Playing with Friends!

[TheSpeedyMouse]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintend...lack/6327118.p?id=1219661390641&skuId=6327118

On Best Buy's page for the Splatoon Wii U bundle at one point it says:

Take the battle online
Team up with three friends in action-packed four-on-four matches (Broadband Internet access required for online play. Additional accessories required for multi-player mode; sold separately).

This could mean one of three things:

1. There is split-screen online in this game, which is really unlikely. However mentioning additional accessories could be a hint to this, or it could mean you have to buy multiple consoles for multi-player.

2. You can form teams with friends to battle strangers online! Weirdly it doesn't say "up to three friends" but I'm sure playing with one or two friends is possible if this is what it means. However if it did say that then that would confirm that you can't play with more than three friends, which speaking of that I wonder if that is the case.

3. This is a mistake.

What do you guys think?

 

[Nester]

It's been confirmed that you can join friends online if you have each others NNID's added. There will not be split screen online functionality like there is in Mario Kart 8 for two people on the same Wii U playing online together against others.

 

[jp4464]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintend...lack/6327118.p?id=1219661390641&skuId=6327118

On Best Buy's page for the Splatoon Wii U bundle at one point it says:

Take the battle online
Team up with three friends in action-packed four-on-four matches (Broadband Internet access required for online play. Additional accessories required for multi-player mode; sold separately).

This could mean one of three things:

1. There is split-screen online in this game, which is really unlikely. However mentioning additional accessories could be a hint to this, or it could mean you have to buy multiple consoles for multi-player.

2. You can form teams with friends to battle strangers online! Weirdly it doesn't say "up to three friends" but I'm sure playing with one or two friends is possible if this is what it means. However if it did say that then that would confirm that you can't play with more than three friends, which speaking of that I wonder if that is the case.

3. This is a mistake.

What do you guys think?

I'll be extremely surprised if there was a lack of friend support for this game.

It's been confirmed in an interview with one of the Treehouse members that there will be some kind of party/friend system for players to team up online. We just don't know any specifics right now.

 

[TheSpeedyMouse]

Oh I've seen that interview; I'm subscribed to ProJared. I was hoping that there was also two players per Wii U like in MK8 but the fact that it says 3 players should of made me get rid of that hope. Oh well. It doesn't matter too much. :)

 

[AEM]

During Nintendo's last live E3 presentation Reggie confirmed that two gamepads could connect to one Wii U system, but that has gone unused since the system's launch. Splatoon would be an ideal game for that to work with, but I'm skeptical if Nintendo actually kept that feature a possibility since Gamepads are not sold separately.

 

[Eleventh Hour Superpower]

You can't customize match settings like in Smash though.

 

[Lyn]

I'm hoping split screen. If not, i'll just take online w/ friends. If it's only that, though.. i'll be very disappointed.

 

[suavevillain]

I really hope we get details on how joining friends works. It is very important a party system is ideal.