You Brella Believe It
Nintendo’s super-colorful, super-messy sequelSplatoon 3has now been unleashed upon the public and is already proving itself to be an incredible sales success. In Japan alone, the Switch shooter has already shifted a staggering 3.45 million copies in its firstthree daysof release, breaking previous Switch release records in the country. The news was broken in aweekend press statementby the publisher.
Launching on September 9,Splatoon 3sees the return of madcap, team-based, multiplayer gameplay, as squid kids and octolings battle to out to capture territory across various modes and maps.Splatoon 3features all of the paint-sloshing action that is the franchise’s trademark, set against a slightly more dystopian landscape — the aftermath ofSplatoon 2‘sfinal Splatfestfavoring “Chaos” over “Order.”
But, despite the series’ general popularity, I’m not sure that anybody was expecting the new sequel to be a record-breaker, having already become the fastest-selling Nintendo Switch title in its native Japan. It should also be noted that these figures do not include sales from Europe and North America, which will no doubt add to the incredible number and seeSplatoon 3nestle comfortably in place as one of 2022’s best-selling releases.
Splatoon 3is available now on Nintendo Switch. Check out Chris Carter’s reviewright here.
