[aeolist]

This has got to be a launch title, right?

Goddamn it making me get a Wii U. At least it'll have HDMI this time.

[Luigison]

I'm rearry enjoying waiting on Pikmin 3.

[AniHawk]

Man, I played Pikmin 1 when it released and didn't really care for it at all. The sequel was a big improvement, then? The game seemed like it had potential, but it just wasn't much fun for me. I'll probably get this if it's a launch title anyway, just to give it a go again

after a half-generation of laziness and rushed products, i think it signaled ead's return to greatness.

it's not the arcadey thing that pikmin 1 was, so if you thought that was too boring, you might not like pikmin 2. pikmin 2 plays a little more to the strategy side of things.

[VerTiGo]

This is making it sound like a launch title... Miyamoto has never clearly admitted the game's actual existence until now. Saying he's happy probably means there's finally something that worked for him and that the game is so ready. We don't know of any other official Wii U titles from Nintendo other than Pikmin 3.

[Bullza2o]

This has got to be a launch title, right? Goddamn it making me get a Wii U. At least it'll have HDMI this time.

I need it to have an optical audio output as well.

[filler]

Game of the forever ever.

[goomba]

I need it to have an optical audio output as well.

Why? HDMI outputs digital audio as well as video.

[IceDoesntHelp]

I need it to have an optical audio output as well.

Technically you don't need it, you want it (;

[Ra1den]

Those dungeons in Pikmin 2 dragged on forever. I'd love to see it more like Pikmin 1. But they would have a hard time making it seem like an improved sequel if they go for that more simplistic approach. That ever-present time-limit and well-defined goals in Pikmin 1 really made the game fun.

[Luigison]

I need it to have an optical audio output as well.

I need to update my receiver because it doesn't have HDMI input. I considering the Sony HTSS380 3D Home Theater System since it'll be easy for my wife and daughter use, it will work with all my systems, and is relatively cheap.

[Bullza2o]

Why? HDMI outputs digital audio as well as video.

Technically you don't need it, you want it (;

I need to update my receiver because it doesn't have HDMI input. I considering the Sony HTSS380 3D Home Theater System since it'll be easy for my wife and daughter use, it will work with all my systems, and is relatively cheap.

Yeah like Luigison, my home theater system doesn't have HDMI input, so connecting optical cable into the TV would spit 2ch instead of 5.1. I learned this recently and had to buy an optical audio adapter for my Xbox 360.

[LOCK]

Why does this get me so hyped. Imagination is escalating.

[Emitan]

Wii's are region locked.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

[El Sloth]

Calling it right now: Will be announced as a launch title, but won't actually end up being one.

[DeaconKnowledge]

Pikmin 1 > Pikmin 2.

There was virtually zero consequence in Pikmin 2.

[TheCongressman1]

That ever-present time-limit and well-defined goals in Pikmin 1 really made the game fun.

Whoa. That's exactly what I don't want. Pikmin two was much more fun without a time limit.

[Dreamwriter]

Maybe I dreamed it, but didn't this guy say he was retiring like a month ago?

What he said was he was retiring from managing huge projects like Zelda. He instead wanted to get back to working on small games that Nintendo doesn't treat like a big deal - games like Pikmin.

[Pseudo_Sam]

Pikmin 1 > Pikmin 2. There was virtually zero consequence in Pikmin 2.

What does that even mean?

Pikmin 2 improved upon the original in every conceivable way.

[DeaconKnowledge]

What does that even mean? Pikmin 2 improved upon the original in every conceivable way.

It means that removing the time limit was to the series' detriment.

Pikmin 2 turned to "dicking around in your backyard until sunset."

[Rez]

Pikmin 3 GOTY system-seller somebody hold me down

[filler]

Wii U garden demo was made using an early version of the Pikmin 3 engine.

[Rodney McKay]

It means that removing the time limit was to the series' detriment. Pikmin 2 turned to "dicking around in your backyard until sunset."

Buy one of these to keep track of how many days pass in your game.

If you haven't won after X amount of days, erase your save and start over.

