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title: "SplatNet 2 Service ended message … Splatoon 3?"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/splatnet-2-service-ended-message-splatoon-3/"
description: "You remember SplatNet 2, a service included in the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app that is connected with Splatoon 2 right?"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-01-08 12:28:59"
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SplatNet 2 Service ended message ... Splatoon 3? | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![SplatNet 2 Service ended message … Splatoon 3?](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/splatnet-2-service-ended-message-...-splatoon-3.jpg "SplatNet 2 Service ended message … Splatoon 3?")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/splatnet-2-service-ended-message-...-splatoon-3.jpg)You remember SplatNet 2, a service included in the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app that is connected with Splatoon 2 right?

Well in Splatoon 2’s latest version 5.1.0 update (more about that later), dataminers have found a string called “CommonMsg\_JPja.release/CuiMsgWin.msbt
追加テキスト(Msg\_EndCalico)”.

The string contains a message that roughly translates to; “Internet service ‘SplatNet 2’ has ended.”

> 実際にサービスが終わるとこうなる [pic.twitter.com/vJx0vYwZL3](https://t.co/vJx0vYwZL3)
>
> — 紅しょうが (@asasasa98765) [January 6, 2020](https://twitter.com/asasasa98765/status/1214059699013730305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## [](#the-end-of-splatnet2)The End of Splatnet2?

The existence of this very string has led many Splatoon fans to speculate that Splatoon 3 is coming. As SplatNet 2 is a crucial online service for Splatoon 2, it wouldn’t make sense to add a “service ended” message to the game this early if it had a long life ahead.

Or was this added ahead of time, so we will have to wait and see what happens.

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