Splatoon 2 uses about 150MB of mobile data per hour while tethering

Nintendo is testing out its upcoming online shooter Splatoon 2, and it turns out that the game is a lot more of the same except it’s on the Switch. But that means you can play the game anywhere you have an Internet connection, which is an exciting possibility for anyone with a smartphone that can turn into a Wi-Fi hotspot.

For one of Nintendo’s hour-long Splatoon 2 Global Testfire events today, I turned my Samsung Galaxy phone (may it never explode) into a hotspot and connected my Switch. I immediately logged onto Splatoon for 60 solid minutes of ink splatting and squid killing, and after that session, I checked and found that my smartphone’s hotspot app had used 153MB of data in the hour I was playing. The Switch was the only device connected to the network, and I was connected to Splatoon for that entire time.