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Hisashi Nogami confirms Splatoon 3 is not in development yet, no thoughts about what's next

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I'm sort-of surprised they're ceasing the Splatfests, then. I wonder if there's any possibility that 5.0 will bring in some new form of communal event.
 
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not starting yet is good since it gives them time to style the third game off the Final Fest results
 
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Splatoon 3 will probably fully start after AC. But I'm sure they are also waiting til after this Splatfest for the direction they want to go into.
 
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I mean, we knew lots of key staff were shared with the animal crossing team, so obviously?

Dunno why a few people thought otherwise, honestly.
 

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None of this is really news imo especially given Animal Crossing. Basically standard stuff. Nogami wasn't going to reveal anything to Famitsu, even if something was in the works.
 
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Not surprising, to be honest. See you on the Switch's successor, Splatoon 3.
 
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I think Splatoon 2 is all we need for now. They can repackage it next year with the Octo Expansion included and continue selling it for the rest of the generation.
 

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oh, so they were busy with AC. hopefully this puts to rest the speculation that splatoon 3 may be a switch title. it'll be 100% worked on as a launch-year title for switch 2.
 
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As expected. They don't have the manpower at EPD to be doing anything beyond early preproduction. Though I imagine that there is a spin off in development by another company that will bridge the gap somewhat
 
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Squirrel09 said:
I imagine that they're 100% on animal crossing right now (Same internal dev team).
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LinkStrikesBack said:
I mean, we knew lots of key staff were shared with the animal crossing team, so obviously?

Dunno why a few people thought otherwise, honestly.
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AC and Splatoon have two different project leads. Aya Kyogoku is working on New Horizons, while Yusuke Amano will likely be moving onto a new project now.

I wasn't expecting Splatoon 3 anytime soon anyway.
 

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Where's that one dude at who would pat his fucking back all the time with repeating Splatoon 3 was coming next year, when it made little sense.
 
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You know what though, they shouldn't be stopping the Splatoon 2 train if they aren't working on the next one.

Would love another awesome DLC like Octo.
 
MondoMega

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Yep, this is what I expected. Still think a spin-off could release on the Switch, but, as i've said for months, a numbered sequel is years away.

Dark Cloud said:
Where's that one dude at who would pat his fucking back all the time with repeating Splatoon 3 was coming next year, when it made little sense.
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lol; i'm glad I was far from the only person to think of them.
 

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A spin-off made sense. That's where this series needs to go. Splatoon 3 saved for the next system.
 

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Can't imagine they'd go "no more content updates and no more Splatfests. Next Splatoon content is out 6 years after the release of Splatoon 2"

Pictured a spin off of sorts coming out in the near future. Guess we'll see
 
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Not surprised. I expected that they would be all hands on-deck for Animal Crossing.

Time for Splatoon spinoffs then.
 
Vivian-Pogo

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Splatoon 3 ain't coming til "Switch 2."

Maybe the team can create another awesome new IP in the meantime. Or a Splatoon spinoff I guess.
 
Mary Celeste

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I really hope we get another single player DLC. Splatoons should be like Mario Karts imo - one per generation is plenty.
 
MondoMega

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Hyped for the Splatoon idol/rythym game coming to the Switch eShop in 2020.
 
DrArchon

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It's interesting how Nintendo treats their different franchises.

Namely that they're physically incapable of having a fiscal year without a game with Mario's face on it, but they seem perfectly willing to have one Splatoon per system.
 

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Next gen switch with MK9, new 3D zelda, Splatoon 3 and New 3D Mario in its first year would be wonderful.
 
ShaggsMagoo

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It's time for Splatoon to take it's place among Nintendo's roster of B-tier, once a generation franchises.
 
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DrArchon said:
It's interesting how Nintendo treats their different franchises.

Namely that they're physically incapable of having a fiscal year without a game with Mario's face on it, but they seem perfectly willing to have one Splatoon per system.
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It is because their Mario games are covering different genres.

Likewise, a Splatoon spin-off can happen sooner rather than later.
 
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