Splatoon Raiders announced for Switch 2

Is it single player or co-op driven or what. Would be nice to have another great single player next to Zelda, Mario, Xenoblade, Metroid etc. (even if it's co-op too, if it's not only some repeatable round based deal but has a persistent meaty campaign to go through). The first Splatoon had a great single player appetiser but then they went mostly PVP only (though I think there was some DLC thing with single player for one). On the other hand this looks open world-ish so hopefully they can have the creativity of the various levels in the first game embedded and expanded in different bits.
 
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A Direct makes sense for next week. Splatoon 3 Update and Switch 2 patch is coming out 6/12 so it couldn't wait. And Splatoon has been conspicuously absent from all Switch 2 marketing up until now. But I'd forgotten that SGF pours into this week with Play Days, so lots of hands-on previews are dripping out this week.

Nintendo will want to have some space and go next week when they have the entire time to themselves. As they've done every year since 2022.
 
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Console is not a week old, game drops.
It's just a teaser. No release date mentioned. They put it out there to coincide with letting people know that the Switch 2 update for Splatoon 3 drops tomorrow along with a minor update to the game. So that people don't forget Splatoon exists.
 
Damn. As much as I like what I saw, my hopes for Splatoon 4 just poofed. It will be a lot longer than I'm hoping for a new game.

The spinoff however does look really nice and I'm still glad it uses the shooting mechanics as a central point. The amount of times I heard Splatoon turned based game! Made me wanna hurl. Splatoon is a shooter first and foremost.

Really hoping the Switch 2 update fixes the peer to peer connections a bit more.
Well what has been on my mind and what they should do is separate Splatoon between single-player and multiplayer. Because multiplayer is going to always be the same core concept, just with new weapons, stages, music, and events. It's very live-servicey. But the single-player aspect of the series has always been there, but I don't know that it can stand on its own enough to be a $70 product. But having to move the 10 million-strong Splatoon multiplayer audience over to new games every 4 years seems like something that isn't necessary.

They can do Splatoon Raiders and start dropping large AAA single-player campaigns as standalone releases every few years, and have a permanent paid Splatoon live game for the competitive aspect. I personally don't care for multiplayer Splatoon at all but I loved the Octo expansion. And they could easily both feed off each other when one or the other gets an update or new release.
 
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Wii U was a home console and the original Splatoon still sold over 1.79 million in Japan.
The Wii U base in Japan barely even reached 3 mil total, so amazing that Splatoon reached that level of attach rate on such an unpopular platform. 50% is crazy. Splatoon is a huge brand in Japan, to be sure.
 
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Is it single player or co-op driven or what. Would be nice to have another great single player next to Zelda, Mario, Xenoblade, Metroid etc. (even if it's co-op too, if it's not only some repeatable round based deal but has a persistent meaty campaign to go through). The first Splatoon had a great single player appetiser but then they went mostly PVP only (though I think there was some DLC thing with single player for one). On the other hand this looks open world-ish so hopefully they can have the creativity of the various levels in the first game embedded and expanded in different bits.

I prefer the competitive multiplayer modes, but all Splatoons have a story mode. Splatoon 3 is considered to be best for the main campaign and Octo Expansion, DLC for Splatoon 2, considered best overall.

There are some people who buy the games strictly for the single player content.
 
i cant take these dumb narrated Nintendo trailers, its so cringe, they think their fans are 8, but in reality they are bald, fat and over 30+

Keegan Michael Key Snl GIF by Saturday Night Live
 
I prefer the competitive multiplayer modes, but all Splatoons have a story mode. Splatoon 3 is considered to be best for the main campaign and Octo Expansion, DLC for Splatoon 2, considered best overall.

There are some people who buy the games strictly for the single player content.
Cool, glad I was wrong, I had the impression they went all in on the online only but apparently 3's campaign is longer than the first game's short one. Something to keep in mind if I get a Switch 2 (never got the original sadly).
 
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Splatoon was so good. I loved the mini-games offered up on the GAmepad in between rounds. And the game itself was so well done. The paint thing/movement was something I hadn't seen before. The world/backdrop was so well tied to the gameplay.

and the game was fun as can be. And really smartly managed the way they divided up team play, ranked and casual. And schedule the maps and modes so they can get love and nurture. And the modes were actually unique to each other.

I missed the Gamepad part when 2 hit on the Switch. No one more mini-games. Sad panda. And no using the touchscreen to super jump. Although I guess I didn't do a ton of that. The reality of the 2nd screen turned out to be you can only really look at one screen at a time and it's a bit of pain to changed focus back and forth between 2 screens.

I can't wait to hear what Raiders is. Not sure I care about it if it's co-op or sp. We'll see. They might not come up with Splatoon 4. AS someone said it works better as a GaaS. Might just keep Splatoon 3 going on S2. But if they do...they will wait until S2 has a big enough install base. Make sure enough have 'switched' over.
 
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Is it single player or co-op driven or what. Would be nice to have another great single player next to Zelda, Mario, Xenoblade, Metroid etc. (even if it's co-op too, if it's not only some repeatable round based deal but has a persistent meaty campaign to go through). The first Splatoon had a great single player appetiser but then they went mostly PVP only (though I think there was some DLC thing with single player for one). On the other hand this looks open world-ish so hopefully they can have the creativity of the various levels in the first game embedded and expanded in different bits.
I don't see any indication it's co-op. IMO the subtitle Raiders implies that you can play as the Deep Cut members too, if you look at Big Man for ex he's all decked in scuba diving gear and he has a lantern. It'd be pretty disappointing if you couldn't use him for underwater exploration.
 
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