Nintendo will be a holding two special events to promote Splatoon in Japan.
Here are the details:

- event will be held during the Game Party Japan 2015 on December 31st
- also being held January 1st in Tokyo
- game will be in playable form

As seen on gonintendo.com and originally reported by explosion.com

bet you splatoon will release in april in jp and may everywhere else :P

For us the ND said 2Q but i have no idea when it's supposed to come out in Japan.
Maybe you're right and it will indeed come out in April.

I'm tempted to say March. Makes sense to start promoting the game a couple of months before release.

really cool wii u console exclusive indie called dex got a new trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CY90HeZqqQ

Good to see them promoting it; it deserves a big push to become one of their next major IPs.

I don't know if it will match Nintendo's expectations of becoming the MK of shooters but i think it has a good chance of becoming successful. But it will really depend on how Nintendo markets this game.

So far, this seems to be a good idea.

It may not be realistic to expect MK level of success, but it could easily become a franchise on par with Pikmin or Metroid (in terms of sales) with the right handling.

That seems more reasonable.
Actually, now i'm not exactly sure if Reggie was talking about sales or just in terms of fun.

Either way, doing Pikmin numbers could happen.
I mean, it's a competitive shooter with a single player probably like no other. If Nintendo makes the MP as addictive as CoD, BF or Destiny, then it will ring a lot of bells.

Personally there's something that i'm not sure it can really work in the long run: shooters are really competitive in MP and there's always that tension created by the imminent firing possibility, you know? But in Splatoon that tensio basically doesn't exist because you are shooting all the time and its goal is not primarily the other guy/girl like your average shooter; it's the whole map, first, and then shooting your opponent.

Maybe i'm overthinking this and people will just like that mechanic the same way. At least i hope so. I really like Splatoon and want it to become successful too!

Well, I doubt the "cover ground with ink" thing will be the only game mode, there will likely be deathmatch, free for all, and capture the flag type modes as well.

Then it will be a whole new type of deathmatch, free for all, etc. because if you watch the trailers carefully, a single shot is enough to blow up your enemies.
If you can opt to change to take more hits, then ok, problem solved, if not, i honestly don't know.