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Nintendo’s ‘Close to You’ Short Gets Pikmin Reveal in App-Only Update

Nintendo has not said whether the piece is teasing a game, a screen project, or a one-off short.

Overview

  • The revised cut shows red, blue, and yellow Pikmin causing the nursery hijinks, with the updated version currently viewable only in the Nintendo Today app.
  • Tuesday’s original upload arrived without context, repeated the title in the description, and had comments disabled on YouTube.
  • Early viewer theories citing Pikmin music cues and a blurred background figure have been validated, while speculation about a Rosalina tie-in to The Super Mario Galaxy Movieemains unconfirmed.
  • NiNintendo Pictures, the in-house studio formed from the 2022 Dynamo Pictures acquisition, has previously produced Pikmin shorts, underscoring Nintendo’s growing animation push and app-first rollouts.
  • Lore from Pikmin Bloom that Pikmin are invisible to humans matches the short’s conceit, yet Nintendo has offered no guidance on whether further content or announcements will follow.