Pikmin 4

Pikmin 4
Japanese name	TBA
Console	Nintendo Switch
Developer	TBA
Publisher	TBA
Genre	TBA
Players	TBA
Release date
Japan	TBA
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Australia	TBA
South Korea	N/A
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For information on the game revealed on the 2016 Nintendo Direct, see Hey! Pikmin.

"Pikmin 4" is the tentative name for the next main game in the Pikmin series. Not much information is currently known about the project, other than it has been confirmed, and currently, it is "very close to completion". Nothing else is currently officially confirmed, not even the actual name, or the release date.

Known information

Pikmin title possibility and potential

The first mention of a new Pikmin title was on November 6^th, 2014, when Shigeru Miyamoto was being interviewed on the recently-released Pikmin Short Movies, during which he said “Continually launching campaigns after the release of software will lay the groundwork for the next iteration of "Pikmin" in the future. And needless to say, we want it to be one of the motivations for potential consumers to purchase Wii U. We are making a variety of different efforts.”, indicating the possibility of the next Pikmin game on the Wii U.

Smosh Games interview

On January 5^th, 2015, Smosh Games uploaded an interview with Miyamoto, in which he confirmed that Pikmin 4 was being developed.

Eurogamer interview

On September 7^th, 2015, Eurogamer unveiled that, in an exclusive interview held in July of 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto once again confirmed the development of the game, and claimed that it was nearing completion. In the same article, Eurogamer also reveals that some Nintendo representatives also spoke to them, and said the following: “We can confirm that Pikmin 4 is in development but that is all we can confirm at present.”. It is not known if the "Pikmin 4" mentioned in that quote is the actual name for the game that Nintendo used, or if it is the result of the quote's English translation. The validity of the author of that quote is also not known, and it is possible that the name is only a placeholder.

Interestingly, the URL for the Eurogamer interview's page starts with "2014-07-20". Since the URLs of all news article pages on eurogamer.net begin with the article's publication date, this could possibly mean that the article was meant to be revealed shortly after the interview, but was held until September of 2015, presumably when Nintendo authorized the publication.

YOGSCAST interview

In an interview uploaded by YOGSCAST Kim, Takashi Tezuka states that “(...)It's consistently Pikmin, but this year it's definitely the fox, the falcon, the rabbit & the frog”, hinting that the company's greatest focus for 2015 is Star Fox, and so, that Pikmin 4 might release at a later year.

Gamerant interview

On July 7^th, 2016, Gamerant interviewed Miyamoto and asked him about the status of the game's development and why there haven't been any news in the past months. To this, he replies “Yes, you are right, and we’re working on [Pikmin 4]. So, you know, when we’re in development we have to create a list of priorities and it has been hard to kind of fit that into that list, but we’re hopefully starting to see that on the list now.”

76th annual general meeting of shareholders

According to the 76th annual general meeting of shareholders, it is known that the only first-party Wii U title to release in 2017 is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

In light of these news, along with the fact that Nintendo has begun allocating their resources towards their new gaming platform, the Nintendo Switch, which is scheduled for a global release in March 2017, it is now feasible that Pikmin 4's development has been moved from the Wii U to the Switch.

SoHo Apple Store event

During the December 2016 SoHo Apple Store event, Shigeru Miyamoto explained how Pikmin isn't as popular as he thinks it should be, and expressed how we wants to work harder on it, along with Star Fox: “Yeah, I always wanted Fox McCloud to be a bit more popular than he is. But I think one more would be Pikmin. So I think these two, I’ll need to put some more energy into.”

Second Eurogamer interview

With the announcement of Hey! Pikmin for the Nintendo 3DS in September of 2016, it was unclear if the "Pikmin 4" Miyamoto previously mentioned was actually Hey! Pikmin all along, or a different project entirely. However, a second interview with Eurogamer was conducted at the E3 2017 showfloor, during which Miyamoto stated “I've been told not to share anything about this from PR...but I can tell you it is progressing...We can confirm that Pikmin 4 is in development but that is all we can confirm at present.”

See also

• Pikmin series
• Pikmin 3
• Prerelease information