{"id":86309,"date":"2026-07-21T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86309"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:44:46","slug":"nintendo-basically-says-that-splatoon-4-will-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86309","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Basically Says That Splatoon 4 Will Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Splatoon Raiders looks like a pivot from Nintendo’s competitive multiplayer-focused franchise, a producer on the series confirmed that PvP gameplay in Splatoon will endure, even uttering the phrase “Splatoon 4” in an interview.<\/p>\n

Nintendo’s Ask the Developer feature<\/a> (per Nintendo Life<\/a>) included a question that straight-up asked producer Seita Inoue why a spin-off is the franchise’s next entry<\/a> instead of a proper Splatoon 4. Inoue clarified that though Raiders is a markedly different game, Nintendo will “continue to develop competitive gameplay going forward.”<\/p>\n

In short, the reasons for creating Raiders “as a spin-off and not as ‘Splatoon 4′” came from Nintendo’s desire to create “something with a slightly different approach to gameplay” and “a new entry point into the series,” according to Inoue.<\/p>\n

Citing the PvE Salmon Run mode from Splatoon 2 and 3 and the single-player story modes in all three mainline games, Inoue emphasized that the series “isn\u2019t just about competitive play.”<\/p>\n

In Inoue’s words, Nintendo has been “going full speed ahead for over 11 years since the series\u2019 launch, developing and updating three titles along the way.” Splatoon 3 was a sales hit<\/a> when it launched in 2022, so making a fourth, traditional Splatoon game as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Splatoon Raiders looks like a pivot from Nintendo’s competitive multiplayer-focused franchise, a producer on the series confirmed that PvP gameplay in Splatoon will endure, even uttering the phrase “Splatoon 4” in an interview. Nintendo’s Ask the Developer feature (per Nintendo Life) included a question that straight-up asked producer Seita Inoue why a spin-off is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":86311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86312,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86309\/revisions\/86312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}