Splatoon Details - No Gear Transfer, No Custom Private Matches, Other Details

[sundin13]

t3mporary_126 said:

Well for starters, we don't know if the lack of custom matches mean we can't choose what stage or game mode (Turf/Splatzone) to play. And if these are still the only customizable features in the lastest demo that IGN played with, then this could be what they're referring to.

If IGN was able to try out some cool new things that could be customizable but could not talk about it, I'm going to trust their judgment that the lack of customizing that is a negative as well. This could be possible too since they only gave one sentence about the lack of private custom matches with friends.

While I will admit that IGN worded it terribly, there is no reason to assume that. Customization in Smash more centered around toggling specific items, and in Brawl, there were things like "Giant Bunny Eared" matches (not sure if they are in Smash 4). I think we can expect multiplayer in Splatoon to be fairly similar to Mario Kart 8 multiplayer (you can pick the stages and your character and whatnot, just you can't mess with the ruleset).

Like you said, it was only one sentence of the article. They didn't exactly make a big deal out of it.