I've never played a Pikmin game, but I hear they're amazingly fun. I'll be keeping an eye on this... I might be compelled to play the series. Not really feeling it right now though.

I did find it funny that Miyamoto is praising the HD capabilities of the Wii U.

Fun fact: they originally tested Pikmin to see what kind of stress load the Gamecube could handle. Remember how you could control 200 at a time? Apparently the Gamecube could have handled a thousand, but seeing them and controlling them became almost impossible at that scale.

HD graphics and the Wii U may fix both of those problems. We'll see in time.

I think it's more likely that higher resolution graphics offer more information about the scores of units on the screen at any one time. I've always thought that HD is best suited for strategy and simulation titles where a lot is going on.

Cant wait to see the game in action at E3... I hope it's as good looking as that bird demo they showed off last year.

Okay, so with that kind of power we can actually get 200 Pikmin at the time, bigger and much more detailed landmasses, and even 60FPS?
Heck, yeah! Count me in.

No no no, we already had 200 Pikmin. This would let us see 1000 of them with the same fidelity we saw 200 at before.

good

now all that needs to come to Wii U is a REAL Paper Mario(not that super paper mario sh!t that was on the wii)

Actually I was thinking that with HD graphics they could put more detail to the enviroments and make them look almost lifelike, hence closed to what he had in mind.

And, as Khuutra says, if you add thousands of little pikmins in there, you'd never see the gardens as you did before

I know, but we can see 200 with much more security working perfectly in-game.