Miyamoto would have liked Pikmin 3 released closer to Wii U launch

Pikmin 3’s release date is still up in the air, it should be out sometime before the middle of the year but that’s still a few months away. Miyamoto too shares our pain and he wishes the game could have been released sooner.

Speaking with Time, Miyamoto has said that the plan with the Wii U was to release on familiar title and then something new.

“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 big longer.”

[pullquote_right]”It would have been nice if we’d been able to release Pikmin 3 closer to launch”[/pullquote_right]

“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 utilise 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.”

The past few months for the Wii U have been pretty hopeless, but with Pikmin 3 on the way and two big games this month – things are finally looking up.