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curl-6 on 05 September 2022
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tbone51 said:
curl-6 said:

The boost from a new hardware edition is a bit different from the boost gained from a sequel to a game already on the same hardware though; I have no doubt Splatoon 3 will cause a bump, but I'm unsure whether it will exceed the special edition OLED bump as the Switch has been out for a long time now and the vast majority of folks with interest in Splatoon 3 may already own the hardware.

Guess we'll have to wait and see.

Splat oled edition is the sku of this year, splat3 is going to be the upgrade title. OG is at 18mil+, lite at 5mil and oled, the only upgrade sku is at 2mil+. There is a ton of room to grow. Look at 3ds and its sku and you'll see its night and day. Nsw probably has well over 15mil unique customers with 3ds I doubt has over 10mil

There's definitely room for more base and Lite owners to upgrade to an OLED, but I'm not sure Splatoon 3 is the kind of game to compel people to upgrade rather than just enjoy it on the system they already own.

I'm sure hardware will get a bump the week of Splatoon 3's release, but to the same extent as special edition hardware of the most desirable model? Not so sure. Thankfully we only need to wait 10 days to find out.