17 June 2008
Ferry

Pikmin 3 very well suited for the Wii, according to Shigeru Miyamoto

Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has hinted at a Pikmin 3 sequel several times during interviews. To quote him in a 2007 interview: “I certainly don’t think we’ve seen the last of Pikmin. I definitely would like to do something with them, and I think the Wii interface in particular is very well suited to that franchise.”

Then following last year’s IGN interview with Mr. Miyamoto — on April 18th, 2008, these further confirming words were published in a Cnet article: “For now, Miyamoto looks ahead to other projects for the Wii, mentioning his desire to continue the Pikmin series.”

Keep in mind there are no Nintendo titles announced yet for the second half of 2008 and beyond. Add to this that yesterday Marc Franklin, director of public relations at Nintendo, told Gamepro that Nintendo “will be announcing several new titles that core gamers will be interested in around the time of E3.” — Since it’s been all but revealed that Pikmin 3 is in development for Wii, expect the real-time strategy title to be unveiled by Nintendo at the E3 Summit 2008 on July 15-17th.

Update E3 2008: Pikmin 3 was officially confirmed as in development for the Wii by Shigeru Miyamoto during a roundtable discussion after the Nintendo Pre-E3 Press Conference at E3 2008. Where he also revealed that new Mario and Zelda games are in development for Wii and that the teams are actively working on new projects.

However no new information, screenshots, or a release date was given for the new Pikmin 3 game. But hey, at least we know it’s definitely coming!

Update E3 2009: When Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about where Pikmin 3 wasn’t shown at Nintendo’s E3 2009 conference, he replied:

“I’m sorry. Unfortunately we haven’t been able to expand the team size very much, because we’ve been working on so many different games that we’ve shown off at the show. So the team is working very hard, but it’s a bit of a small team. The work that they’ve been doing is quite nice. My basic idea is that the sense of the depth of the game and the simplicity of the control will all be there.“

17 June 2008 20:55
Efren

FIRST COMMENT! !! ! ! !!

18 June 2008 00:55
Reeteshinator

I would absolutely love it if a Pikmin for Wii would come out!

18 June 2008 09:48
Ultima

Same here, Reeteshinator. Plus, think of it like this. Obscure, hardly-known Fire Emblem characters were put in Melee. Then, they made more Fire Emblems. Now, not-so-obscure, well-known Pikmin characters get into Brawl. Do we see more Pikmin in the Wii’s future?

18 June 2008 18:47
astrotriforce

Well the one big hole in your hypothesis Ultima is that they stuck Ness from the relatively obscure but huge cult-hit classic EarthBound into the original Super Smash Bros., and followed it up with his appearance in Melee. Yet they still never re-released EarthBound or Mother I or even Mother 3, despite the fact that they had several chances to do it, particularly when Nintendo released Mother I&II for GBA in Japan.

THEN they have the gall to stick TWO EarthBound characters, Ness and Lucas, in Brawl.

Now I do believe Nintendo will FINALLY release EarthBound on the Wii VC soon. But it’s sad that just cause they did it with Fire Emblem, does not guarantee they’ll do it with anything else. As we all know, Nintendo goes to the beat of their own drum, and it doesn’t really matter what their fans think.

But Pikmin I believe they will do Pikmin 3 cause it simply makes every bit of sense given the use of the Wii Remote & Nunchuck, and because it’s a big Nintendo title they haven’t done yet. And God knows they need some big core titles cause they’ve almost done everything else.

Anyhoo, i can’t wait for Pikmin 3! I loved the first one and still want to track down the second one that I never played. But I love the series so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing more on this one.

25 March 2009 16:15
peachowns!!

Good to see that those at nintendo did not forget the pikmin series and are in construction for this third posterity. One and two were both fun and very well constructed games. And its been a long time since the last release of pikmin two in 2004. So, very excited to get my hands on this game and see the new availablitys that the wii will have to offer for it.