Splatoon Has Now Shipped One Million Copies In Europe

GLOBAL INKVASION!!!

Hopefully this will encourage Nintendo to create new IPs. Splatoon wouldn't have the same appeal if they went with Mario and Co characters instead of the Inklings.

As much as playing (and losing) Splatoon is frustrating at times, I still love this game. However, considering I still haven't even started Yoshi's Woolly World, yet alone anything else since, because this game is like crack, I've vowed that I'll stop if I either get to S+ or Level 50 which ever comes first. At just over half way through level 47 and having dropped back to A- the other night, never having got past 90 points on rank A+ I suspect it'll be level 50 first... Squid Sisters rule

Still playing, loving this game. Well deserved

Glad to hear it's done well. As for me, I basically retired months ago, only reached I think like lvl 13-15 or something. Nothing wrong with the game; for what it is it's great. Unfortunately it ended up cementing my belief that I just don't find much fun in online multiplayer gameplay, particular those that lack narrative.

I do wish it great success as a future Nintendo IP. Maybe it'll appear in a genre more to my tastes.

Excellent achievement and fully deserved. I really hope this encourages Nintendo to bring out more new IP next gen, and not just more Splatoon. Although more Splatoon would be nice as well.

Nice ^^. While I now only play Splatoon when the Splatfests are, I still really enjoy Splatoon regardless .

I cant believe that they haven't had a cross promotion with subway (joke aside I do play splatoon, but only once a month because I usually get disconnected )

The best new IP this gen
(remember new IP's?! My god what a freaking dull console gen....)

Splatoon is Nintendo at their very best and deserves all the accolades and awards. Fun, addictive, competitive gameplay that's playable by anyone. Hopefully Nintendo will give us S2 on the NX and more new exciting IPs.

Personally I only play the Splatfests now because it's so addictive nothing else was getting a look-in, and XCX was banging at my door.

Looks like Shibata forgot about every Wii U game released before May 2015! Even Smash! And Mariokart!

By the way

Its now at 4m, that means it outsold Bloodborne (it sold twice as much) and Halo 5

lol

If only people supported CN Steam and W101 like this.

I want my rumoured Squid Sis. Amiibo!

@InternetBowser
You can turn the motion control off. That said, motion controls or gtfo for me.

Splatoon is a home run of game design. Brilliant work!!!

I would buy Wii U just for splatoon, if I didn't already have it. I have never been this addicted to an online game.

And I wish, that Splatoon 2 is NX launch game.
Regional servers, local multiplayer(with handheld for each person), perhaps 3 team matches. And I don't necessarily demand voce chat, if it eats bandwidth.

Im level 41 S rank with over 200 hours put into this game and I'm still not bored

I love this game, already played more than 400 hours and that's not even the end! Just recently I finally ranked up again, now I'm not far away from reaching A+ (which was always my goal, but maybe I'll try to reach S too). The update + the new weapons in April will likely add tons of additional hours. And I second everything @Charlosa wrote!

@InternetBowser
When in the plaza, tap options on the gamepad. You could see the gyro/motion controls options from there.

This game is so adicting. 360 hours and I'm more hooked than ever. Thanks Nintendo for this amazingly fun game.

I haven't played this for a few weeks, but I know if I load it I'll be sitting there for hours saying to myself "right that's it, one more go and I'll switch it off..."

Splatoon 3ds game imminent!
Hopefully a 2d topdown shooter (in Splatships)

I've seen a lot of people here commenting that they hope the success of Splatoon encourages Nintendo to make more new IPs. I for one, do not agree with that idea, or at least an increase of Nintendo creating more new IP. I believe Nintendo make plenty of new IP on a regular enough basis (Pushmo, Dillon's Rolling Western, Steel Diver, Codename S.T.E.A.M, Splatoon, and possibly Wonderful 101 are all examples withis this generation) and that the true message Nintendo should take from Splatoon's success is that they should in future advertise and promote their new IPs to a similar degree.

Q) Are you still playing Splatoon on a regular basis?

A) No, I usually only play Splatoon every now and again. This usually means a couple of days before a Splatfest is about to begin. I enjoy playing Splatoon, but I've purchased so many other games that I want to get around to actually playing, rather than just re-experiencing the immense fun of Splatoon solely.

Q) Will the new content encourage you to return if you're not?

A) Not regularly, but I will certainly check out Splatoon soon and probably play at least a couple of days each month. It all depends on how many games I end up getting within that respective month.

@Souldin Thank you. Many people forget that Nintendo tends to make new IPs on a regular basis (unlike most devs in recent memory) ...many of them that are very good if people were willing to branch out of their comfort zone. That being said I hope that Splatoon gets nintendo to put more money behind their new IPs. I love Dillion and Sakura Samurai but how much better would they have been with a bigger budget?