It has been fairly a giant 12 months for Splatoon, and the participant numbers for the newest mainline entry apparently present it, although it has been in the marketplace for 4 years now.
That is in keeping with Splatoon 3 director Seita Inoue, who, in a brand new interview with Famitsu (translated by Nintendo All the pieces), stated that issues have been on the up and up for the sport in 2026.
When discussing how happy he’s with Raiders’ success to this point, Inoue revealed that “there are extra individuals enjoying [Splatoon 3] in 2026 than there have been in 2025, so we expect they’ve had a optimistic impact on one another.”
The director did not give any indication of whether or not these are returning gamers or newbies, although he famous that Raiders “could be loved even by gamers first making an attempt out the sequence,” so there’s each probability that some people had their first whiff of Splatoon with Raiders, then went again to the newest mainline entry for extra.
Exterior of Raiders, Splatoon 3 additionally obtained a Change 2 replace final 12 months, boosting the sport’s efficiency and including a bunch of latest weapons and phases, earlier than the ver. 11.0.0 replace added much more options (together with well being bars) again in January.
Briefly, regardless of being out for 4 years (while you’d assume participant numbers could be dropping by now), Nintendo’s continued help and spin-off launch have confirmed to be reasonably variety to Splatoon 3. A fourth mainline entry is sort of actually on the best way, however we will not see there being any rush to get it out in the interim.