[DeaconKnowledge]

Buy one of these to keep track of how many days pass in your game. If you haven't won after X amount of days, erase your save and start over.

Or play Pikmin 1.

[BD1]

Man, I was never a HUGE Pikmin fan, but idea of beautiful HD environments with hundreds claymation style Pikmin running around is awesome.

It would be cool if they utilized the microphone in the controller and incorporated some voice commands into the game.

[Medalion]

This is sorta dissapointing to hear Miyamoto, we wanted to hear you say you're glad that you've FINISHED making Pikmin 3 for the Wii-U so we can see it soon at E3 and projected for launch

[AceBandage]

This is sorta dissapointing to hear Miyamoto, we wanted to hear you say you're glad that you've FINISHED making Pikmin 3 for the Wii-U so we can see it soon at E3 and projected for launch

Why would he be finished like 8 months prior to release?

[Medalion]

Suprize... early launch :P

[Moaradin]

I'd buy a Wii U just for Pikmin 3. Please be here on release...

[Emitan]

Or play Pikmin 1.

but then youre missing all of pikmin 2's new stuff

[Junie12]

If pikmin 3 comes out at launch, I may have to break my streak of never buying consoles at launch. Pikmin is just too good.

[Soka]

To be fair, i dont like pikmin. And i also dont like the Metroid Prime series. I dont think Retro is God like gaf thinks. 4 years at gaf and i finally got to say it. Feels good.

I know this is from page one but I have to quote this.

Sir, there are not enough mean words in the dictionary to describe you.

[abstract alien]

If pikmin 3 comes out at launch, I may have to break my streak of never buying consoles at launch. Pikmin is just too good.

Don't worry, the moment a screen shot from a cellphone camera is taken of it, the game will be picked to pieces. Pixel this, texture that...gaf WILL break you.

[MrSerrels]

It means that removing the time limit was to the series' detriment. Pikmin 2 turned to "dicking around in your backyard until sunset."

I agree. This. So much this.

No time limit completely ruined the urgency and need to plan. That's what made the first game so great.

[abstract alien]

I agree. This. So much this. No time limit completely ruined the urgency and need to plan. That's what made the first game so great.

Yep, I'm in the same boat as well. I loved pikmin 2, but I do not love it more than the first. I know it's supposed to be a different beast, and I enjoy it for what it is.

[SuperDowns]

Vaporware

....

*sobs*

I want to be wrong!

[EatinOlives]

Hold your horses. Miyamoto doesn't think high-quality HD graphics is a waste of time, money, resources, effort, nor does he think it's for "children" like Nintendo fans love to parrot? Huh.

This E3'll be amusing to watch from a distance. The convenient change in taste that Nintendo fans will undergo the minute E3 starts will be so sudden that I'm gonna get whiplash.

I really, really hope this Pikmin game uses the art style in the original Pikmin concept art. As in, claymation Pikmin on a photorealistic environment.

[The Lamp]

I like how he implies that he didn't enjoy making it until he got to make it for WiiU.

[AceBandage]

Hold your horses. Miyamoto doesn't think high-quality HD graphics is a waste of time, money, resources, effort, nor does he think it's for "children" like Nintendo fans love to parrot? Huh. This E3'll be amusing to watch from a distance. The convenient change in taste that Nintendo fans will undergo the minute E3 starts will be so sudden that I'm gonna get whiplash. I really, really hope this Pikmin game uses the art style in the original Pikmin concept art. As in, claymation Pikmin on a photorealistic environment.

Oh you're gonna last long.

[Shining Sunshine]

Valve is really working on Half-Life 3.

[apana]

Hold your horses. Miyamoto doesn't think high-quality HD graphics is a waste of time, money, resources, effort, nor does he think it's for "children" like Nintendo fans love to parrot? Huh. This E3'll be amusing to watch from a distance. The convenient change in taste that Nintendo fans will undergo the minute E3 starts will be so sudden that I'm gonna get whiplash. I really, really hope this Pikmin game uses the art style in the original Pikmin concept art. As in, claymation Pikmin on a photorealistic environment.

