If you'd like to know why the game's in a post-nuclear wasteland, blame Team Chaos.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/56283/splatoon-3-announced-coming-in-2022
Kids and squids of the world, unite: Splatoon 3 is coming.
The follow-up to the unfathomably popular shooter series was announced at the end of today's Nintendo Direct, with a 2022 release date. Customization for the player character and a pet were shown, as well as new weapons such as an ink bow and arrow.
After the presentation Nintendo revealed on Twitter some additional information about the game. There are a variety of new hairstyle and braids. The small little Salmonid is called a Smallfry and will be working alongside the main character. You read the full thread with these tidbits here.
Attention, worldwide squid researchers!#Splatoon3 was just announced via video transmission. It doesn’t launch for some time, but we learned some fascinating ecological details: a new Inkling & Octoling habitat has been discovered! And it seems quite different than Inkopolis... pic.twitter.com/7YGu7qqUZR
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 17, 2021
Did they explicitly say this was going to be a Switch game?
I look forward to playing this on the Switch 2, because there's no way this isn't a Switch 2 launch game, having a nebulous 2022 release date like that.
I look forward to playing this on the Switch 2, because there's no way this isn't a Switch 2 launch game, having a nebulous 2022 release date like that.
I agree. I'm wondering if it could be a cross-gen Switch and Switch 2 game with a unified online community.
I look forward to playing this on the Switch 2, because there's no way this isn't a Switch 2 launch game, having a nebulous 2022 release date like that.
I agree. I'm wondering if it could be a cross-gen Switch and Switch 2 game with a unified online community.
The Switch is still selling like crazy and has yet to even drop in price. A successor isn't coming out until at least end of 2023. Of course with Splatoon 3 coming next year, I wouldn't be surprised if a successor is closer to 2024 or 2025.
When Nintendo told investors they plan on supporting the Switch longer then previous systems, they're not releasing a successor 5 years after launch when previous successful systems all got at least 6 years. Microsoft and Sony just gave their last systems a 7 year lifecycle so it's not hard to believe Nintendo can do the same. Especially when the Switch is selling better and has more momentum then either the PS4 and Xbox One did at this point in their lives.
What complicates that plan is that Switch pretty much seems to be losing most of what little AAA 3rd party support it had with the launch of the new consoles, now that Switch is nowhere near comparable from a technical standpoint. And those new consoles aren't going to be supply-constrained by bots & part scarcity forever.
A successor isn't coming out until at least end of 2023. Of course with Splatoon 3 coming next year, I wouldn't be surprised if a successor is closer to 2024 or 2025.No offense. That's a terrible idea because it's awfully reminiscent to...
When Nintendo told investors they plan on supporting the Switch longer then previous systems, they're not releasing a successor 5 years after launch when previous successful systems all got at least 6 years. Microsoft and Sony just gave their last systems a 7 year lifecycle so it's not hard to believe Nintendo can do the same. Especially when the Switch is selling better and has more momentum then either the PS4 and Xbox One did at this point in their lives.
Microsoft and Sony aren't even trying to compete with the Switch.
A successor isn't coming out until at least end of 2023. Of course with Splatoon 3 coming next year, I wouldn't be surprised if a successor is closer to 2024 or 2025.No offense. That's a terrible idea because it's awfully reminiscent to...
Nintendo in 2010: I'm sure we can launch the Wii successor in 2012. No problemo!
Nintendo in 2012:
The system has yet to even peak for Nintendo, so the Wii in 2010 comparisons don't work since the Wii as already in clear decline in 2010. This is the company that delayed the GBA because the GBC was still selling better then expected.That's my point. Nintendo shouldn't wait for there to be a decline. Instead, it should anticipate Switch's inevitable decline and be ready with a new console. Nintendo can delay the successor if it really feels Switch is doing that well. That said, I really can't envision a scenario in which Switch rides a wave of unprecedented success to 2023, let alone 2024 or 2025. Historically, Nintendo has rarely been ready to launch new hardware even with the writing on the wall. Rather, it's weathered the storm with its more successful hardware (and flat-out failed with Wii U). Maybe Nintendo should stop doing that.
Of course the biggest problem for the Wii in 2011/2012 is Nintendo moved most development to the 3DS and Wii U, causing Wii software to dry up.Yes, and Nintendo was still bafflingly ill-prepared to launch both 3DS and Wii U anyway. The lack of first party software is always going to hurt Nintendo hardware since that's what the company hangs its hat on. However, third party support was also drying up and wasn't consistently shored up for the successors either. How many times does this have to happen before Nintendo, you know, maybe tries something else?
For third parties, the Switch never got ports of many of the top sellers on the PS4/Xbox and yet that never hurt the system.I fundamentally disagree with this argument. While not getting other consoles' top selling third party titles may not have hurt Switch per se, it didn't help either. Ideally, Nintendo would be actively courting third parties for support.
Releasing a Switch successor too soon makes much of that audience buy the new system instead. Nintendo wants everyone buying the Switch and then buying the successor.Nintendo's bread and butter is software, not hardware. If it released cross-generation games for a couple years, Nintendo gets what it wants anyway and better positions itself moving forward. It should be planning for sustained success rather than reacting to falling into a deficit.