New Splatoon tournament and the prize is Nintendo’s unannounced NX console

Despite Nintendo confirming there’s a new console codenamed NX on the road, we haven’t seen anything yet for the device and it was only rumors so far. It’s a little strange that a new Splatoon tournament has been announced with a prize including Nintendo NX consoles.

Nintendo has teamed up with eSports organization, ESL, to give away a Nintendo NX as the grand prize for an upcoming six-month long Splatoon tournament. The tournament is called ‘Go4Splatoon’ and it will consist of a six-month long season of matches, which will end with a grand final during March next year. As Eurogamer points out, the season kicks off this Sunday.

Given that the grand finals are scheduled in for March next year, we can assume that the tournament winner won’t necessarily be getting an NX before everyone else, given that most current predictions point to the console releasing that month.

While Nintendo hasn’t officially revealed the NX just yet, there have been plenty of patent leaks recently, painting a pretty solid picture of what the console will be. From what we know so far, the NX should run game cartridges rather than discs and be capable of running as both a handheld and a console thanks to the screen and detachable controllers.