ESL Go4Splatoon Tournament Winners Will Get A Nintendo NX Console

they literally have no idea what they're going to win.

They all get a free toaster!

Splat2n confirmed for NX.

I registered ages ago when this first opened but I don't know if I'll enter as I doubt I'd win, setting up a team could be awkward and you know there'll be pros out there with their headsets eking out every little advantage and 4 Wii U's set up in one room.

@Grandpa_Pixel There's the toaster.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Day One Purchase for me.

Let's hope they reveal the system this year, rather than after the finals, so competitors can decide whether they should drop out or not.

@allav866 Last time they spoke about it, Nintendo confirmed that they plan to reveal the NX this year, so no worries there.

I knew comment section would be funny on this topic....

Wow, Nintendo really is clueless and don't know what they are doing.
Instead of advertising the hell out of it so people will give a single solitary crap about it, that's the most confirmed news we got about the console - that it really will release in 2017.
So far, it sets up to fail harder than U, which is sad.

Love it!!!

Be alot easier to just save up and buy an NX yourself!

TELL US ABOUT IT ALREADY NINTENDO

Wow...!
The winner will get the first NX ever...

@Dave24 News travel fast these days. It's all about what kind of an advertisement campaign Nintendo will pursue (and how much munnies are they willing to pour on it) rather than how many months will there be between the start of the campaign and the launch of the machine. Six to five months should be enough!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I want it

I love the fact that there is a Revolver Ocelt cosplayer in that pic. He should be the one handing the NX to the winner saying "You' re preatty good". That would be epic.

If it doesn't have a traditional controller, they can shove it.

Sorry, just trying to blend in.

"and each player on the winning side will receive Nintendo's next video game system, code-named NX."

...when it releases in November 2017.

This tournament is a big win for Nitneod and the Wii U. Too bad Ntinedo didn't, like, ya know, keep Spaltoon bundled w/ Wii U and SSB like it did for 1 whole weekend last year and try to sell the thing w/ a price cut rather than just hiding it away while it flaunts 3DS all over the place. Splatoon even got new Squid Sister amiibo. Wii U has legs, but Ntineod keeps cutting them out from under it.

So bizarre to offer this as a prize when no one actually knows what NX is.

I hope they're happy with their prize.

Actually pretty sweet prize I guess, time to go full try hard then for this lol.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Mmm...yummy. (Commenting at NES Toaster) XD

@rjejr Imagine the disappointment of the winners if they find out that it's a hybrid tablet...

@ThanosReXXX if they find out that it's a hybrid tablet...

Well...there goes Triforce Johnson's chances of being the first NX owner.

@Moshugan the same was said about Wii U, and yet look how it ended up.
After such sales disaster, they should hype it up and manage the hype up to release date. Sony did that with Uncharted 4, they didn't wait for interwebz and fast travel news - they hyped it, maintained it, and they have bestseller. Same with PS4 itself.

@rjejr Oh, but it will...
(unless they're just greedy dogs, that'll accept anything just because it's "free")

@YeshaYahu5417 I know, tough crowd. It's gone down as well as a fart in a spacesuit.

Disappointing. I wanted the first NX to be awarded to one of 5 lucky children that get to tour the factory.

Funny how all you people act like you dont know what the Nintendo nx is.you can call Nintendo at 1-800-255-3700 about all they will tell you that it is a console.maybe a little more then that.but not much.and we all know its replacing the Wii u.after the direct we just had ensures it's. Not a full blown hand held.lol wow takes a rocket scientist to figure that out

Im suprised the winners dont receive a 10% off coupon (for 1000 Miitomo points) for the NX instead

@MarcelRguez
This year as in December 31st I bet.

@Slim1999 It has some hype games for it, but overall, there's not that much information to make a decision about it. We don't know what exactly it is(although most likely a console but with really customizable controller IMO). Its sad really, you're talking as if you know more about it than everyone else, when the reality is you probably do not. :/

@ThanosReXXX No, it doesn't matter b/c they'll just be selling it on eBay anyway as launch consoles are always hard to come by and demand a decent mark-up on eBay.

