Switch 2 eShop "Top-Selling" Games At Launch Revealed

Mario kart world and welcome tour

Watch Welcome Tour go on to become a multi-million evergreen title, encouraging other companies to monetise instruction manuals.

Crazy Welcome Tour is on that list.. people have no self control 🤪

MKW, Fantasy Life and Civ 7 (double dipped on this one since I have it on Steam also) for me.

Cyberpunk 2077, Yakuza 0, and Hitman for me. (mariokart came with the switch 2 so I'm not counting it)

Welcome Tour outselling an actual game like Fast Fusion?!😑😐🥴

I'm glad to see the AAA Clock made the launch titles. Tempted as I was to be able to throw away the sundial once and for all, I went ahead and bought Mario Kart World instead.

MKW, got the bundle, TotK upgrade, & Suikoden HD collection.

Haven’t played much today, but starting tomorrow around 2pm through the weekend, I will be putting my Switch to work.

Went for Mario Kart and Bravely Default myself. Might grab Street Fighter but probably get a Pro Controller instead.

People actually paid 10 bucks for the tech demo? lol oh man.

Mario Kart World, Fast Fusion and Arcade Archives 2: Ridge Racer are the games I downloaded. Street Fighter 6, Yakuza 0 Director's Cut and Cyberpunk 2077 I got the card.

Mario Kart World, Yakuza 0, Street Fighter 6, Fast Fusion, Ridge Racer & Deltarune

Cyberpunk 2077, kunitsgami later on

My plan is kunitsugami, SF6, welcome tour and nobunaga’s ambition to be my launch games and whenever VF comes out. Otherwise I still have switch games to buy. I will probably try the upgrade games to figure out what to double dip digitally. Since my switch has 2.5 TB it’s easier to continue to buy games there and transfer what has an upgrade to switch 2 as needed.

I’ve just downloaded my Switch back catalogue. Well, as much of it as I could fit on the internal memory until my new micro SD card order arrives next week.

I’ll get the BOTW upgrade pack. Might even get Shadow x Sonic Generations. That’ll probably see me through until Kirby & the Forgotten Land and Metroid Prime 4. I’ll be keeping a close eye on the eShop to see if anything new pops up in the meantime though! Shame they killed off Gold points…

No surprises for the first-party games. Well maybe except for Welcome Tour. Fast Fusion is still better value after all, right? Oh well, it does indeed make for a fine title that wants you to download it, but you know the buzzword.

In terms of third-party releases though, it's even more interesting. I'm guessing the biggest ones are being bought "physically" (aka Key Card) while the smaller-scale ones are being downloaded or simplicity sake.
Nintendo prepared a lot of genres for the launch. Want an open-world cyberpunk setting? Try Cyberpunk 2077. Want a fantasy adventure where you play as a wizard in the Harry Potter universe? Hogwarts Legacy is waiting. Wanna try Yakuza 0? It feels good to play! Or the trending fighting game? You gotta play SF6. And don't forget Split Fiction, a game that uses the most of the joy-cons
It's a smart strategy, though one I hope doesn't feel too overwhelming to negatively affect the relevance of some titles. That was after all one of the Wii U's first mistakes that affected its reputation among developers. Of its 22 launch titles, only 5 or so of them actually became profitable.

Either most people just do not care about Welcome Tour actually being paid, or we have imposters among us. I got the Mario Kart bundle, picked up Cyberpunk and SF6 physically, and downloaded Fast Fusion

I ended up getting the Mario Kart World bundle for my Switch 2, but honestly, I haven't even touched MKW yet. I'm too busy enjoying the frame rate and resolution upgrades to my Switch 1 library. Pokemon and Hyrule Warriors in particular.

Welcome Tour as the 1st top selling digital game? REALLY?
As much as I don't care about Monster Hunter... Monster Hunter Rise now costs 10 bucks, and it's definitely a better deal!

Picked up the MK bundle and enjoying. Waiting for the Cyberpunk comparisons/reviews to come in & might pick up over the weekend

Just Mario Kart World (Bundle) and BotW/Tears upgrades (family plan) for me right now. I'm too busy jumping between those, maybe I'll boot up Scarlet soon too. I'm happy to see so many more people getting to play Yakuza 0 though! You're seriously in for an incredible time.

