- Miyamoto wa asked about the status of Pikmin 4 diuring E3 (have no idea why this bit was published some hours ago) to which he responded:

“Yes, you are right, and we’re working on [Pikmin 4]. So, you know, when we’re in development we have to create a list of priorities and it has been hard to kind of fit that into that list, but we’re hopefully starting to see that on the list now.”

- Miyamoto said Pikmin 4 was close to completion during E3 2015

http://gamerant.com/pikmin-4-update-miyamoto/

I bet that list is full of N and X.

And Pikmin has been renamed to Zikmin.

My guess that Pikmin 4 initaly was only Wii U game, but along side and death of Wii U they decided to completely move project to NX, so that definitely required more time for game, and like Miyamoto said they have higher priority games most likely for launch. After this Miyamoto statement I am not sure anymore about Pikmin 4 at NX launch, but I still expecting to see it in next year.

Imho Pikmin 4 is ready and done for NX from almost a year, which leaves plenty of time for the Pikmin team to work on something new which is pretty exciting !

Sounds like nintendo needs more developers if they're having to put projects on hold to prioritize something else.

Even they had more developers they would again do same thing, you always have some priorite, and lotsa Nintendo teams are always working on lotsa different projects.

Hmm, I still hope Pikmin 4 is a launch title or a summer release but if they've got higher priority games I can understand. It's more important that they get anything Mario, Smash, splatoon out as soon as they can afford. Same goes for new IP, at least 1 or 2 big ones are needed in year 1 to help entice new players. I wouldn't be surprised if they had to outsource Pikmin in order to get it out in 2017 due to having prioritised so many other games.

I'd bet Pikmin 4 wasn't in development at all. Miyamoto forced development of Pikmin 3 by announcing it at e3 a few years ago which forced Nintendo into making it. Pikmin 3 did not sell well and there is no reason to put resources into Pikmin over other game series (I'm a Pikmin fan btw).

This was probably Miyamotos attempt to force Nintendo to make another Pikmin title since he really loves the series. But this time management said no.

You would lose. :)

Pikmin 3 first was announced at E3 2008. and in 2011. they announced that is moved to Wii U, and it was relaesed in middle of 2013 after few delays.

Miyamoto around last E3 said that is Pikmin 4 almost finished, Pikmin 4 definatly started life like Wii U project, and basically they could make Pikmin 4 very fast and cheap buy reusing Pikmin 3 engine and assets (basically same way they done Pikmin 2), but along way when was obvious that Wii U is dead and that NX is coming they moved Pikmin 4 completly to NX.

Pikmin 3 sold around 1m thats enuf for Nintendo to make profit, espacily with sales of DLCs. Also Pikmin would sell much better if isnt come in worst time for Wii U, when Wii U had catastrophic sales and people acutaly forget that Wii U exist at all.

Yes, Miyamoto loves Pikmin, but not only that he made Pikmin movies, that earlier said that he have lotsa new ideas for Pikmin, he basically said that Pikmin 4 was almost complete, that means that development of game progressd far away. Miyamoto is management :), basically he is most important and most influence persone in Nintendo after Kimishima, if Miyamoto really wants to make some game he will make it easily, nobody really can't tell him you cant make that.

Saying all that, Pikmin is great game any gives huge variety to line of any console, but its not a system seller, and thats exactly what Miyamoto says here, that they prioritize some more important games while they preparing NX launch lineup but that Pikmin 4 will be somewhere also one that list. Also Pikmin 3 was one of best Wii U games, and next game will be at least god as Pikmin 3, so I cant wait to see Pikmin 4 espacily beacuse Pikmin 3 looks beatifule even on Wii U hardware.