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[splatoon4when]

Day 100!!!

Splatoon 4 wasn't announced today!

Holy moly, its been that long since I started this blog? Thanks to everyone for sticking with me through the past 100 days since Grandfest has ended. Can't wait for day 200! Also happy holidays to everyone, hope you enjoy winter break :D

[trashgoblincreature]

I did think it was pretty weird that they brought up that the memverse was made from Tartar’s data and then proceeded to do… nothing with that. I really like your idea!

EXACTLY. they hint at it having a big part in things and just?? leave it alone????

like. does smollusk KNOW tartar? or maybe order learned its methods from tartar?? nope. never confirmed. they just mention that his data was used and go back to pretending it simply didn't exist

i need to work on that fic more instead of continuing to rant about this but ack. i could talk about this for hours tbh-

[bandanad33]

Splatoon oc headshots!!! Mainly drew this so they could match pfps on ToyHouse..

[candycoatedrox]

been thinking a bit about possible future wakai child again but unsure what to do, bc they could have a biological child the normal way, and i feel like they would want to. but i also feel like aukai would hate being pregnant.

except i just remembered that they're cephalopods and cephalopods have eggs. i fucking win y'all. peace and love on planet earth wakai child is so real

[nephilimbrute]

how come u give pearlie facial hair in some drawings? (no hate, i really like it!)

in some drawings he's just Older. i think when he hits ~30 he starts growing facial hair. which probably means he'll have facial hair by the time splat4 happens

[thisiselectric]

What if we're picking Lil Judd's motivation for being evil.

For anyone out of the loop, it's genuinely no secret that he is the one that has taken over Grizzco after Mr Grizz bit the dust, and that he's probably going to be Splat4's villain. He's gotten fuzzier in 3 (which has a plot about making everyone fuzzy), he represents the "bad guys" when judging turf and anarchy matches, his deck in tableturf consists of salmonid cards (including the Mr. Grizz card), he has concept art with a Grizzco eyepatch on, etc etc.

[emzzy]

Congratulations team Past! I literally never encountered any of you for this entire Splatfest, but I guess you guys were just busy juggling team Present like a hacky sack.

To all my fellow team Future members, we did our best, and it was an honour to fight by your side!

I'll see you all again in when we get drafted for the great turf war in splat4!

[thyrus]

ok erm nintendy 2 predictions (may or may not be in the direct, just my general thoughts? i guess)

games/features:

mario kart launch title

n64 zelda remake for summer

new mario title for holiday

^3d mario

enhanced versions of ACNH, splat3, mario wonder, BOTW/TOTK, pikmin, metroid. these could take advantage of joycon mouse. ubi teased mario rabbids on switch 2 or something so maybe that gets an upgrade of some kind

weird new IP to demo the new hardware features

animal crossing announced before 2027, maybe aimed around that point but could always be delayed into 2027

splat4 announced 2026, release in 2027 i think (too early for splat4)

i think a splatoon spinoff is likely this gen but idk when. this year might be a good time as filler but i think they'd rather save resources to develop splat4

less focus on mobile and more on console. i feel like the mobile games were kinda cushion during the 3ds/wiiu era and after the success of the switch and the development of the switch 2 they feel like its not necessary (have all mobile games discontinued? not including like. pokemon ((which should always count as a separate thing)) and pikmin?). i thought i saw an article about them not abandoning mobile but idk if it was with apps or games or what. apps are definitely here to stay though i think

roblox will come at some point. it's gotta

another weird "99" type game or something of an old IP

in the direct: 3rd party anime and ~cozy farm games~

xbox games come to switch (idk anything about xbox. halo? this was rumoured)

bingo space: C button is for voice chat (microphone sold separately) (idr did anyone find a microphone on it?) (wii speak...2!)

