
Nearly a decade has passed without any fresh Pikmin titles, excluding Niantic's 2021 augmented reality mobile game, Pikmin Bloom, so having a graphically improved version to play could be extremely beneficial for Nintendo. RELATED: 10 Most Iconic Astronauts From Games Nintendo Has Not Forgotten Pikmin Following its release in July 2017, Miyamoto assuaged people's concerns, which may suggest that Pikmin 4 will make an overdue debut in the coming years. Many people speculated that Hey! Pikmin, a 2D action puzzle game, developed by Arzest for the Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 2DS XL, was the game that Miyamoto was referring to, especially because it was marketed as a sequel to Pikmin 3. Miyamoto was quoted as saying in 2015 that Pikmin 4 was "close to completion." Seven years later, unfortunately, the game has not been released nor have there been any real updates on its progress. Pikmin 4 is unique, however, in that the only news about its existence has come from the sequence creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, rather than from the company itself.

Updates to these franchises signify Nintendo's desire and ability to revisit older games, so there shouldn't be any reason not to come back to its adorable little astronaut game.

Speculation from fans has led them to believe it may be on the horizon, in part because of the recent additions to decade-old franchises such as Metroid Dread, Animal Crossing, and WarioWare. The latest iteration in the nostalgic Pikmin puzzle and strategy series, Pikmin 4, has supposedly been in development for some time now.
