Nintendo’s weird Pikmin videos were short films, not announcement teasers

When Nintendo unexpectedly dropped a cute cartoon astir a baby learning however to locomotion earlier this week, radical understandably thought that the crippled workplace mightiness person been teasing a caller oregon animated feature. “Close to You” turned retired to beryllium a Pikmin situation alternatively of a uncover for caller IP, and Nintendo has conscionable clarified that the video is really a abbreviated film rather than a teaser for a caller game.

In a station shared to X, Nintendo announced contiguous that some versions of “Close to You” are tiny movies that were produced by Nintendo Pictures, the company’s recently-acquired CG accumulation arm.

The institution besides said that Nintendo Pictures “will proceed to instrumentality connected assorted challenges with videos successful the future,” implying that we’re astir apt going to beryllium seeing a batch much of this contented that’s meant to get radical excited (and promote them to cheque retired the Nintendo Today app).