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Miyamoto: "It Would Have Been Nice" If Pikmin 3 Released Closer To The Wii U's Launch

Posted on Monday, March 11 @ 14:10:00 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


The Wii U has been going through a bit of a rough patch since it first launched late last year. Thanks to a rather weak software lineup, there hasn't been a whole lot available to keep gamers hooked on the company's new tablet-centric machine. Mario mastermind, Shigeru Miyamoto, laments the fact that Pikmin 3 wasn't ready on day one, and I'm sure you feel the same way.

Miyamoto told TIME:

If you look back at the launch of Wii, we were able to prepare a game like Wii Sports, which at the time was clearly a new game, and launch that alongside a Zelda game. With the Wii U, we took a similar approach by launching Nintendo Land as well as a Mario game — though we’re working on Zelda for Wii U, that’s going to take us a little big [sic] longer.

From my perspective, I think ideally it would have been nice if we’d been able to release Pikmin 3 closer to launch, but the Wii U — though it shares the Wii name — is obviously a brand new system, with new chips and graphical capabilities. It can do a lot more, and in the process of developing a lot of the features and functionality, the resources required to best utilize those features drew on some of the same resources that might have been spent developing games, thus we weren’t able to bring quite as robust a lineup initially.

Bearing all that mind, do you think that an earlier release of Pikmin 3 would have been enough to tide gamers over long enough to keep them engaged with the system until more exciting first-party software (hopefully) arrives? Sound off with your thoughts in the comments below.

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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Mar 11th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
    It also would have been nice if I hadn't just watched a video of the Gameboy Camera error screens, but we don't always get what we want, do we?
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Mar 11th, 2013 at 2:31 pm
    I would have to say no. Pikmin is a good franchise I am sure, but compared to Zelda or Mario, it wouldn't be a system seller I think.
  • Ivory_Soul
    Ivory_Soul

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Mar 11th, 2013 at 2:47 pm
    I keep seeing articles about Miyamoto saying "It would have been nice if..." with the WiiU. Sounds like Iwata has everyone's balls in a vice with this system.
  • DaVillain
    DaVillain

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Mar 11th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
    A gaming console without any games. How convenient.
  • gulllllll
    gulllllll

    Joined: Mar 2013
    Posted: Mar 12th, 2013 at 12:09 am
    I have run out of games to play for my wii u, its now sitting on my tv collecting dust . nintendo should of had all those games promised like the mario kart , yoshi, zelda ,mario 3d , pikmin 3. etc they all should of been at launch and then made more and just gone crazy with making more games . If they did that the wii u would of sold well .Its like one extreme to another xbox and playstation have too many games and wii u have fuk all!!, id rather have too many games.

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