Splatoon going to have Microtransactions?

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Darwinianevolution said:

RolStoppable said:
I doubt it. The way Nintendo has gone about monetizing things, they cautiously test the waters instead of jumping in head first. Pokémon Shuffle is that guinea pig. Splatoon is positioned as something that is too big for an experiment that has a good chance of backfiring.

This. Also, this game has quite a bit of hype backing it up, they don't want to risk killing it with microtransactions.

this x2. nintendo's been experimenting in a very, i think, self-aware and mocking way with microtransactions... i'm thinking of rusty's real deal baseball, where one of the gameplay hooks is literally haggling for a lower price on different bits of the game. mario golf on 3ds was another example. that sold for $29.99 and you had the option of adding 3 new characters and a bunch of courses for 4.99 each character/course pack. so it's a bit of an a la carte model, but always in addition to a main course.

i do not think they will do this with splatoon because it is splatoon. it is their big title before the summer, occupying the same spot in the 2015 calendar that mario kart 8 occupied in 2014's. i think they'll definitely do dlc (this game is ripe for that, with multiplayer maps, etc.), and if mk8's dlc roll-out is anything to judge them by, they'll do right by people who buy the game.

ot: it's in-game money, not real money. dlc will be for real money, tho, obviously.