

The game is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Pikmin 4 doesn’t have a release date as of yet. Here’s everything else we know: Pikmin 4 Release Date Now that the Nintendo Switch is selling extremely well, it seems that Nintendo is a touch more eager to bring back some of their most popular series as well as re-introduce some of the Wii U’s best games to the Switch audience.

He said in 2015 that a Pikmin game is close to completion - we have no transcript of that interview so we can only trust Eurogamers journalism, which is suspect considering they had no idea that Hey Pikmin even existed and so any Pikmin news would have been considered Pikmin 4 news. The lack of a Pikmin sequel in all that time seems to speak more to Nintendo’s unique release strategy than it does their faith in the franchise as a whole. He literally said 'Hey pikmin is not pikmin 4'. By all accounts, Pikmin 3 also sold extremely well with some reports suggesting that it sold over 200,000 units before the end of 2013. The game received overwhelmingly positive reviews for its innovative use of the Wii U tablet and general advancement of the Pikmin mechanics. It’s been a few years since Pikmin 3 released for Wii U in 2013. Nintendo confirmed Miyamoto’s assertions in a separate statement by claiming that “ Pikmin 4 is in development but that is all we can confirm at present.”
