Splatoon 3 Direct - Nintendo Switch

@JRRR92 Well, Splatoon's main competitors do even less. Compared to Call of Duty, Battlefield 2042, and Halo Infinite fumbling the ball on updates and adding content, there's a lot to love about Splatoon 3. No microtransaction casinos, sluggish battle passes, or hit registration issues? Sounds like a great deal!

@AhmedIpad to be fair it looks like a more refined Splatoon 2 which I'm cool with but yeah it's not exactly mind blowing to a regular player

@downin Splatoon 3 just revealed unranked ranked modes and tons of more customization. Rotations exist because of the total player count. All people playing ranked in S2 are divided into 6 groups. If rotations were gone, all players would be divided into 24 groups. S3 will have to heavily outsell S2 in order to completely ditch rotations, or else it could take several minutes to start a match. I don’t agree with 1 and 2 playing the same (from just watching top gameplay, the overall gameflow is very different in my opinion. S1 is insanely aggressive, while people try to just farm specials and hardly die in S2) but I don’t feel like arguing any more today, lol.

@LgndryLucas there’s only usually one per console tho

@Mauro Ramondo ikr, everyone is like look at all the new stuff when its what could be a mobile game and a customizable locker. What they needed to do was add new permanent modes, remove map rotation, make everything playable on ranked and unranked, and add customizable weapon loadouts. even though every call of duty is a carbon copy of the last, at least they work as shooting games.

​@Tubdra Bro 😭

how about you make full use of this ratio

Idk if it meant finale as in this is the last part of the story mode, or if it meant just making it to see the end of this games story

Yeah… it’s a bot. Don’t know who commented this witty comment originally, but it stole it, used a click generator to get it to top, and let the fools do the rest. DISLIKE THIS BOT!

@Agent9 also both in Splatoon 1 and 2 and a new mode was not announced/added until a later update. For example clam blitz didint come to splatoon 2 until around 5-6 months after the initial game released.

@Tyler!? bruh the game hasn’t even come out yet, and the game has so much amazing things, why criticize it on the small things it hasn’t done? Sure there’s no new game mode, hopefully they’ll add one in a future update, but I’m happy with what we have. And this game is not trash, it highly expands on splatoon 1 and 2 and adds a lot of new content, how is this trash?

@PalmTreeTV pp

@Game Seeker yes it's called nintendo online

@GoldenKimchee this Unsung hero

Thank the script writer

Nintendo multiplayer needs a subscription like Xbox Live or Ps Plus right

Agreed!

LOL, the copy pasta is hilarious (*^o^*)

This has multiplayer because the last one didn’t i didn’t finish the video

@E D Don't forget a story mode promising to conclude the long-running Octarian story-line, even more customizing options than ever, 2 new skills to shake up even the most die-hard pro players with likely countless new strategies to employ using them, ACTUAL good local play options for once, and to top it off a MASSIVE twist on the classic Splatfests that actually give losing teams a chance to make a comeback and force the winning team to fight it out to prove their superiority...bottom line there's a surprising amount of new things here so starting with just 8 new maps (which that alone is pretty impressive if you ask me) and 2 new weapon types (sure to make for some epic new strategies) is hardly cause for concern (not to mention the multiple new special weapons and lack of a home-base allowing players to enter anywhere on the map as soon as they spawn without the need to squid-jump to a fellow player's location immediately...which should also put an abrupt end to every annoying player who regularly spawn-camped just to be a nuisance)!

looks goos

@Jantheking "Only 8 new maps" for you to play with using...How many dozens of weapons are we on by now? Players don't need a new Weapon every week just to have fun when they can hop, squid, and jump between those dozens of weapons. If anything, the new weapon types are just fleshing out the playstyles which the rest of the roster don't 100% cover with some neat gimmicks.

It doesn't have a good amount of content... It launches with no new modes, only 8 news maps, and only 2 new weapon types... If this is considered a good amount of content now, then the bar is too low. I don't get why nintendo loves to release splatoon games unfinished and then give us back the content in future updates. It's just annoying at this point. They did the same thing for splatoon 1 and splatoon 2.