Glad to see people buying Kunitsu-Gami! I love when companies just make standalone, one-of-a-kind games out of nowhere.
It'll be Fast Fusion for us when our Switch 2 arrives tomorrow, and MKW with the system, of course.

Considering 1-2 Switch had a lot of sales, I'm not surprised Welcome Tour have many sales too, it is more interesting than 1-2 Switch and about 1/5 of the price.

It looks like Wild Hearts managed to flop twice XD

@Spaceman44 Nintendo branded cardboard.. all I’ll say..

@AllBLK the futuristic hyperspeed racer isn’t a genre for the masses like mini game collections and kart racer. I can imagine Wipeout also not having that high sales numbers.

For welcome tour: I’ve seen comments and reviews that it’s not just a glorified manual. Some also saying it’s worth the price. I will wait and see for more reviews. But I think I’m more interested know than 2 months ago. (And also k think pack-in would be a smart choice. Especially since Nintendo he so great pack-in titles years ago).

For eShop buys: none. Haven’t got my S2 yesterday because DHL stopped delivering and said maybe tomorrow 🤬😔

@NinChocolate

Forgot about labo.

You could say that the tech demo has been a thing since the Wii. Nintendoland, 1-2 Switch and Welcome Tour have all been released to showcase new features.

Not Wii Sports numbers (pack in so expected but equally deserved the praise), but they have all done well.

Putting the charging controversy to one side. I expect Welcome Tour to do well.

Nintendo Switch 2: Welcome Tour at number 3.
Blimey, so much for some people saying that zero people will buy that!

@Mana_Knight the opinions of people in here rarely reflect the real world, it's a bit of a specialist microcosm.

@Duncanballs I'd actually laugh if it did really well, I've been enjoying watching the goalposts move every 5 minutes on it.

@WiltonRoots Lol. Can seem that way sometimes!

@NinChocolate I still think Labo was a good experience.

I enjoyed the variety pack builds and associated software. It was definitely Origami on a different level. The design of the Piano still impresses me to this day.

Unfortunately the longevity was the killer in both storage of the builds and the long term durability of the material.

Nice! Glad to see Welcome Tour being given a fair shake. I'm playing Yakuza 0 and Cyberpunk while I wait for Mr. Kart to arrive tomorrow. Maybe when it shows up I'll be sad that Yakuza has to share time with it.

Welcome Tour really is the second best first party Switch 2 exclusive at launch day!

I purchased it along MarioKart World (bundle) and BotW / TotK Switch 2 editions (the free NSO upgrades) and I downloaded the GameCube app. (and redownloaded a lot of Switch stuff)

People acting surprised here that Welcome Tour did well is funny. It’s $10 and there is NOTHING new on S2 that isn’t a port besides Mario Kart World specifically for the Switch 2. People are gonna touch the new toys.

I think people forgot that crap like 1-2 Switch did good purely because it was a launch title with little competition as well.

1. Mario Kart World (bundled code)
2. Welcome Tour (yes, believe it or not it's worth its price)
3. BotW and TotK Switch 2 Edition upgrades (got them free with the NSO subscription for now)
4. Hogwarts Legacy Switch 2 Edition upgrade (10€ more)
5. No Man's Sky Switch 2 Edition upgrade (free)

I already planned to get Kunitsu-gami later on and Kirby and the Forgotten Land Switch 2 edition upgrade on release, but Metroid Prime 4 has an absolute priority.

Looks like whoever it was at the NOA that bet the Japanese office that people would pay for an instruction manual and not in any way hold it against the company that such a thing exists won that bet. Gratz, man.

I think that if you're in the fan space, whether that is as a Nintendo fan or general gaming fan, we struggle to remove ourselves from that bubble and we're probably to consumed by the groupthink too realise that for the average consumer, Welcome Tour is the cheapest Switch 2 Exclusive and might be an attractive option on their brand new console

I'm glad to see Cyberpunk there, but why on earth is Welcome Tour there.

Make it make sense!

