| RolStoppable said: Activate your critical thinking. Eurogamer doesn't consult Nintendo's headquarters, but the local Nintendo subsidiary. The subsidiary commonly doesn't have more to go on than something that was already publicly said by NCL or an NCL employee, so they simply repeated what had been said by Miyamoto. If Pikmin 4 had actually been close to completion like Miyamoto said in that interview, then Pikmin 4 would have been listed under upcoming games in Nintendo's financial report. 2.5 years have passed since the interview you linked, but Pikmin 4 has never been on such a list. Miyamoto loves Pikmin and he tried to pull the same stunt as he did at E3 2008 where he confirmed the development of Pikmin 3 despite the game not being in the works. Pikmin 3 didn't take five years to make (was released in summer 2013), you shouldn't believe that it took that long for one second. What has changed between 2008 and 2017 is that in 2008 Miyamoto was positioned as the mastermind of Nintendo, so in order to keep his reputation intact, Nintendo greenlit Pikmin 3 once a team was available. But in 2017 Miyamoto was a man who had fallen from grace, so he is told by PR that he shouldn't talk about Pikmin 4 (Miyamoto is laughing about that in the interview you linked). Not to keep the game a secret, but rather to not embarrass himself by promising a game that isn't getting made. |
By activate my critical thinking you mean blindly believe your assumptions? Nah, I go off what is actually real, what was said as well as what hasn't been said. Nintendo never corrected or denied these statements, so at best they're complacent with the lie.
