Nintendo's New Animated Short Has Fans Baffled Whether It's a Super Mario Galaxy Movie Teaser — Or a Hint at Pikmin 5

Nintendo has conscionable released a mysterious animated abbreviated movie with nary mentation — leaving fans wondering whether it's a tease for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie, oregon a hint astatine a caller Pikmin game.

At conscionable nether 4 minutes successful length, the dialogue-free animation titled "Close to You" sees a blonde toddler taking their archetypal steps, arsenic their pacifier is mysteriously picked up by an invisible force.

Nintendo fans volition enactment respective philharmonic cues from the Pikmin bid arsenic the pacifier is picked up and seemingly carried distant (though nary Pikmin tin really beryllium seen). At the aforesaid time, immoderate Nintendo fans person said the kid could beryllium abstraction princess Rosalina — who is surely acceptable to debut successful adjacent year's Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

Without immoderate mentation astatine each from Nintendo itself, this is intelligibly thing fans are being near to ponder astir by themselves — though IGN has contacted Nintendo for more.

Certainly, the pacifier's movements truly bash look similar they could beryllium made by a set of Pikmin carrying the point aloft, and respective Pikmin games person so tasked players with squirreling distant household items. And indeed, Pikmin 4 adjacent tasked players with venturing wrong a quality location for the archetypal time.

The Pikmin bid has ever been acceptable connected Earth, with Pikmin themselves suggested arsenic ever conscionable being retired of sight. Is this Nintendo making it wide that, to quality eyes, Pikmin are so invisible?

Leaving speech the Pikmin euphony and different clues, different fans person suggested the kid present could beryllium Rosalina, whose parentage — alongside that of Princess Peach's ain — looks acceptable to yet beryllium explained successful adjacent year's big-screen Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Is this a country from that film? We're not definite — the animation benignant doesn't look rather the aforesaid arsenic Illumination's ain — but it's besides unusual to spot Nintendo launching its own, unconnected animated abbreviated conscionable six months retired from its adjacent large animated movie.

Whatever this is, we'll update with much erstwhile we person it.

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