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Miyamotoo on 28 December 2015
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:
Releasing Splatoon 2 only year and half after first game!? No, definitely too early, also I dont think they can complete new game is such short time if we know they worked on post launch content. Worst case would be to rush second game after great reception of first game.
Holiday 2017. would be great if they can finish till then.

Would be 1 1/2 years after the first game, and they would still have another 6-12 months to continue to release additional content, so basically the game would be finished 2 years+ after the first one. 

To me that would work and would ensure a strong launch in the Japanese market. Keep in mind too I think this is a bit of a special case in that a lot of people will not have gotten a chance to play the game because the Wii U has such a small userbase. 

In the same way I think Mario Maker should be very early in the NX life cycle too. 

Mario Kart 9 can be fall 2017. 

Yes, year and half like I wrote, definitely too early for sequel. And they have great and huge new IP, they really need take it with care and make really good sequel, not rush it.

If they really want to use Splatoon popularity for NX launch, they could maybe port Splatoon to NX handheld and home console, it would be huge launch title (espacily in Japan because handheld) even its port of year and half old game, and then just released Splatoon 2 in holiday of 2018. But I think they will not ported and just make sequels for 2017. holiday season, even without Splatoon port with new 3D Mario, Zelda U port, probably Diddy Kong Racing 2 and maybe Pikmin 4, NX would have very strong launch line up.