It won’t be the final game! That line of being the final saga was in reference to the single player mode! It’s just talking about how this is the conclusion to the current story going on

i agree!

Yes! I love the big changes but, the small ones matter most! I’ve been in this series since the first. My fav game series I’m so excited!!

I agree (nothing else to say)

I'm glad a feature like this isn't being locked behind a dumb amiibo paywall anymore. The next nintendo console really has to get rid of nfc.

Eh? I thought the load outs are still behind the amiibo wall. Did I miss something?

SPLATOON 3 BABYYYYY

@Gardivanyth, the Great Winter aw nuts, thanks for the answer. Yeah the computing power for multi-player would be pretty high

@pixel patch escapes Local splitscreen isn't really feasible for Splatoon. Possible, but it'd be really clunky & limited in functionality. (Splatoon 1 had a 1v1 gamemode where one person used the TV and the other used the GamePad, but it was a simple balloon battle game with limited weapon and stage selections.) You can still use The Shoal for local multiplayer with multiple Switches, but still nothing for using a single Switch, unfortunately. It'd be cool if there was a Download Play functionality with limited multiplayer from one copy like the DS had...

Love big man

@pixel patch escapes I don't believe so

Did they announce local splitscreen?

@Shadow_ Productions - Jelly :) Yeah, that's definitely *not* what was said. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Announcer specifically said, and I quote, "We hope you can witness the epic finale of this splatastic saga!" Apologies for going full fact'o'analyzer on ya but I can't let this one slide. Saga by definition is, "A long story of heroic achievements." In *no way* does this imply that this will be the last "mainline" Splatoon game. If anything it's a implication that this will be the finale chapter of the "Inklings vs Octarians/missing Great Zapfish" story mode that began with Splatoon 1. Next Splatoon game they will definitely plan to have a story mode, it's kinda a staple of Splatoon. But I'm willing to bet it'll be a new foe that isn't DJ Octavio and the Octarians.

'We hope you'll enjoy the epic finale of the Splatoon Saga.' So this is the final Mainline Splatoon game, until the DLC, and maybe we'll get a spin off?

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Thanks! You rock 💗🎶

Legend.

Thx pal

Talented and I give respect, but Nintendo Directs are so cheesy. Always hard for me to listen to for too long 😂

@Spookies damn you might be right. Now I have to rewatch this and imagine Arval gushing about Splatoon 3

She sounds like the Mario maker 2 voice.

@pimfast script writer wanted to make us suffer

but why did she need make the fishy pun twice

Me to

@Asianxwolf I agree she sounds similar, but I don't think she is her. She sounded very similar to the sony state of play announcer, which I don't think is Ashley Johnson either.

Am I the only one who dislikes over acting? Announcer sucked.

That is a good point she really brought her all to her voice over.

@Gigi Izzy bruh it was Nintendo who made the script and her voice acting was still amazing

@Victory Reviews her voice acting was still peak

Some of yall in the comments talking as if cod and fifa come out w even less new content 💀

Bruh her forehead was so huge its pearl 2.0

@Myth😁 Obviously! Those silhouettes were totally them!

​@blueocean uh sane people shouldn't like things as small as little kids? also notice how your getting angry now too that im calling you out for this? bro like i said get help its out there. little victim.

@Nyt pearl is also short. I KNOW that they r kids, never said they werent, stupid. but the thing is that height has literally nothing to do with this?

They’re not *too* exciting on their own, but all of them *really* start to add up, making Splatoon 3 so much better than Splatoon 2 overall. I’m so excited, and it’s almost hard and disappointing to go back playing Splatoon 2 after seeing all that lol

You must be so lucky for this to be your first time ever. I’ve played since the first game and can tell that this game is more than worth 60 dollars even from a casual perspective

@Cuddlecreeper8 oh thank god I thought this was the end of splatoon

@ZapNstuff More likely we won't see the Story Mode Character of Splatoon 1-3 in future games, they said it was the end of the saga, not series. So if there are future Splatoon games, the Story Mode will probably have different characters.

