Do you think we're gonna see Pikmin 4 this year?

[Louie]

I think this was either meant to be the 3DS game or Miyamoto flat out lied. Didn't he say something like "once a Pikmin game is done the team instantly starts work on the next one"? Yeah, that's bollocks. Pikmin is a niche series for Nintendo and doesn't have priority. It's just Miyamoto who really likes the series and, a few years ago, still had the internal power to make things happen. But for some time now Nintendo's younger developers have been more in charge at the company and that's why we haven't seen Pikmin 4 yet (so if the game Miyamoto talked about was Pikmin 4 it certainly wasn't almost done in 2015).