During Nintendo's recent Direct Presentation for Splatoon 3, it was revealed - rather expectedly - that a Splatfest event would take place later this month on August 27th, ahead of the game's full launch on September 9th.
The event will give new and returning fans a glimpse at the game's new 'Tricolor Turf War' mode, which adds an additional team to the mix for some truly chaotic online match-ups! You'll be able to pick between Rock, Paper, and Scissors for this first event.
If you're wondering how much storage the Splatfest World Premiere will require ahead of its launch, then you're in the right place. According to the Switch eShop (and reported by the lovely folks over at Nintendo Everything), you'll need a rather paltry 2.4GB to download the Splatfest event.
You can effectively pre-order the download now, if you like, which will obviously cost you absolutely nothing. As for when pre-downloads will actually occur, however, we're betting it'll commence within a week or so of the Splatfest event kick-off to give players a chance to choose their team in good time [Update: it's been confirmed in a tweet from Nintendo UK that pre-downloads for the upcoming Splatfest will commence on August 18th].
We've also got the storage requirements for Kirby's Dream Buffet, the four-player online party game that's launching in just two days on August 17th. The good news is you'll need even less space for this one, with the Switch eShop displaying a storage requirement of 1.1GB.
So it sounds like you probably won't need to invest in a new SD card for these games - unless of course you've already filled yours to capacity, in which case you can check out some good recommendations right here.
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Will you be trying out the Splatfest World Premiere later this month? What about Kirby's Dream Buffet? Let us know!
[source nintendoeverything.com]
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So wait. Do we pick teams first or during the premier?
@Snatcher Don't know, to be honest! It could well be during the premiere, but allowing pre-downloads to pick sides beforehand seems a more logical option.
@Olliemar28 that does make the most sense. Let’s hope.
There is a short pre-download window, so I think we pick beforehand.
And on topic, I recently upgraded to a 512GB microSD card. I'm good.
@sanderev Ah, thanks! Gotta upgrade one day myself.
@sanderev That's something I need to do considering my 128GB card is filling up. How was the transfer process?
For being a glorified Testfire, 2.4GB is honestly more than I was expecting. This whole article reminds me of a question I've been wondering since checking the eShop page: do we need to pre-order it now in order to play it when the time comes? The wording on the page is so janky that I'm not even sure what on earth to do yet so any help on this would be very appreciated.
Also, another thing from the eShop page: the demo actually unlocks 2 days early for stuff like the tutorial, square and Splatfest team picking! I'll definitely be spending as much time in the tutorial as possible before diving in proper.
@Snatcher The Splatoon 3 World Premier demo will allow acceess to play a tutorial starting Aug 25. (Stated in the expanded details on the World Premier eshop page) I imagine you will be able to pick your splatfest team then, before the 27th.
I'm hoping the World Premier demo will still have a playable tutorial playable after Splatfest. All three Splatoon 2 demos turned unplayable after their set play dates, which I always thought was kind of dumb, since Splatoon 2 only let us play see the game's tutorial once at initial boot up, and that's it. (Unless you make a new switch user save file JUST to see the tutorial again.)
Saw Nintendo has uploaded a new commercial for the game on their YouTube channel. Rather curious how they use the standard OLED model in the ad and not the Splatoon 3 OLED variant. This makes me think that given we only have 1 week until the system's launch, Nintendo has decided to give a big ol' middle finger to North America by blocking the ability to pre-order. Instead it'll be a Black Friday free-for-all battle Royale bloodbath trying to get our hands on the 5 systems that will be made available for the entire continent because Europe/UK/Japan got all of the pre-order units produced. Really disappointed with how Nintendo no longer cares about its biggest market outside Japan nowadays in the post-Iwata/Reggie years.
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@Gilgamang It's interesting that you care enough to take time out of your day to needlessly complain about things that aren't affecting you.
I take it back, it's actually not very interesting.
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@Gilgamang You're right that it doesn't apply to me, it does apply to several people I'm very close with though when people who are uneducated try to complain that who they are isn't real. It's part of my "job" as friend or family to stand up for them, as I'm sure you know as a father.
If the concept of all this confuses you, as an adult, then do some studying, just try to understand how saying things like that might make others feel.
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@Gilgamang If that's what you really think I suppose there's nothing I can do about it, have a nice day.
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