The longer they wait to do a Metroid, the more expensive it's going to be to make, and the harder it will be to sell.
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Miyamoto: Pikmin 4 in development, "very close to completion"
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The longer they wait to do a Metroid, the more expensive it's going to be to make, and the harder it will be to sell.
DoctorFling
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Thanks for hyping it up Nintendo, I'm sure that's a great sales strategy.
Starting with the fourth entry on a entirely different plattform seems off, especially when the game on the plattform will be under high sale number expectations by shareholders.
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It's a Pikmin game. Expectations wouldn't be that high.
They hyped the last one and look what good that did.
Kikorin
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Yeah! 3 was my favourite of the series, please add nights levels on 4, would be perfect have the night playable and if you don't go in time at youe base, you can stay outside but have to be more careful and move stealth from a lot of monsters, but maybe put some high rewards possible to take only on night time :0_
Well, I mean, not like there's an abundance of announced Wii U games left to choose from really. People who bought 3 will most likely be interested in 4 as well.
Not that this announcement isn't absolutely crazy and totally Nintendo of course. It is absolutely crazy.
higgsboson1997
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WHAT? Where did this drop from!?
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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Wait what? Not that its not awesome, but kinda out of the blue.
Which is why it's not coming out on the Wii U!
I do realistically see one on NX, but they do need to play their cards a hell of a lot better this time around.
Omega Kirby
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Out of nowhere
NipplesAndToes23
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I have yet to play a Pikmin game yet. I need to correct that one of these days.
zenosparadox
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Fantastic news! Pikmin 3 was sogood.gif
balladofwindfishes
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No way.
It's probably a game that mostly recycles Pikmin 3 assets and the engine. A lot of the big asset work for the game is done already.
The expectations for the Nintendo game on mobile are high. Shareholders wouldn't like indeed that game to be Pikmin.
HF2014
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Why im actually thinking that you might be right? I myself tough of a Pikmin space shooter like crossover from Starfox.
Lets be positive and it will only be a Pikmin game!
Skiesofwonder
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Well Miyamoto is personally invested in the pikmin series. Obviously he has ties to the F-Zero and Metroid series as well, but Pikmin is one of his babies. And he seems hell-bent on working with and making the series successful.
That does make some sense to me, but I don't know if it's a big enough IP to be worth leveraging. And I'm not sure they'd call it or refer to if as Pikmim 4 if it's for mobile and not a mainline series game. I suppose Pikmim could have a mainline series game on mobile but that would seem antithetical to their outlined mobile plans somehow.
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Banjotanooki
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The hell? This came out of nowhere.
Sooo...can you please randomly confirm Prime 4 tomorrow?
Sooo...can you please randomly confirm Prime 4 tomorrow?
No because that's ridiculous
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agiantenemycrab
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He also said this, apparently: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-hardware-technology-gets-better-and-advances
Walter Matthau
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Seems like a poor way of announcing the game, but I'm excited nonetheless. I still haven't opened Pikmin 3 yet as I'm working through some other games.
On the bright side, the fact they're they're referring to it as Pikmim 4 means it's less likely to be a spinoff or major shakeup in terms of the gameplay mechanics.
Well, if we take their words at value about wanting to highlight game coming out within a year of the E3 showing, that would put Pikmin 4 into the early fall of 2016.
Dr. Kitty Muffins
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I would rather they hold onto it for the NX.
Linkstrikesback
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According to wiki, Pikmin 3 didn't do badly. It moved over 200k units in America, managed to get #2 on the chart at uk launch (behind minecraft) and was the best selling game in launch week for Japan.
I don't know what people were expecting, but it can't work miracles. It's still a wii u game after all.
I only want the Christmas level.
And Nintendo did say they would be using their established IP for mobile. They wouldn't necessarily start with a new IP, they'd want to release something with an established user base for higher sales. That's what shareholders would ultimately care about.
And it's a B-tier IP, not something like Mario or Zelda, so it would be a good place to start without risking reputation.
Pikmin 3 it feels like they were teasing it on and off for like five years or something before officially announcing it.
Right. The reason being they only wanted to show games releasing within one year from E3 2015. Like it or not, they have been consistent with that.
Don't do this to you. You are missing the best installment on the series.