{"id":117595,"date":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/nintendo_reinstates_pikmin_3_on_the_wii_u_eshop_ahead_of_the_switch_release"},"modified":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T16:00:00","slug":"nintendo-reinstates-pikmin-3-on-the-wii-u-eshop-ahead-of-the-switch-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/nintendo-reinstates-pikmin-3-on-the-wii-u-eshop-ahead-of-the-switch-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Reinstates Pikmin 3 On The Wii U eShop Ahead Of The Switch Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Update:<\/strong> The game has apparently now reappeared for digital purchase on the Wii U eShop<\/a>. So, if you haven’t played Pikmin 3 before, this means you still have the option to buy and experience the game in its non-Deluxe, vanilla (and much cheaper) form on the hardware it was originally designed for.<\/p>\n

Here at Nintendo Life, that’s what we like to call A Very Good Thing\u2122. Thanks to Dogorilla for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Original Story (Thu 6th Aug, 2020 01:55 BST):<\/strong> It’s official: Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> is arriving on the Nintendo Switch this October<\/a> and will come packed with all<\/em> of the DLC and even some brand new side story content featuring Olimar and Louie.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for the future of Pikmin 3<\/a><\/strong> on the Wii U, though? While we wouldn’t normally be asking a question like this – as discovered by Nintendo Everything, the original version of this game has now been delisted from this particular eShop (this includes the removal of the DLC as well). Yep, it’s gone!<\/em><\/p>\n

On the Nintendo website, the Wii U game page for Pikmin 3<\/a> is there, but there’s no longer a way to purchase the game. If you own a physical copy of this title, you can obviously still play it on your Wii U and if you’ve already bought a digital copy from the system’s eShop, you shouldn’t have any problems downloading the game.<\/p>\n

Nintendo has pulled this same move in the past with games like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/a><\/strong> – ahead of ‘Deluxe’ re-releases on Switch (although in saying this, DKC:TF has since returned to the Wii U eShop – at least in Europe – and is<\/em> available for purchase). Pikmin 3 on Wii U was priced at $19.99 and the Deluxe version is valued at $59.99 on Nintendo’s hybrid system.<\/p>\n

Did you manage to grab a digital copy of Pikmin 3 for Wii U before it was pulled? Could this just be a temporary removal? How do you feel about Nintendo taking down games while the Wii U eShop is still up and running? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: The game has apparently now reappeared for digital purchase on the Wii U eShop. So, if you haven’t played Pikmin 3 before, this means you still have the option to buy and experience the game in its non-Deluxe, vanilla (and much cheaper) form on the hardware it was originally designed for. Here at Nintendo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}