{"id":136668,"date":"2026-04-01T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-199359"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:25:00","slug":"im-on-a-mission-miyamoto-wants-to-include-pikmin-in-any-kind-of-nintendo-product-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/im-on-a-mission-miyamoto-wants-to-include-pikmin-in-any-kind-of-nintendo-product-he-can\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m On A Mission&#8221; &#8211; Miyamoto Wants To Include Pikmin In Any Kind Of Nintendo Product He Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cbbc07fcfaec8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cbbc07fcfaec8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"cbbc07fcfaec8\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pikmin Miyamoto\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cbbc07fcfaec8\/pikmin-miyamoto.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cbbc07fcfaec8\/pikmin-miyamoto.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Pikmin Miyamoto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Miyamoto has spoken on many occasions about his love of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_4\">Pikmin<\/a> and how there is effectively no restriction on where they can appear.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen them pop up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/super-mario-bros-wonder-nintendo-switch-2-edition-plus-meetup-in-bellabel-park\">Mario Wonder<\/a>, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/12\/random-the-japanese-football-team-sponsored-by-nintendo-now-has-pikmin-on-its-shirt\">back of football shirts<\/a>, and even at Nintendo&#8217;s theme parks, and their global expansion is set to continue. Speaking to IGN recently, Miyamoto has reiterated how it&#8217;s his &#8220;mission&#8221; to try and get Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product he can.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Shigeru Miyamoto:<\/strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m on a mission to try to include Pikmin in any kind of Nintendo product we put up. And obviously Pikmin can be appearing anywhere&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pikmin will also surface in&#8230;<strong>spoiler alert<\/strong>&#8230;Mario&#8217;s new cinematic outing, and Miyamoto&#8217;s reasoning here is that the &#8220;setting of Galaxy really lends itself to having Pikmin be there as part of the world&#8221;. The same movie will also include some other Nintendo characters.<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto has previously labelled Pikmin as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/07\/miyamoto-considers-pikmin-to-be-nintendos-most-global-characters\">Nintendo&#8217;s &#8220;most global characters&#8221;<\/a> and considers &#8220;video games to be just one of the worlds in which Pikmin live&#8221;. We&#8217;ve even seen entire shorts dedicated to these tiny little creatures over the past year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:152953,192869,198515 @ 1775021508 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>How do you feel about the possibility of Pikmin showing up in any Nintendo product? <em>Give us your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miyamoto has spoken on many occasions about his love of Pikmin and how there is effectively no restriction on where they can appear. We&#8217;ve seen them pop up in Mario Wonder, on the back of football shirts, and even at Nintendo&#8217;s theme parks, and their global expansion is set to continue. Speaking to IGN recently, [&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-136668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136668","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=136668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}