Pikmin 4 is Happening, Nintendo Confirms

<p>A fourth Pikmin game is happening&comma; folks – and Nintendo has finally confirmed it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking to Eurogamer back in July&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s own <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;shigeru-miyamoto-comments-on-satoru-iwatas-passing&sol;">Shigeru Miyamoto<&sol;a> originally confirmed the existence of a fourth installment in the real-time strategy series which he claimed at the times was &&num;8220&semi;actually very close to completion&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo has unsurprisingly corroborated the news to multiple sources over the last few hours&comma; despite there being no official word on what system it could be for&period; &&num;8220&semi;We can confirm that Pikmin 4 is in development&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the company said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;but that is all we can confirm at present&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though the Wii U remains the company&&num;8217&semi;s primary home console for the time being&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s been speculated that it could be made for its newest model that was announced this past March&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;nintendo-announces-new-mobile-deal-teases-nx-platform&sol;">codenamed NX<&sol;a>&period; Details haven&&num;8217&semi;t been very forthcoming on the platform&comma; but we do know that Nintendo coincidentally patented a design for a home console <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;21&sol;nintendo-files-patent-for-console-with-no-optical-drive">without an optical disc-drive<&sol;a> earlier this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Pikmin series last saw a full-fledged entry in 2013 with <em>Pikmin 3 <&sol;em>for the Wii U&comma; eleven years since its debut in 2001 on the Nintendo Gamecube&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespot&period;com&sol;articles&sol;pikmin-4-in-development-and-very-close-to-completi&sol;1100-6430362&sol;">Gamespot<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-07-20-pikmin-4-in-development-and-very-close-to-completion">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;