price of games go up $10-20

monetization:

nintendo dabbles in microtransactions for the first time this generation. remember in the mid-2010s everyone was like "nintendo is the good company they dont release halfassed games" and then so many games were halfassed on the switch LMAO. also they really focused on DLC this time around and ""free updates""

microtransactions/more paid DLC for animal crossing, NOT tied to amiibo, maybe they'll try to milk it and make it run longer. expansions for towns/islands/cities (whatever they settle on), furniture sets, villagers.

microtransactions/more paid DLC for splatoon 4, not tied to amiibo. single player obviously, but also cosmetics and maybe weapon skins (THERES your "third kits")

free-to-play games with microtransactions?

honest attempts at live service games for AC and splatoon. i feel like its stupid how little content they put out for these major games when they could very easily get way more money out of it. if not "indefinite" service then way more than just two years (lbr "two years" was barely anything for these games. they released bare bones games and then added like one major thing towards the end of the lifespan after two years and thats it. they ended before they got good, or they started to get good and then it died because no one gave a shit anymore because they don't know how to keep people interested)

themes, but not to the extent of the 3ds (nothing quirky)

the playtest game, if they're gonna make it a full experience,

wishlist/wildcard:

nintendogs. idk if i necessarily want to play it but its more about a nostalgic IP coming back lol. and it would look good

quirky comes back (personality with menus, miis, something like streetpass, badge arcade, cutesy themes, SOMETHING)

gamecube VC

make wii and ds work somehow

i want the rayman 3 remaster pleeease :) dont think it'll be in the direct though im not expecting it

wildcard: mario paint as a cheap eshop title

oooooooooooooh bring back art academy maybe

more first party smaller titles for eshop? (like how pokemon does with their free to play games. like release a simple dr. mario without charging $60 for it)

[splatoon4when]

Day 108

Splatoon 4 wasn't announced today!

[marigi]

When's Nintendo gonna learn to just drop Big Man from Seasonal Fests? Considering this is all we're gonna get until Splat4 we really gotta get rid of that dude.

And stop using white ink god you people are unfunny.

[cnmcn]

Nintendo if you release a new switch and make Splat4 an exclusive on it and get in my way like that when Splat the First came out and I couldn't get a WiiU I'm gonna hate you with ever atom in my body.

Don't ruin this for me, Salaryboy.

[bandanad33]

Recent redraw I did for a pfp bc the old one for him was. certainly. a choice !!

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Background tile was made by mima on TH :)

[realuity]

hello! i'm a member of SplatoonIRL community and... i kind of have my own vision on splatoon and stuff... i sent a letter to Nogami with my ideas for splat4 and blah-blah-blah. (i hope, ydm if i won't say about them, i'd take a millenium now when i'm sleepy). may I make some posts in SplatoonIRL as OG characters? e.g. Pearl and Marie who're political writers there? might be some my vision on splatoon lore, Historical Splatoon project, a little bit of syndicalist and socialist propaganda, but in character. do you think it might be appropriate for the community? I mean, technically it'd be so, but ik politics are being a bit baddy these days. so, what do you say?

yeah go ahead dw!! they seem to be non-taken as far as I can tell, and frankly some political matters are pretty important to splatoon lord (ink/octo relations, the dumpster fire that is salmonids relation and potentially even rights to wider inkadian society, splatlands economical issues) so it might be a neat direction. keeping it relatively lighthearted would be a good bet, but it never hurts to have some serious spice thrown in… just don’t expect everyone’s ocs to be receptive towards any proppygander. inkadians are a rebellious and cheery sort.

[skiplo-wave]

Idolfest sounds terrible because deep cut would not only lose but they beef with everyone.

You are correct

Whatever finalfest theme is, it has to be fair across the board. All themes should be good enough that can work to carry Splat4 game ( if we even get that) also forces deep cut to get more focus instead of naturally

Folks are saying past present and future could be a theme which ehhh chaos and order kinda already plays into those themes.

When ever finalfest is I hope it’s hyped up. Everyone gets costumes to rep their desired theme, hear all previous idols songs. The whole bang

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