Nintendo teaming up with Niantic to create Pikmin mobile app

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Isaac Todd
March 23, 2021
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Nintendo has revealed that it’s working with Niantic on a mobile app themed around the Pikmin series.

Probably not the news fans have been hoping for, considering that they’ve been waiting on Pikmin 4 for more than five years, though this app shouldn’t delay development on the main games in any way.

The unnamed app will be using Niantic’s AR tech, with the aim being to “encourage walking and make the activity more enjoyable”. Head of Niantic Tokyo Studio Tatsuo Nomura also mentioned in a tweet that it’ll be “very different from Po[k]émon GO.”

I'm excited to finally able to announce this project that Niantic & Nintendo have been working with for the past few years. It's going to be an app that make walking more fun with Pikmin. It's going to be very different from Poémon GO. https://t.co/SEZONMDSa2
— Tatsuo Nomura/野村達雄 (@nomtats) March 23, 2021

Releasing some time this year, the Pikmin app is the first creation of Niantic Tokyo Studio, and one of multiple apps that the company and Nintendo are currently working on.

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