News and Interviews

Various news articles and interviews done about Pikmin

Pikmin 2 Development Staff Interview

Language: Japanese
Date: Unknown
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An interview with a few developers of Pikmin 2, hosted on Nintedo's website. They ask questions about game design and audio design. It is ended with the developers talking about how pleased they are with the final product.

Hobonichi Miyamoto/Pikmin 2 Interview

Language: Japanese
Date: July 15th, 2004
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An interview with Miyamoto about both Zelda and Pikmin, the Pikmin 2 section is near the bottom. They talk about his role in creating it and his general thoughts.

Pikmin 2 IGN Interview

Language: English
Date: August 24, 2004 - Updated on May 20, 2012
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Note: I am unaware of what the 2012 update changed, as the earliest snapshot saved to the Wayback Machine is dated 2015. The article is a transcript for a private press-confrance held for the media. Once again, most questions are about design choices made for the game, spesifically ones made in response to critisisms of the first game. Intrestingly, someone asked about the potential for a Pikmin 3 on Gamecube or DS, though the only answer was that further development couldn't be talked about. They do discuss desires to find more ways to work with the pikmin, though.

Gamespot New Play Control Pikmin Q&A

Language: English
Date: February 27, 2009
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Gamespot interview with Shigefumi Hino (the project leader of the original Pikmin for gamecube), asking mostly about how motion controls have changed the game but also about how a Pikmin game for the DS would work and how the game may have been received compared to how it did on the Gamecube. Quick warning, the article's introduction does describe the pikmin as "enslaved" which is both inaccurate and insensitive.

4Gamer Miyamoto/Pikmin 3 Interview

Language: Japanese
Date: July 13, 2013
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For this site, you have to click on the 1-3 buttons near the top to switch between the pages of the interview. This works on both archive sites, but note that Archive.is will open these pages in new tabs. An interview with Miyamoto about Pikmin 3, its game design choices, and mistakes learned from past instalments. This one comes off as a much more casual conversation than a formal interview, resulting in a more natural flow and many points being discussed.
Here's links to three tumblr posts that translate the pages to english: part one, part two, and part three. Archives of these links will be added at another time.

Gamewatch Miyamoto/Pikmin 3 Interview

Language: Japanese
Date: July 13, 2013
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Another interview with Miyamoto about Pikmin 3, its delays, how the hardwear of the WiiU has changed the game, and some more game design questions. They also talk about the then upcoming short films.

Famitsu Miyamoto/Pikmin 3 Interview

Language: Japanese
Date: July 21, 2013
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Another interview with Miyamoto about Pikmin 3, this time focusing on the hardwear of the game and a few behind-the-scenes facts (such as the confirmation of a failed attempt to make a pikmin DS game).

Gamespot "Pikmin 4 Still Happening" Article

Language: English
Date: July 7, 2016
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The infamous article promising us Pikmin 4 will really happen, we swear guys it'll be here. Pikmin 4 was announced on September 13 2022, a little over 6 years after this article was posted.

Eurogamer "Pikmin 4 is Progressing" Article

Language: English
Date: June 19, 2017
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The article mentions being updated on the 19th of June, but I was unable to find an original upload date. This is yet another article mentioning the promise for a pikmin 4, though it is incredibly short.

Official Sites

Sites made by Nintendo to promote Pikmin.

Pikmin Space Force

Language: English
Date: November 2001
Wayback Machine Archive Link (only avaliable link)
Pikmin Space Force was a browser based game that has largely been lost to time, though some remenents remain. The WayBack Machine is the only archive that I know of, and its capture is a little wonky. You can also check out this tweet for a video on how the site looked, which has also archived to archive.org!

Pikmin 2 Character Personality Quiz

Language: Japanese
Date: Unknown
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An official Pikmin personality quiz, which will assign a number of characters to you such as Olimar, the President, or the pikmin themselves! Note that some bits of text are actually images and thus cannot easily be machine translated AND that the Archive.is mirror doesn't fully work as of adding it to this list.

Official Pikmin 3 Site

Language: English
Date: January 8, 2014
Site link no longer avaliable (site has been updated to instead be about Pikmin 3 Deluxe)
Wayback Machine Archive Link
Archive.is Link
Official site to advertize the original Pikmin 3 for the Wii U, date is based on the archive I used here; earlier verions exist that have a diffrent lay out. Has a lot of fun stuff you can poke around at regarding the story and new mechanics.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe Site

Language: English
Date: November 1, 2020
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The official Pikmin 3 Deluxe site for promoting the game. Date is based on the archive used for these links.

Pikmin 4 Nintendo Store Page

Language: English
Date: Febuary 8, 2023
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Where you can/could order Pikmin 4 from Nintendo's official site, mainly here as it contains a promotional blurb that revealed some information that was uniqe to it at the time of archiving.

Other

Other sites I couldn't quite find a solid catigory for.

NoClip

Language: English
Date: ~2018
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Archive.is Link is not avaliable
A site that lets you "fly around" various maps in various games, including Pikmin 2 (mainly the 4 main levels, their beta/piklopedia varients, the main menu varients, and the skyboxes used in some caves)! Think what Boundary Break does. Note that functionality of the sight is spotty when using it through the WayBack machine and that is is completly incompatable with Archive.is. Exact date it was published is unknown, but I'm estimating around 2018 based on some information given in its GitHub page.