@ZapNstuff they said it’s the end of the saga. Doesn’t mean the series itself is ending. With salmonids attacking us directly now they may end up being the new main villains

WAIT SO NO MORE SPLATOON AFTER STORY MODE?!

@Rafi Correct. Voice chat would fill the game with cringey kids being toxic.

This direct I feel finally lifted that concern from many people. This sequel truly on its own great level of awesomeness like no other splatoon game. Truly setting very high standards, and that is a lot since Splatoon 2 had put expectations high(after all major content was released since splat2 came out pretty rushed, unlike this one)

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I hope you will make more Splatoon 3 Gmod videos one the game settings are completed for your references, take your time sir.

SPOODERMAN

Don't forget to make the animations ok

Sup dude

You’re gonna love it!

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Thank you 🥳

thank u so much!

Thank you! ^^

You are the 🐐

how do i see you everywhere in comment sections

@SlapsSticks "Um...Yes! Next question!"

Can I be spared in the idol apocalypse but more important question can I survive the idol uprising

@Russell Lapua what do you mean by :"Splatoon 2 was splatoon 1.5"?

Splatoon 2 was Splatoon 1.5, so Splatoon 3 is really, 2.

Sploon 3

splatoon 2 came out 2 years after splatoon 1, splatoon 3 is coming out 5 years after splatoon 2

@Dumahlok yeah, most shooters have a sequel out by next year: if anything Splatoon 3 is late

So soon? Its been over 5 years :) Probably just the right amount of time for a new one.

​@megan kassa :,3 Massive forehead

@Snowlands and it's a HEADCANON for a reason. she looks cute

@Snowlands im ethiopian. i know how ethiopians look like, so that's why i thought she looks ethiopian. it's not random, there's a reason

@Ink Splatter Ay Ay!

@Snowlands fyre looks like a cross between a goblin in a zelda game and a Ethiopian lmao

It’s been 5 years, literally half a decade. Some video game franchises make a new game every year, so this one is long overdue

@Drew Calandrelli ik, I didn't say anything more than that. Me personally, I lost my copy of splatoon 2, so I'll def be getting this.

@Gem Goodwin I hope you enjoy Splatoon 3 and it becomes your favorite game of all time, honestly would love to find that for myself as well.

@Drew Calandrelli nothing you say here is gonna sway me to your side and I already knew nothing I said would sway you to mine. have a good night man

@Drew Calandrelli again, ok

@Gem Goodwin I wish gameplay was different but again if you took the campaign levels of 1-3 and mixed them up I bet most gamers couldn’t differentiate. Go from A to B. How is that different? How do the levels have anything to do with a story? It’s like claiming Mario levels move a story, they don’t. They have nothing to do with a story, but eventually you beat enough for them to tell a story. So yes the gameplay is almost exactly the same. Spray ink and move forward, that’s it. The story has nothing to do with the campaign. Just beat a level that has nothing to do with a story like a Mario game and then unlock some text or a cut scene. Soundtrack and visuals, meh you could literally reuse the same music and it would not bother me a single bit. If I cared about graphics I’d be on Xbox and PlayStation. They are fine on Nintendo, nothing special. The visuals of the NPCs were incredibly chopping, don’t care, but they weren’t great.

@Oliver Grant Yeah, but splatoon is more centered around free updates and adding new content (like weapons, specials, grenades, splatfests) and this a brand new one Popularity does matter to a company and it’s gotten plenty of content, I’d like more also but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t already got enough content

@cheese sticks Could you limit to one reply only? Anyway Animal Crossing is more popular than Splatoon, but popularity doesn't matter New Horizons should've gotten more content.

@Sarkis Babikian Then don't pay for it, go play other games. There literally isn't really much that you can change gameplay wise for splatoon.

@M A. Not different dev teams. Same Director and a number of staff.

@Sarkis Babikian game development isn’t easy. It’s hilarious how ppl love to minimize this stuff. Don’t buy.