Too bad they'll have to wait for 2017 for their shiny NX. Chances are it'll be one of those early buggy system that may need a 10 hour patch download.

Why is that guy dressed up like Britney Spears?

@Damo I know we've been going at it a little bit of late so I'm going to ask you this as delicately as possible.

Did you consciously translate the rather vague press releases:

"Nintendo's next video game system"

into: "A Nintendo NX Console"

on purpose? B/c the press release didn't say "a" or "console", it said "system", which could mean a console, a handheld, a tablet, or even 1 of each.

If you want to argue that to the general public "console" means either a home console or a handheld that's fine, but this isn't a general audience website, it's a gamer website, and most of us would argue a "console" is a home device and a "handheld" is a handheld gaming device and "mobile" is a tablet or phone. I have no idea what a hybrid would be, probably console, which is why I'm guessing you probably choose console.

I'm surprised nobody else has pointed it out yet. Not your wording in the tile, nobody else on here is as nitpicky as I am, but the word "system" in the press release.

Oh well, I'm fairly confident you didn't do it on purpose, possibly subconsciously, but you probably don't put as much thought into your titles as I do. Even you would have to admit though the press release choose "System" on purpose. Not device, not platform, not console, but "system". That ain't random. And I'd normally blame it on a translation error from the Japanese, but not this time. But "system" does sound like "more than 1" to me. Not that it means "more than 1" but it's a word that's used b/c it can mean both 1 or more than 1. "Platform" would have to mean more than 1. Device or console would mean 1. "System" is used b/c it's the most ambiguous.

Oh, question on your "hybrid". If the hybrid requires a "Dock" to play out to the Tv, doesn't that really make the "hybrid" a handheld" and the dock a "NX Player" if they were to sell them separatley? B/c the handheld is just a handheld then w/o the dock. And while the dock wouldn't be a console - Gameboy Player required the Gamecube, dock would require the handheld - just b/c the "Dock" wouldn't be it's own home console, I not sure I can call the handheld a "hybrid" if it needs a dock to output to TV. HDMI port or some sort of internal wireless Miracast, then it's a hyrbid. If I have to carry my dock to my friends house then it isn't a hyrbid.

@Captain_Gonru I have no time to be bitter, there's sleuthing to be done! see above

Man, I should so make that my next avatar.

@rjejr And prices will shoot straight through the atmosphere, making Scorpio's launch price pale in comparison.

eBay is yet another curse of this wonderful new society that we are living in. Just because you can attach some kind of special event to a device or trinket, people are prepared to pay the most ridiculous prices for it. Just like a moldy sandwich that Michael Jackson took a bite from, or the napkin from McDonald's that he used to wipe his plastic chin with...

@MarcelRguez Very appropriate image in numerous ways.

This in a way seems to almost confirm that there will be a new NX version of Splatoon, or else why would Splatoon teams win a console that doesn't have a game in the genre they are playing?

@Grumblevolcano I'll second that and add:
Splat2n confirmed for NX launch

Surely NX won't involve a tablet controller in any form after the Wii U. I remember introducing my niece to the Gamepad and she wasn't impressed so just used a normal controller because it was more comfortable.

I'm just here to say, "Love the Ocelot cosplay."

@Captain_Gonru You all caught up w/ today's madness? Did you read both of those games are delayed until "after SMR", so 2017? Oh yeah, I see that you did.

If Nintendo ever gives us anything to not be ornery about I'll let you know. HAs to happen eventually. I wonder how long before you get SMR on your Windows phone?

New PS4 Pro is a sandwhich, so you never know.

Why are we only hearing about it now?

NX is probably gonna be a nintenphone http://supermariorun.com/en/index.html

Dagnabbit...now I wish I was in Europe. And not working. And had a team so I could compete. Dagnabbit...

This seems odd i mean at the end of the year? surley someone who who goes to a splatoon tournament must be a big Nintendo fan right? SO if the NX if launching in march wont they already have one???