Everyone Cares About Splatoon 3 More Than You Think
Everyone Cares About Splatoon 3 More Than You Think:
Splatoon 3 hasn't just climbed to the top of the charts, it's absolutely demolishing them, at least in Japan. Nintendo announced the latest sequel in its party shooter series has already sold over 3 million copies in just three days there, making Splatoon 3's launch bigger than The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Pokémon Sword and Shield, and any other Switch game you can think of.
"[D]omestic sales of the Splatoon 3 game for the Nintendo Switch system have surpassed 3.45 million units in the first three days since its launch on September 9, 2022," Nintendo wrote in a press release today. To put that number in perspective, it's more than the combined launch sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pokémon Legends: Arceus in Japan.
We don't have U.S. sales numbers for the game yet, but initial indications point to Splatoon 3 being one of the biggest Switch games ever. And it's not because it's some massive evolution of the series either. I played it a fair bit over the weekend, and in many ways it feels like the sort of iterative improvement you'd expect for an online shooter, taking the lessons learned from Splatoon 2 and making a more refined and robust sequel.
Splatoon 3's First Splatfest is Set for Sept. 23
Splatoon 3's First Splatfest Is Set for Sept. 23:
The first Splatoon 3 Splatfest event is happening next weekend, Nintendo announced during its September Nintendo Direct presentation.
The competition kicks off at 5 p.m. PT on Sept. 23 and runs for 48 hours, concluding at 5 p.m. PT on Sept. 25. This time around, the game asks what you'd rather take with you to a deserted island: gear, grub or fun?
This marks the first Splatfest since Splatoon 3 launched earlier this month, but Nintendo held a prelaunch demo Splatfest back in August. That event asked players to choose between rock, paper and scissors, with Team Rock ultimately emerging victorious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2022, @08:30AM (1 child)
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2022, @08:32AM
Lots and lots of content. That's the rule.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Opportunist on Friday September 16 2022, @08:30AM (7 children)
I thought I had adblocker activated?
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday September 16 2022, @09:20AM (1 child)
That's supposed to be an ad? At least I don't see anything that would draw me into buying the game. Indeed, after reading it I have no clue about what this game even looks like. OK, some half-sentence somewhere hidden in the text at least tells me that it is an online shooter.
Indeed, the first part explicitly says that the game doesn't bring anything groundbreaking. Basically the message is "This game is a bestseller, but it's not clear why."
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday September 16 2022, @04:57PM
The main feature of the splatoon series of games is that rather than just shooting at the opposing team, you can shoot paint at the walls to gain territory from the enemy.
This was a feature of the previous two installments, hence it not being that groundbreaking any more.
The original game was a bit of a sleeper success, launching as it did on the (less-than-popular) Wii U. That may explain some of the "surprising" growth in popularity.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by janrinok on Friday September 16 2022, @10:55AM (4 children)
Well, we had at least 2 submission on this topic so I thought that somebody was interested. We rely on community submissions.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bussdriver on Friday September 16 2022, @04:05PM
Zelda news... is big enough but something bigger should get some attention. Just so we can be aware something big is going on outside the slow implosion of the USA and Putin's other projects.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 16 2022, @04:45PM (1 child)
I find it somewhat interesting that people are super into this game I've never heard of...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Mykl on Saturday September 17 2022, @07:49AM
And I find it interesting that people like Country & Western music, or this family of people called the Kardashians or something!
FWIW, my son plays Splatoon and has been counting the days for the past 6 months. He has given the new iteration two thumbs up - lots of good improvements while keeping the essential core of the game intact.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 16 2022, @11:52PM
Both those submitters were probably banned ex-soylentils, out for revenge. SN has been Splatooned!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 16 2022, @03:27PM (1 child)
There was always a splatoon at the saloon, so the cowboys didn't spit tobacco juice on the sawdust floor.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by janrinok on Saturday September 17 2022, @11:00AM