Could Nintendo be teasing new Pikmin?

Nintendo shared a brand new animated brief on-line, and it has followers scratching their heads. The new video titled “Close To You” was shared on October seventh and follows a child in a nursery.

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The gaming firm offered zero content material to the video, so followers are understandably confused. However, some people are having enjoyable guessing what the brief may imply.

Fans react to Nintendo’s brief

Many persons are having fun with Nintendo’s teasing whereas others are wanting to know extra.

“No explanation, no context, no credits; just Koji Kondo jammin on the piano.
Absolutely love when Nintendo does weird stuff for no discernible reason whatsoever,” one fan wrote.

“Alright, Nintendo, I know you don’t like revealing your devs until a game is out, but I DESPERATELY need some context here, who made this and WHY???,” one other fan shared.

Could Nintendo be teasing new Pikmin?

The main principle about “Close to You” is that Nintendo is teasing one thing Pikmin-related.

First launched in 2001, Pikmin is a real-time technique and puzzle recreation. The characters in Pikmin are plant/animal hybrid aliens which have turn out to be beloved by the gaming neighborhood. There are a number of Pikmin video games and spin-offs along with three animated shorts that had been launched in 2014.

You can take a look at a number of the Pikmin theories beneath:

“I think Nintendo might be teasing a new Pikmin project. If you look closely in the background during this scene, there is something moving that looks like it could be Pikmin,” one eagle-eyed viewer wrote.

“People are saying you can hear this Pikmin song from when the baby starts walking at 3:13!” another person claimed.

Other people are leaning into the Pikmin lore:

The large query: may this be a couple of Pikmin 5 or a film?

However, not everyone seems to be impressed with Nintendo’s advertising technique.

Pikmin followers will certainly keep glued to Nintendo’s social media pages till extra is revealed. In the meantime, there’s so much to sit up for from the gaming firm, together with a live-action Zelda film.

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