{"id":125806,"date":"2022-06-17T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-133284"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:00:00","slug":"random-its-been-five-years-since-weve-heard-anything-about-pikmin-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/17\/random-its-been-five-years-since-weve-heard-anything-about-pikmin-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: It&#8217;s Been Five Years Since We&#8217;ve Heard Anything About Pikmin 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bbdd0e617eec2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bbdd0e617eec2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/bbdd0e617eec2\/pikmin-3.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pikmin 3\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of years ago, we were joking around because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin\">Pikmin 4<\/a> \u2014 the fourth mainline title in the Pikmin series \u2014 had been announced five years ago with not much else to go on. Fast-forward to today and, well, we&#8217;re still waiting!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just having a little bit of fun here, but, strangely, the last thing we heard about Pikmin 4 was in <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/miyamoto-pikmin-4-still-progressing\">an interview with Eurogamer in 2017<\/a>. Yep, that&#8217;s right! Pikmin creator Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with the good folks over at the site during E3 2017 (remember E3?), where he said to them &#8220;&#8230;I can tell you it is progressing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoMemo\">@NintendoMemo<\/a> \u2014 who reshared a snippet of the article today in memory of its publication almost five years <em>to the day<\/em> later \u2014 we&#8217;re now really sad that we&#8217;re still waiting for a brand new Pikmin game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5 years ago, Miyamoto Shigeru confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurogamer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@eurogamer<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pikmin4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pikmin4<\/a> development is progressing! \ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf82\ud83e\udd73 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xGRy6ETMGk\">pic.twitter.com\/xGRy6ETMGk<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo Memories (@NintendoMemo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoMemo\/status\/1537779084536778752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So where are our cute little space plants? In the years since we&#8217;ve seen the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/hey_pikmin\">Hey! Pikmin<\/a> on the 3DS in 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pikmin_bloom\">Pikmin Bloom<\/a>, Niantic&#8217;s mobile game. If either of these are meant to be Pikmin 4, then we&#8217;d love to know! But we would <em>really<\/em> love a new Pikmin game to play on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>We came up with a list of theories as to what could&#8217;ve happened to Pikmin 4 back in 2020. Some of these are out-of-date, of course, and<\/p>\n<p>And, well, we suppose we did get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_3_deluxe\">Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a> back in 2020 \u2014 and that was fabulous \u2014 but it only makes us want more from Olimar and friends. All we want to know is what&#8217;s happening with Pikmin \u2014 should we abandon hope of a fourth numbered title?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there&#8217;s just a shred of hope here (or maybe we&#8217;re expecting way too much) but maybe that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/06\/rumour-nintendo-direct-to-take-place-later-this-month\">rumoured Nintendo Direct<\/a> at the end of the month can shed some light on the whereabouts of Pikmin and co.? We know we said it&#8217;s unlikely in our list below, but 3\/10 means there&#8217;s at least a sliver of hope!<\/p>\n<p>Whatever has happened to Pikmin 4, it&#8217;s okay really. If Nintendo is still working on a true numbered sequel, then it can take its time. If not, then we&#8217;d be disappointed, but at least we&#8217;d know where we stand.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, happy fifth anniversary to Pikmin 4 &#8220;progressing&#8221;, even if Miyamoto technically wasn&#8217;t meant to say anything. Perhaps next time we write about this game it&#8217;ll be better news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo A couple of years ago, we were joking around because Pikmin 4 \u2014 the fourth mainline title in the Pikmin series \u2014 had been announced five years ago with not much else to go on. Fast-forward to today and, well, we&#8217;re still waiting! We&#8217;re just having a little bit of fun here, but, [&hellip;]<\/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-125806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125806","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=125806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}