Sounds about right. All I played today was MKW and TotK Switch 2 edition 😅

Spent longer playing Welcome Tour than MKW yesterday and I'm not ashamed!

@chardir Same! 😊

I bought Welcome Tour. No regrets.

And no judgement of people who have decided against it or that have decided to wait.

Welcome Tour is a lot of fun and actually very interesting. I love the quizzes on what you've learned and the 3D helicopter game! It doesn't really matter what a bunch of people who haven't played it think, many of which don't seem to even understand what it is.

It's not an instruction manual (it's about how it works, not how to use it) nor is it just a tech demo. It includes 20 mini games besides the 14 tech demos which are a separate thing that. You earn trophies in the games to proceed and can get higher ones and try to beat your high scores etc.

I'm not saying it wouldn't have been better as a pack in but let's not misrepresentat what it is nor tell others how to spend their money or what they should or shouldn't find fun.

Surprised hitman isn’t in, I’m hyped for the new bond game and always wanted to play hitman

@Arawn93 Fast Fusion and Survival Kids are exclusives too.

“And although it hasn't gone down well as a paid product, Welcome Tour is in third place.”

The internet isn’t a real place. The game is not a paid tutorial, it’s a minigame collection and museum

@Overzeal Exactly. I'm beginning to think some are willfully misrepresenting it on purpose for some reason.

@Overzeal Yup. Also it's certainly not an 'instruction manual' either. It's really well put together and fun to play. I'm really enjoying it.

@Suketoudara outrage generates clicks, innit.

Well. It did.

@Duncanballs i can respect that experience

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune I dont think you know the meaning of vaporware, dude.

I got MKW in the bundle and Street Fighter 6 Year 1 & 2 Edition. I won't spend money on an instruction manual that should've been part of the package.

Is it only mine Switch 2 that freezes if I try to wake it with detached joycons? Dock light turns on but nothing on screen. If I take it out, screen remains off, all unresponsive. I can only soft reset and wake up with the cable

Welcome Tour is fun, has loads of mini games, and costs a measly £8. No wonder it’s doing so well. I’ve enjoyed it so far, although of course it would have been a brilliant pack-in title.

@ferryb001
It's a shame. It's the only one I picked up beyond my bundled Mario Kart and spent more time with it than MKW yesterday.

I’ve got MK World - let’s face it probably most early adopters have as wel! - Welcome Tour which although it should be free, is actually a really well put together demo of what the new system does and can do - some of the mini games are pure Nintendo happiness makers? , I’ve tried the SF 6 demo and have to say playing that in handheld mode is awesome!

My favourite purchase so far though is Fast Fusion! What a game. Fast RMX is still one of my fave games on the OG Switch and I hope it gets more love - it truly deserves it, it really does!

Finally, playing ARMS again and with the updates.l, it’s smoother than ever and this deserves a second shot at glory because it is such an underrated IP.

@Overzeal

The game is not a paid tutorial, it’s a minigame collection and museum

Exactly! But people don't seem to get it. They seem to mistakenly associate a low price with a worthless product, yet they complain when they see the prices inflated to 70-80 € lol

Fast Fusion is fantastic in performance, value and gameplay. It deserves a place in every Switch 2.

@Spaceman44 that's so sad, it will encourage Nintendo and other console maker to do the same.

Welcome Tour haters are in tears!!

I downloaded Mario Kart and the Welcome Tour. I am thinking about Deltarune but I think I had my fill of the series already.

That’s great but when will we know numbers?
Million downloads etc

While I agree 100% Welcome Tour should have been a pack in title, I did get it and I enjoy it so far.
Minigames are fun, tech demos are cool, the whole learning about console thing is actually interesting. I got my money's worth.

Not at all surprised Mario Kart World is number 1, but I AM surprised Deltarune is at number 4!

I’m one of the bad seeds! Got Welcome Tour,, I love it and think it’s worth $10 tho definitely agree it should’ve been a pack in, knowing Nintendo, we just sometimes have to succumb to their greed. Boycotting won’t work with them I fear:/

Other than that I got MKW bundle, Suikoden and Cyberpunk on physical (had to support cd project red for putting it in the cart and they surprised me w a lil sticker pack— wish all companies included lil packets or something of the sort)! I’m an exclusive switch player so to be able to play something “next gen” like this is a game changer. Loving it so far

Makes me happy to see TotK beating out BotW for a change. By far the better game, IMO, despite the general consensus to the contrary.

