Splatoon 3 Has Now Been Rated For The Switch 2

That's not all

https://www.gematsu.com/2025/12/esrb-rates-unannounced-konami-game-enchanted-wonderland-for-switch

It does also say that the release date was yesterday. I have my doubts that this is going to go anywhere, and Nintendo would be far smarter to spend their time developing Raiders and Splatoon 4.

Splatoon is like a sports game to me, I will get it every other time it comes out. The game is fun

I highly doubt this is Splatoon 3: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Splatoon Raiders. That makes no sense to me. A Switch 2 Edition is unnecessary and Raiders can sell on its own.

Raiders was announced as Splatoon's first spin-off game from the beginning. It probably won't be a great-big game, but Raiders will hopefully be a bit grander than your typical Splatoon story mode. I don't see the game hitting such a big development snag that they would downgrade it to just being more DLC for 3. That update already bumped up 3's visuals quite a bit, and they could just keep adding more free content to 3 if they choose to do so.

PEGI has Switch 2 ratings for every Switch 1 game that got a free Switch 2 upgrade, Splatoon 3 got one earlier this year
They forgot to set a date beyond the year so it defaulted to the last day of the year

Wow more old games. And people on pushsqaure moan about remasters lmao

I'd definitely buy a Switch 2 Splatoon 3 release with all the season updates and grand festival content on the cartridge.

is nintendo going the sony way releasing the same games on switch 2..

@johnedwin This is almost certainly not a full rerelease like the Switch 2 editions as all Switch 1 games with upgrades got these ratings already.

@Dev-N No one even suggested this as a possibility. Obviously Splatoon Raiders is a separate game and won't be downgraded to DLC all of a sudden. No need to even think of such a weird scenario.

Where was it confirmed Splatoon Raiders comes out in 2026? Did I miss something? Edit: nope this is just sloppy reporting again. I checked and it still has not been given a release window.

I just got it for Christmas, so a S2 upgrade with 120 fps would be very welcome.

@HugoGED Never going to happen.

After Animal Crossing, it wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo started pushing out more $5 NS2E upgrades that increase the resolution, maybe even frame rate, though they might charge $10 for that if Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are anything to go by.

@Sylamp

I didn’t believe what you wrote. So I checked the PEGI website for Super Mario Odyssey, which is not a native NS2 game, despite its support for 4k and DLSS. And PEGI mentions SMO also as an NS2 game, with release date 5 June 2025.

The department at NoE for game ratings is doing a meticulous job!

Edit: I had a lengthy „dialogue“ with GPT-5 about this whole NS1/NS2 stuff. GPT-5 used documents from Nvidia and PEGI as basis, so I regard these results as reliable:

• A PEGI classification for a specific platform is needed if the software is advertised for that platform. If Nintendo would say „Buy Luigi‘s Mansion 3, exclusive for Nintendo Seitch and Nintendo Switch 2“, it would require a PEGI rating for NS2, even if the software is the untouched Switch 1 binary.
  -> PEGI rating doesn’t say anything about the technical implementation!
• The information „Nintendo Switch software“ for a specific game in the NS2 menu doesn’t indicate that it’s a NS1 binary. Games like Super Mario Odyssey, which support higher resolutions and/or DLSS, are native NS2 binaries and can STILL be called „Nintendo Switch software“ (and not „Nintendo Switch 2 software“, as it’s the case for BotW NS2E). It’s a marketing decision by Nintendo.
  -> This information doesn’t say anything about the technical implementation!

Really annoying!

Conclusion: A new PEGI rating only means „Nintendo wants to advertise this software as a title suitable for Switch 2. Adoptions for Switch 2 not necessary“.

Most likely having to do with the free update from June and they forgot to add it, not a sign of a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

Cool for people who are into Splatoon, but I really wish Nintendo would just not focus so much on Switch 2 Editions of old games. They’re not exciting most of the time. The only one that really was (in my opinion) was Kirby and the Forgotten Land because the content they added felt pretty beefy and significant on top of the improvements to the original. We’ll see how they justify this and Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s upgrades, but I’m not expecting much.

Honestly most Switch 1 games should get Switch 2 editions.

I think this year might just become the year I splash into Splatoon. If there's a Switch 2 version coming, and otherwise Raiders will be my first foray into the series.

If only Nintendo could use all the extra processing power of the Switch 2 to finally allow the right analogue stick to look up and down when using gyro aiming…

Dont gimme Splatoon 3 on Switch 2 now that ive promised my partner we are getting the new shinier 4 on the switch 2 most likely with the much needed split screen online 2 player mode on one switch 2!!!!!!!

Not expecting anything from this.
(Maybe hoping there will be some badges etc from playing Raiders carrying over to Splatoon 3)

Personally I'm ready for Splatoon 4.

@wiiwouldliketoplay they could be working on it already. Also, Nintendo isn't stretched thin on resources, they seem pretty efficent with their internal studios; especially when they don't have their employees work nearly as much crunch as other places.

Splatoon 3 has only been out since September 2022. We might be another 2-3 years away from Splatoon 4... if it's even coming. Raiders is due out this year.

I'm excited for Raiders but tbh i would prefer Splatoon 4 in 2026 over Raiders in 2026

@Dang_69 Whom are you responding to? The article says nothing of it coming this year nor do I see any comments claiming so.

@vio Maybe longer than between 2 and 3

@MoldyPasta Let them release raiders. It allow for the next story for Splatoon 4 to happen. ^^

@vio they edited it out. If you look in the comments a NL staff member responded to me and they removed it from the article. It originally referred to Raiders and said something like "2026 (that means this year!)".

They said something like they want to leave the reins to third parties this year, haven't they? So it makes sense that they would go mainly for ports for now. And I trust that even if they see things like that they would have at least one big project up their sleeves. I hope they worked out good deals with third parties though.