Bold Prediction Wii U will have a true Animal Crossing game

[Miyamotoo]

curl-6 said:

Miyamotoo said:

What you think when you say low budget, certainly bigger budget than Mario Tennis or Amiibo Festival, but low budget in comparison with Zelda, Mario 3D, Smash. Bros, completely new Pikmin game, very likely smaller budget than Yoshi Wooly World for instance or some other 2D Nintendo game.

By low budget, yeah, I mean stuff like Mario Tennis, Amiibo Festival, Twilight Princess HD.

Pikmin 4 would be cheap compared something Zelda U or Xenoblade, but it would still be a medium-sized project, similar to the likes of Splatoon.

Mario Tennis, Amiibo Festival are very low budget projects, that games could be made for less than 6 months. So there is not really games that you can compare with them,I think even TP HD has much bigger budget. Zelda U and X are probably bigest Wii U projects, also not good comparing, Splatoon isn't also good comparison because they continue to work even after launch.

About Pikmin 4 for Wii U think about 1/3 of Pikmin 3 budget. Like said they already have Pikmin 3 enigine, assets and models, and for Pikmin 4 they just need new levels, few new enemies and bosses, one or the new mechanics, and story. Not to mention that team that developed first game for Wii U is very familiar with Wii U architecture and Pikmin development process, so whole development process for Pikmin 4 onw Wii U would be very fast.

Like I wrote on first place, very similar situation with GC Pikmin games and think that Miyamoto wants to do same thing on Wii U too.