Following years of half-baked announcements, Nintendo has finally confirmed that Pikmin 4 is in fact real and officially coming in 2023.
Announced during September’s Nintendo Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto took to the stage to announce the new game that will arrive an entire decade after the release of Pikmin 3 on the Wii U.
Very little of Pikmin 4 was shown, however. Only a handful of scenes were shown before the Pikmin logo appeared on screen and a group of the little beasties ran in to form the four. A lovely green garden was on show otherwise, with the series’ iconic Grub-dog enemy appearing in one of the scenes.
It’s been a very long, very quiet road for Pikmin 4. As far back as 2015, Shigeru Miyamoto said the game was “very close to completion”. By 2016 it had fallen down the list of priorities, and in 2017 it was still progressing – but we hadn’t heard anything else about the game until today.
In our 9/10 review of the Switch version of the previous game, IGN said: “Pikmin 3 Deluxe makes an already excellent game even better with some small but enjoyable content additions and a boatload of quality of life improvements.”
See our full list of Nintendo Direct announcements for more news about upcoming Switch games.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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