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.

So much this.  I littlerally shuddered when I read the thread title.  Any game but Splatoon.

I hope not. I made a pact not to buy retail games that have microtransactions, and it would be a shame for me personally to not be able to play this game.

Oh hell no! Nintendo? Microtransactions? cycycychris please.

Trying to get people worked up over nothing, for shame.

You're literally seeing something that isn't there. It's just in game currency. There's nothing that even remotely implied micro transactions.

'nuff said.

I sure hope not!

Thought it was in-game currency.

I will refuse to ever do microtransactions; I don't care if they put it in Bayonetta, Monster Hunter, or Mario, I'll have none of it.