Miyamoto: Pikmin 3 had bij Wii U lancering uit moeten komen

Pikmin 3 is alweer een tijdje terug aangekondigd en Nintendo liet de game nog zien op de E3 van afgelopen jaar. Helaas heeft de game de lancering van de Wii U niet gehaald en is het spel nog steeds niet verschenen. Erg jammer naar ons idee en dat vindt Nintendo’s Miyamoto zelf ook. De man achter de Pikmin serie had de game zelf ook liever bij de launch of vlak na de launch van de Wii U gezien. Waarom is de game dan niet bij de lancering verschenen? Reden hiervoor volgens Miyamoto is onder andere de nieuwheid van de Wii U en de tijd die het nodig heeft alle nieuwe mogelijkheden optimaal te benutten:

“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 bit 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.

At the same time, we still have new things to learn about how to leverage the features and functionalities of Wii U in ways that create fun and interesting new ways to play, including new gameplay systems. As we become even more familiar with the hardware, we’ll be able to do more from a software standpoint. That’s an area we’re currently devoting resources to.”