@Suketoudara Totally agree with you. Those saying it’s an instruction manual really are mindless sheep.

It’s a fun little day one game that’s surprisingly interesting, and is a great way to learn things about the Switch 2 I’d never have thought about. The tech demos are cool, and the mini games are addictive and more challenging than I thought they’d be. There’s also a lot more content than I imagined and it just feels very polished, and very Nintendo.

For those out there who didn’t want to spend one or two coffees on it, your choice, and your loss, but don’t criticise those who are enjoying it, and feel it’s worth the £7.99 (and just because Sony gave Astrobot for free, doesn’t mean everyone has to do the same. Sony also charge a lot more for online services, so should Nintendo?)

Is the shop totally swamped with shovelware yet?

I got the MKW bundle, so downloaded that (side note: S2's download speeds are ridiculous; my MKW downloaded and installed in like 12 minutes!), Fast Fusion, and Welcome Tour. (another side note: Welcome Tour is not just a manual - hell it's actually pretty useless as a manual because normal manuals let you turn the page to the next section; they don't expect you to walk a character to the next section, and in general it's not laid out like a manual.)
Fast Fusion is amazing and looks so good.
MKW is going to take me a long time to work through, and I love that.
Welcome Tour is a fun way to learn some cool information about the system and is wicked fun, whatever people want to cry about regarding the price.

I begrudgingly grabbed Fantasy Life (didn't want a digital version) because my Rune Factory collectors edition is apparently delayed another two weeks and I find this out on Switch 2 launch day.

@Wraggadam1 Also was Astros Playroom really "free" or did Sony just increase the price of the system? I suspect that's the case with most "free" pack in games.

Now confirmed why Welcome Tour wasn't free. Enough people will buy it! Even if just 1 million sales, that's $10 million in revenue. If only Nintendo would make their retro games available for sale, they would get even more revenue! 🤭🧐

This is exactly why Nintendo didn’t make Welcome Tour free. They just know their audience, man.

All the stink about Welcome Tour only for the game to outsell the likes of Kunitsu-Gami and digital Cyberpunk at launch. Fandom Controversies 101.

@Suketoudara 1-2 Switch as a pack-in absolutely would have raised the console price by $50. I am glad they didn’t do that.

Honest question for those that think Welcome Tour should have been a pack-in title. Would you get rid of the Mario Kart bundle? I can’t see them having two pack-in games.

@nhSnork happens all the time in places like here, never makes the slightest bit of difference. Storms in teacups.

@Kwyjibo_Kitsune I don't think you know what hyperbole means either...

@Grim So the only 2 switch 2 games?

I paid $10 for Welcome Tour, but saved $30 with the Mario Kart World bundle.

@Debo626 The download speeds are depending on your internet speed...

@Suketoudara

It was really free.

@Wraggadam1

The only reason why Nintendo charge less for their online service is because their online service is supbar crap compared to their competitors.

@DwaynesGames my thing with Welcome Tour is that it looks fairly on par with the games the 3DS came with. There were the Mii Plaza minigames, the AR card thing, and Face Raiders. So did those 3 games raise the cost of a 3DS? I guess they must have. At $10 though, it doesn’t feel like something that should be an extra purchase when Nintendo has included similar games with a system before.

And as far as the bundle, the 3DS had bundles that included Mario Kart or Animal Crossing or whatever and they still included the other pack-in 3DS games. PS5 does the same thing where Astro Bot is still included even if you get a bundle. I guess the Mario Kart bundles wouldn’t cost $10 more then if that’s what Nintendo is valuing Welcome Tour at.

I don’t begrudge anyone for buying the game, but it is a hard pill to swallow when other game companies — and Nintendo themselves in the past — have included such titles for free.

@Hero-of-WiiU

So where are they? I don’t see any tears here.

@Spaceman44 in what way? I can play online, and I can have access to a quality selection of retro games from Nintendo’s history. Plus access to some DLC at no additional cost.

