Pikmin 4 in development and "very close to completion"

[Goodnightmoon]

Soundwave said:

RolStoppable said:
From a business perspective, it makes no sense that this game was greenlit. But if it's already close to completion, then the only thing left to do is hope that they include features that should have been in Pikmin 3. Like a co-op campaign.

My guess is they feel like they made the Pikmin engine for HD, and if they just move on from it, then the effort/budget spent on it will kind of be a waste because Pikmin 3 didn't exactly sell that great. So double dipping with the same engine and make another game out of it might be their way of recouping some of the initial costs they spent on making the first game. 

Not sure, Pikmin 3 sales are not bad (probably around 1 milion counting digital), knowing that Pikmin 2 sold 1.2 milions then Pikmin 3 was probably meant to be profitable selling less than a milion, and Pikmin 3 at its core was a Wii game, they upgraded it to WiiU with all new gorgeous high definition textures, illumination effects and more stuff and is one of the prettiest games on the console but it doesn´t seem like they did an entire new engine for it as it doesn´t really take profit of the WiiU potential, and I´m sure the improvements on HD development that they did with that game have been used in more games so the investment was really worth it.