You sound a little bitter. Besides it's not like most fans said Nintendo games wouldn't be awesome in HD, they were just saying that what was on the Wii was not so bad. Games like Mario Galaxy, DKCR, Skyward Sword etc. don't look ugly. Personally I'm glad Nintendo went the direction they did with the Wii I really enjoyed it, just disappointed they didn't improve upon their ideas.

[BY2K]

Oh you're gonna last long.

E3 is gonna eat him whole.

[StreetsAhead]

I like how he implies that he didn't enjoy making it until he got to make it for WiiU.

Four plus years on a tiny team, with slow progress while probably banging against tech boundaries was probably not fun.

I hope being able to work with 10+X the power of the Wii really allows his and the team's creativity to go to town and re-sparks ambition in what they're able to accomplish.

[EatinOlives]

E3 is gonna eat him whole.

Don't worry, I'll restrain myself from posting on the Nintendo E3 topics. It's gonna be a minefield.

You sound a little bitter. Besides it's not like most fans said Nintendo games wouldn't be awesome in HD, they were just saying that what was on the Wii was not so bad. Games like Mario Galaxy, DKCR, Skyward Sword etc. don't look ugly. Personally I'm glad Nintendo went the direction they did with the Wii I really enjoyed it, just disappointed they didn't improve upon their ideas.

Why yes, I am a little bitter. Circa 2008 I got real sick and tired of diehard Nintendo fans adopting a contrarian hipster attitude surrounding HD-level graphics, blasting away at people who valued and appreciated those graphics and calling them "graphics whores". Hell, the past couple of weeks I've seen a couple of posters calling people who value high-end graphics as "children". I found it funny when the Zelda E3 tech demo from last year was making its rounds around internet forums, and the same Ninty fanboys who were blasting Xbox/PS3 fans for being "graphics whores" were behaving in exactly the same way without even realizing it.

Their tastes changed drastically the minute the Wii was released after Nintendo stopped going after tech with the GameCube. Now they'll drastically change again that Nintendo's getting a little back in on the action, insisting their attitude didn't change at all this whole time. Timing is a little too perfect if you ask me.

[civilstrife]

This could be a very beautiful game. Here's hoping they totally revamped the engine when they moved it to WiiU.

[gamergirly]

Pikmin 3 is seriously overdue. I almost feel like it's time for Pikmin 4 LOL

[BY2K]

Stuff.

Your generalizing a little. (A lot.)

Nintendo holds a pretty big spot as my favourite out of them, Sony and Microsoft, but after E3 2008, I got sick of it and I finally got a 360, and later a PS3. (Had a PC too before that.) I also got a PSP and I plan on getting a Vita down the line once it gets more games that interest me. (And see if the price won't go down a little like the 3DS, seeing how bad it's selling in Japan.)

Now I play everything and Nintendo didn't fully get me back until E3 2010. I appreciate HD as much as anybody. I appreciated the Wii still, but I was disappointed that it wasn't HD like a lot of people. So yes, I'm happy as hell that Nintendo finally makes the jump and gets a little more horse power at the same time.

[seady]

OMG best launch title eeeeevar.

[Jason's Ultimatum]

after a half-generation of laziness and rushed products, i think it signaled ead's return to greatness. it's not the arcadey thing that pikmin 1 was, so if you thought that was too boring, you might not like pikmin 2. pikmin 2 plays a little more to the strategy side of things.

As I've said aleady, I gave up on Pikmin 2 after not being able to collect all of the pieces in the fire level with those giant walking heads. The water area in the fire level was difficult, too.

But I still loved the game, even if I didn't complete it.

[Thores]

I really, really hope this Pikmin game uses the art style in the original Pikmin concept art. As in, claymation Pikmin on a photorealistic environment.

You did this on purpose to raise my expectations so I'd be disappointed, didn't you

[El Sloth]

I really, really hope this Pikmin game uses the art style in the original Pikmin concept art. As in, claymation Pikmin on a photorealistic environment.

This would be god damn amazing. I'm not even sure how that would work or even if it would, but it sounds amazing. Also potentially horribly expensive?