Splatoon 3 Needs to Be Better About Ongoing Content Than Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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Nintendo may not have announced a release date for Splatoon 3, but thanks to a confirmed summer 2022 window, fans at least know the wait will be over soon. Splatoon 3 clearly has strong roots in Splatoon 2, since it borrows and expands on major content like Salmon Run, but it still promises to supply a lot of original content including creative new weapons and a story mode with a mammal-centric twist. Odds are also good that Splatoon 3 will get many new features after launch considering Nintendo's history of supporting Splatoon games with in-game events and DLC.

It could take some time before Nintendo reveals Splatoon 3's long-term additional content, but whatever form it takes, hopefully it's robust. Splatoon 3 looks like a step forward for the franchise, and it deserves multiple years of strong events and expansions from Nintendo rather than a brief period of support. That's a lesson worth learning from Animal Crossing: New Horizons' surprisingly short run. Rather than stopping work on Splatoon 3 within two years of its release, Nintendo ought to devote resources toward expanding and improving Splatoon 3 for many years.

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As of this writing, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the second best-selling game on the Switch, and it'll likely hold onto that throne for some time. That's why it's strange to think Nintendo supported the game for such a relatively short time. All told, New Horizons only got about a year-and-a-half of additional content before the 2.0 Update arrived as its last major expansion. That's a stark contrast to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's many years of DLC fighters and even Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, which released in 2017 and still gets