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Splatoon Esports Tournament Series Launched In Japan - Over $1 million
- Thread starter Exile20
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that would be strange...
I've seen some amazing Japanese players while playing online. People are blaming the lag, but there are some legit players out there.
what, why?
Duh, brain fart. My bad.
the private battle mode is essentially the tournament mode
I'll have to check it out for myself. I haven't played Splatoon in months.
(I generally don't play shooters long-term even when I like them).
$1m over 40 events (and not just for splatoon). CSGO has already had more than $2.8m this year alone, and the year isn't over, with most of that being sourced not by the developer, but by other organisers (i.e. it's not just marketing done by a developer).
Hope they have a couple people dressed as Callie & Marie walking around on top of the trucks for the finals.
pinkurocket
Member
But the problem with those is that it's a demo, every squid is just 'player 1, 'player 2' etc. And they only have access to the basic weapons. To be real comp, you would expect players to use their own loadouts and weapon of choice. That's something I'm wondering if they can pull off.
They better do the splatfest choreo endlessly on repeat.
All weapons but the clothes are set.
I guess they will prepare a special version of the game, with all the weapon unlocked and available. The gear is the same for everybody.
sixteen-bit
Member
How soon til folks can live off that sweet competitive Splatoon cash?
pinkurocket
Member
I'm probably over assuming. But Nintendo never has nor do I think ever will give this type of support to Smash. Even things like patch notes have been given to Splatoon.
I don't think they'll be mad at Splatoon players just frustrated at Nintendo.
If Nintendo and consumer tournaments like Squidboard really push the scene, it can be big.
Revolutionary
Member
Yes, Splatoon is thriving in Japan. One simply needs to play an online match to see that.
The question is whether they'd bring any of this Stateside, where the game is seemingly faltering (hence the new Testfire and "Judd misses you!" emails).
Would be nice to see on something besides NicoNico lol
The question is whether they'd bring any of this Stateside, where the game is seemingly faltering (hence the new Testfire and "Judd misses you!" emails).
Would be nice to see on something besides NicoNico lol
What a ridiculous post lol. It's nowhere near CS
I wouldn't say the game's faltering. It's still steadily selling, just not going crazy like in Japan. I do expect to do well over the Holidays.
MegamanPoweredUP
Member
And the prize will be
yeah pretty much, it's just not the phenomenon that it is in Japan
it still sold ~80k in it's third month on the market which is pretty solid for a Wii U game
people always tend to think that if something isn't in the top 10 that it isn't doing well
Netrunner2k2
Member
And never will be. At least he didn't bring up that OTHER Valve eSports game.
JayWood2010
Member
Yeah CS is huge. 445k people playing it right now, and 530k peak today.
None the less, congrats to Splatoon fans. Hopefully the esports scene will go smoothly for it and bring in a fanbase.
Er, the latest update allows you to essentially do LAN but it's not really. You just need to hook up one of the Wii Us to an internet connection and then connect all the Wii Us to that Wii U (or something to that effect), if I remember correctly. At least, it was explained all you need to do local play with multiple Wii Us is you only need one Wii U connected to the internet.
This way you're only dealing with one internet connection instead of multiple draining from the same internet.
shoryukens
Member
Congrats to all the Splatoon guys in Japan! Hopefully we can get some of that action soon.
Well when Nintendo has a Mario Party tournament they can get mad. Comparing Smash with Splatoon isn't really comparing like with like.
Well...they didn't make either for eSports. It's just that Splatoon is more suited for it and has done A LOT better than expected, especially given that the game was basically made in a little over a year.
Starwolf_UK
Member
You're a squid now, you're a schoolgirl now. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it...
It might be like how Pokemon prize money is paid out. Educational scholarships.
There are a few Japanese twitch streamers who usually end up in all Japanese games (which funilly enough don't have any latency issues due to them all living within a few hundred km of each other and having outstanding connections). Also if most players are Japanese the only latency advantage they get is against non-Japanese players which is to say if you want a latency advantage you should be that laggy roller instead. Whats that you get sniped without the scope on you? Yep latency goes both ways.
MadJackChurchill
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Signing up to the Kyushu one right now!
That's significantly downplaying the movement mechanic in Splatoon. You have to ink turf to move around even if that's not the immediate goal of winning the game. All modes have different strategies associated around with just movement. No one can easily go where there's no ink of their color. Saying only turf war is unique is an extremely myopic view of Splatoon's mechanics.
One benefit of using the ranked modes instead of turf war is that it's far easier to spectate the ranked modes because most of the action is usually concentrated at one area. It's pretty difficult to show how a turf war match is progressing because you'd have to understand what's happening across the whole map.
most smash players refuse to leave Melee, if Nintendo said something about a Smash U tournament I am sure the first responses will be something along the lines of "this sucks, bring melee".
wrong
Omega Kirby
Member
Great news for the game
well thats my opinion based on how much people whine about smash U not being a carbon copy of melee with updated graphics
smash 4 playerbase is just as big as melee's, if not bigger
OmegaSmash
Member
Smash continues to struggle. Still, this is really good for Splatoon.