Nintendo has revealed in a recent interview with Famitsu that Splatoon 3 continues to be a hit on the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. The team say that since the announcement of Splatoon Raiders the team has seen more people playing Splatoon 3. They even went as far to say that there are actually more people playing Splatoon 3 in 2026 than there were in 2025. Long may it continue. Here’s what was said via machine translation:
Inoue: Also, it’s been about a year since Raiders was announced, and since then, we’ve seen more people playing Splatoon 3.
Really?
Inoue: Yes. There are actually more players in 2026 than there were in 2025, so I think the two titles may be having a positive impact on each other.
Going forward, we want to continue taking on new challenges while preserving the aspects of the series that are important to us.
Raiders is great! Looking forward to seeing what they come up with next
I could tell, it feels like servers fill up much faster. We just need more people in anarchy open mode, it can take a minute to 3 minutes to fill up a server, and that’s my personal favorite mode.
Nice to see Splatoon 3 still pulling numbers. I make short clips of my play sessions for a small channel using qwen image 2.1 for the thumbnails – a cheap way to keep a consistent look.
Would be curious about Splatoon 2 because from my experience online it’s not dead yet either
Splatoon series continues to grow and grow of number of streamers and gamers. The servers fill up quickly.
Splatoon 1 on Wii U was the best
Splatoon 2 was peak
Splatoon 3 the series had bottomed..
Splatoon Raiders gave new life to a series that was becoming stagnant..
Splatoon 4 🤷♂️? I’m personally gonna skip it… I’m annoyed that Raiders will not be getting DLC which I think is a major mistake… but w/e
Don’t think anyone asked, ‘tard.