Topic: Splatoon 3

Cartoony Funface is horrifying!

Is this Summer Nights Splatfest Japan only?

@vio I can see it being a worldwide splatfest, actually. So I doubt it'd be exclusive to Japan.

Has the theme for the splatfest been announced? Love the new outfits!

@vio Nintendo UK posted about it so its not a Japan only splatfest
(here's the link: https://x.com/NintendoUK/status/1795379904399233114)

@BingleyBongley Not yet, we currently don't know what the theme/teams will be.

The final catalog reward is ‘Thanks for playing’. It’s done, this is the end.

I'm still very much in the camp that this isn't the last season/bit of content (seriously why would they add all this new Splatfest stuff if FinalFest was going to happen about 2-3 months later) but I do find it very funny how the current state of Splatoon can be more or less summed up in this image XD

Catalog has been revealed.

Interesting, there’s one page that they don’t show from the catalog…

@Croctopus Well, it isn’t Agent 4, actually. If you look, you can see that it is the Megalobraid hairstyle.

@SplatRay001 Well, they still need to add some
surprise in there

edit: I welcome a surprise, but that may just be how the catalog displays that line-of-page-dots under the catalog if you haven't completed the catalog. After we complete level 100, the game adds new pages for the lame mystery boxes that are awarded ever 10 catalog levels. Since I completed the catalog, the game added a little bar after the page dots (indicating I completed level 100), and adds a new page dot for the new mystery box pages.

@Fizza All signs point to this being the end. They're adding the 2nd kits for the new weapons immediately, something they have never done before. If you go to recon mode you'll see there's only 1 stage slot left. They already confirmed Bonerattle was the last SR stage and clearly no more Kings are coming either.. If there was more seasons after this I would be shocked.

@WoomyNNYes Previous catalog reveals did not have that, though. They also did a quick-flip back to the start at the end of those, but not this one.

@CaleBoi25 Oh you're right. I just watched the Fresh season catalog video, and every page dot gets selected up to the end. So, there's a either an un-shown bonus, or a change in the UI for Sizzle season. But, I think a bonus is probably most likely.

@SplatRay001

@vio Well that's the thing: seasons may be coming to an end, but that doesn't necessarily mean new content has to. For example, Splatoon 2 had major updates every once in a while that added new weapons, maps, gear, music; essentially everything you'd find in an average Splatoon 3 season (albeit with smaller, more frequent kit drops compared to 3's all-in-one-go approach). However, once the major updates finished, they kept content updates going for a bit longer with one catch: all the content added was exclusively centered around weapons and nothing else. I don't think its too out of the realm of possibility to assume something like that may happen again where the updates keep going for a bit (maybe even until the Switch 2's reveal/launch) but completely forgo everything except weapons. The most exciting part of each season for the majority of the playerbase is definitely the weapon kits so I think most people would be pretty happy with it myself. We'll see how things end up panning out though I suppose 😁

@vio Another hint it may be the final season is on time-stamp 0:42, we see the titles "Thank You for-Playing". So it's likely the final season, but as @Fizza said, it may still have small "season" like drops of weapons and maps.

@Fizza Oh I have absolutely no doubt more kits are coming. Sheldon's Picks was in both prior games so it seems inevitable Splatoon 3 will get them as well. 2 also got the Kensa weapons. I don't know if they plan to do it, but being how obsessed the devs are with the number 3 in this game, it seems logical for every single weapon to eventually have 3 kits.

Also, I gotta say I am incredibly disappointed no more Anarchy modes were added. Like seriously WTF? It's the same 4 we've had since Splatoon 2. You seriously couldn't be bothered to add a couple more by now? Lame.. I've been playing Splat Zones and Tower Control for 9 frickin years now LOL. Time for something new.

Patch notes are out. They’re… interesting to say the least.