astir otherwise."

The Nintendo Direct showed footage of a tiny subordinate avatar exploring a super-sized Switch 2, speechmaking astir the antithetic features and facts astir the console. It besides includes mini-games specified arsenic Speed Golf, Dodge the Spiked Balls, and a Maracas Physics Demo.

IGN has confirmed that Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour costs $9.99 and is simply a digital-only product. That’s importantly cheaper than different Switch 2 games, but IGN has already reported to the complaints from immoderate Nintendo fans that Welcome Tour costs wealth astatine all, with galore saying it should beryllium a Switch 2 pack-in, arsenic DualSense tech demo crippled Astro's Playroom was for PlayStation 5.

Now, Fils-Aimé has tweeted 3 clips from IGN’s two-year-old interrogation with the erstwhile Nintendo enforcement successful which helium discussed the interior conflict helium had with legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto to get Wii Sports arsenic a escaped pack-in for the hugely palmy Wii console.

In the archetypal clip, Fils-Aimé says "it is an understatement to accidental that Mr. Miyamoto pushed back” connected the telephone to marque Wii Sports a Wii console pack-in. As we know, this is simply a conflict Fils-Aimé won to a degree, with Wii Sports bundled with the Wii everyplace but Japan.

The communicative of Wii Sports battalion successful ...https://t.co/LhflSFWaL3

— Reggie Fils-Aimé (@Reggie) April 9, 2025

The 2nd interrogation clip Fils-Aimé tweeted pointed to a akin conflict to bundle Wii Play with the Wii Remote. In the clip from our interview, Fils-Aimé revealed helium “pissed off” Miyamoto erstwhile again with the suggestion. “He was not blessed astir that either.”

And finally, tweeting “and the results,” Fils-Aimé clipped retired the conception from our interrogation successful which helium reveals that each this was, ultimately, the close call.

“In the Americas and successful Europe Wii Sports was packed successful with the Wii proposition. It was not successful Japan, which created a spot of a trial market. It was evident that successful the markets wherever Wii Sports was packed successful that we became overmuch much of a phenomenon. Wii Sports itself became overmuch much of a phenomenon.

“We did battalion the Remote with Wii Play. And it became the 5th best-selling portion of bundle successful the past of the Wii.”

And the results.https://t.co/xrFTDeJMQf

— Reggie Fils-Aimé (@Reggie) April 9, 2025

It’s wide to spot what Fils-Aimé is doing here. Although he’s not straight commenting connected Nintendo’s Switch 2 strategy, helium is making the constituent that escaped pack-ins person worked successful the past for Nintendo consoles,so it stands to crushed that it would bash truthful again for Switch 2.

Fans cognize what’s up, too. “Hahaha, guys I deliberation Reggie is watching our comments astir the Switch 2,” said 1 X / Twitter user. “We cognize you would person packed successful Welcome Tour,” said another.

This week, IGN published its interrogation with Nintendo of America's Vice President of Product and Player Experience, Bill Trinen, conducted astatine a caller Switch 2 preview lawsuit successful New York, but earlier Nintendo announced the hold to pre-orders owed to Trump’s tariffs.

Trinen said there’s much to Welcome Tour than it appears based connected the showing during the Nintendo Direct and adjacent during caller hands-on opportunities the media had entree to. Based connected what’s really successful the game, Nintendo decided $9.99 “is not an exorbitant price,” helium continued.

Reggie fought for Wii Sports arsenic a Wii battalion in. Photo by Susan Goldman/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

“It's an absorbing product,” Trinen began. “We're really getting acceptable today, we're going to beryllium doing immoderate Nintendo Treehouse Live segments and covering a batch of games successful detail. That's 1 of them. And I deliberation radical volition beryllium capable to spot done Treehouse Live astir apt a small spot much possibly than you were capable to spot connected the amusement floor. It's a beauteous robust portion of software. There's a batch of large item successful there.

“For immoderate people, I deliberation determination are radical who are peculiarly funny successful the tech and the specs of the strategy and things similar that, for them I deliberation it's going to beryllium a large product. It's truly for radical that privation much accusation astir the strategy alternatively than needfully a speedy intro to everything it does.

"And for that crushed and conscionable the magnitude of attraction and enactment that the squad enactment into it, I deliberation it was decided that, 'Yeah, this feels similar $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels similar a bully worth for what you're getting retired of the product.' "

Welcome Tour is of people conscionable 1 portion of Nintendo’s next-gen propulsion to go embroiled successful controversy, and we’ve besides got Trinen’s effect to questions surrounding the company’s determination to spell for $80 Switch 2 games, arsenic good arsenic going for $450 for the Switch 2 itself.

Photo by Susan Goldman/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].