Splatoon 3 Direct, 6am PDT/11pm AEST/3pm CEST, August 10th

[Kai_Mao]

Torpoleon said:

@The_Liquid_Laser

I have doubts that this game will outsell Splatoon 2. While I think it will cross 10 million, outselling Splatoon 2 seems kind of hard to do. Especially since it seems like this game is more of the same. I feel like this game will be a hard sell to people like me, who have already put in a lot of hours to Splatoon 1 & Splatoon 2.

@JackHandy

I loved that special too. It was called Inkstrike. Wish they would've brought it back.

I think one factor that might affect this is that the install base is much bigger than when Splatoon 2 arrived back in 2017. Which is wild because it was the launch year. But I think Splatoon 2’s legs just got cut off for one reason or another after 2-3 years and outside of hardcore competitors, I’m not sure if a lot of people are playing it nowadays. I mean it’s no longer a top 10 best seller on the switch’s software lifetime sales. Thus, maybe partly why the sequel was made and that there’s a chance that it’ll do better. I barely see Splatoon 2 in the top 30 charts in Japan nowadays despite it being arguably a bigger deal than even Final Fantasy nowadays in Japan.

And probably another reason why the sequel was made is because of the many changes and updates that were shown in the direct. Not sure how they would implement that ghost and instant match setup system with friends and other users without overhauling Splatoon 2’s online system, which may be a waste of time for the developers who wanted to include more stuff that they couldn’t anymore with Splatoon 2. Same thing with the tricolor turf war and the other customization features. I don’t know, I don’t know other online games simply add those things  years after they launched since I barely play online games so forgive my naivety.

Though they did confirm that you can transfer some of your save data from Splatoon 2 to 3. That way, you’re rankings and such will be based on how you did back in Splatoon 2.