Splatoon was completely absent from the Switch 2 launch. Now we know why. Nintendo decided to hold the Switch 2 upgrade for Splatoon 3 until the week after the new console arrived, announcing it Tuesday morning alongside an entirely new spin-off called Splatoon Raiders.

Splatoon 3's getting a Switch 2 upgrade will result in some big changes in what the original Switch version can render in. order to balance network performance across both platforms.