Lack of stability for some of Nintendo’s online games like Smash Bros which was a lag fest.

Welcome Tour has been surprisingly informative, but almost all of the "micro-games" are mouse based, or at least most of them. I enjoy the demos and the variations in them. It's a great way to get to know the ins and outs of the system without fully tearing it down yourself. It's fun and informative, but maybe not for everyone since it is a lot of reading and younger players may not be able to read everything it provides. Just my thoughts so far.

You’d think maybe the people repeating “instruction manual” slander would have some circumspection and consider why the game appeals to so many people. But alas.

i'm so happy deltarune is doing well, its so fun

@Spaceman44
Either on X, Youtube, or any previous articles about this game. Not hard to find

@Peteykins Yes. It really just feels like the switch 1 eshop content is all there, plus the switch two stuff.

Glad to see people enjoyed the Welcome Tour. It is for sure a great game and interesting when it comes to the Switch 2. Very impressive.

@Hero-of-WiiU

Ah i thought you were talking about this thread. My mistake.

@NolandC I understand that. My internet speed from my provider is 600 mbps up and down. With Switch 1 using a wired connection straight to a high speed router, or when using said router's fast 5G Wi-Fi, I could get around 95 down/55 up max, and usually less. And that's in the living room with the router. With Switch 2 on the same 5G Wi-Fi from the same router, I was getting 200+ down, 100+ up in my bedroom with weak signal. Almost 400 down, 200 up on the wired connection. So in my short experience with Switch 2 thus far, it is actually quite a bit faster than Switch 1 as fast as internet speed goes.

I got the MKW bundle, so I am not sure if my activation counts.

However, I immediately bought the TotK upgrade. I first booted it up before the upgrade (default SW1 performance), bought it / downloaded the upgrade, and have yet to boot it up. Excited to see it run at 60fps on my LG OLED tv.

Not sure if I should start a new play-through. I stopped after 30hrs on SWOLED and eager to get back at it!

Also, now way in heck am I buying Welcome Tour. I watched a bit of MinMaxx (Game Informer) play it and they ripped it apart in their weekly podcast.

I bought Welcome Tour for £10 and I don't regret it at all. Great fun for hours. The game costs time, effort, and money, so I don't mind paying a small amount.

1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10. And will go for 7 I think.

The only thing i do not understand is why people are surprised about others paying 10 bucks for a demo but on the other hand pay the price for mario kart without thinking what they actually do with that purchase. Strange times we live in....

Mine came with MKWT. And I have the NSO Expansion Pass so I downloaded the upgrade for Tears of the Kingdom.

But I haven’t bought any native software for the system yet. Plan is to wait for the first games to go on sell and then get a few. I’m playing alot of Switch OG games I never finished right now in addition to Mario Kart.

@HeadPirate The opposite actually. This was almost certainly forced from Nintendo Japan. NOA are more likely to have pushed for it to be a pack-in

Got to confess that 'second Zelda upgrade' confused me at first. I thought they had released another upgrade on top of the upgrade, didn't even consider they were referring to the sequel, Tears of the Kingdom.
I'm ashamed of myself

Welcome tour doesn't do that bad, considering everyone is pissed that it isn't a pack-in.

@Debo626 S2 it has a wifi 6 card. Do you have a wifi 6 router?

@NolandC I'll be honest, I'm actually not sure. It's. It a brand new router, but it has a max speed of 1,300 mbps with the 5G network. I'll check, but right now, the S2 is faster every time I test it. I've gotten up to 593 down and 240 up on one test. 😳

@Liam_Doolan
Has it been noticed in other currencies that some Upgrade packs are cheaper than the difference in S1 vs S2 game price?

For examples, and I apologize I'm not techy enough for photos, in Canada the eshop shows the following:
ToTK S2 Ed = $115
ToTK S1 $90 + $15 upgrade pack = $105

BoTW S2 = $100
BoTW S1 $80 + $15 upgrade pack = $95

And I believe Kirby was something similar.

Why would they bother with this? It seems very odd to have some S2 editions more expensive than 1 + expansion.