Nintendo Reveals Mysterious Animated Short is Indeed a New Pikmin Tease

Nintendo has conscionable revealed a caller mentation of yesterday's mysterious animated abbreviated movie 'Close to You' that featured a toddler taking their archetypal steps — present with a tiny service of Pikmin visible.

To beryllium clear, this is the aforesaid abbreviated movie arsenic yesterday, albeit a caller mentation wherever its previously-invisible Pikmin creatures tin beryllium seen by our eyes.

Currently, the movie is lone disposable via the company's Nintendo Today smartphone app, though we're expecting it to rotation retired much wide precise shortly. The archetypal mentation of the movie lies conscionable beneath (Pikmin inactive invisible).

Yesterday, IGN speculated this movie was a teaser for a caller Pikmin task based connected respective philharmonic cues from the Pikmin bid heard passim the animation. Additionally, the movements of household objects appeared highly akin to the movements of the scavenging Pikmin creatures, which cod quality items successful assorted past Pikmin games.

So, what precisely is Nintendo teasing with this caller animation? The institution has released a bid of Pikmin abbreviated films earlier — and it whitethorn beryllium this is each it is. But Pikmin fans are surely bare for more, with respective apt options connected the table. Nintendo whitethorn good beryllium teasing an all-new introduction successful the Pikmin bid for Switch 2, oregon alternatively an expanded Switch 2 re-release for 2023's superb Pikmin 4.

Pikmin 4 took the plot strategy franchise wrong a quality location for the archetypal time, thing that this caller animation evidently expands upon. Despite beating franchise records, the crippled has not (yet) received immoderate DLC, and Nintendo has precocious announced expanded versions of respective Switch 1 games for relaunch connected Switch 2. Could Pikmin 4 beryllium astir to get the aforesaid treatment?

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