Could Splatoon be going free-to-play?

With the sun setting on Splatoon 2, could the franchise’s future be free-to-play?

[Servbot41]

There are so many new players daily, it's pretty short-sighted to just end the splatfest without even an announcement of Splatoon 3 much less a release date.

[addictedtochaos]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Splatoon ends up being a once a console generation type of game like Smash and Mario Kart.

[Sirk7x]

It depends on how long Nintendo plans on supporting the Switch. As long as people are buying it, and software, they'll keep going. I believe it could end up being their longest supported hardware, outside of the Gameboy. Especially if Switch ends up hitting 80 million sold, that's a huge install base for a Splatoon 3, or any other first party title.

[Zeref]

That would suck because i never got to experience splatfest

[addictedtochaos]

Splatoon 2 isn’t going anywhere. The Splatfests are ending but the multiplayer will remain. To say the sun is setting on the game is just flat out wrong.

[King_Noctis]

There isn’t even a single microtransaction in the game. So I don’t even know how it will work as F2P. I also don’t even want the game to be F2P, as there aren’t any reason to do so.

[Deathpreacher]

yes to this, need to stop playing fortnite.

[Magog]

Only if they bring it to ios and android.

[PCgamer98]

Free to play then also release it on pc/phones like fortnite would be a smart move from them.