Oh, to dream...

I've thought it before, and this just furthers it: I don't think it's out of the question that Nintendo could unveil the new Pikmin at their traditional fall media summit, or some other event, and then release it before the end of the year.

That would be really cool. Do you think it will be on Wii, or that they'll reveal a 3DS version?

I think if it were on the 3DS it would have been at E3. Miyamoto's comments about not wanting it to be overshadowed don't really make sense if it's not a Wii game.

"The one thing that I can say about it is that it's a Wii game. " ~ Shigeru Miyamoto.

It's a Wii game.

Since he said a new character and not a new IP or franchise, it leads me to believe the character will be added to an existing game.

I can only hope it doesn't mean the game will be rushed out the door.

Wii Swim w/ floaties.

Are you ready for WaBirdo?

More like Wowser

aka Queen Wakoopa

Since he also mentioned that the last character he introduced was 10 years ago (Pikmin), I would be very surprised if it wasn't a new IP.

Where's a link to the original meeting? Am I missing that?

I'm just going off of what I read on Kotaku.

keep in mind this is most likely translated, so new character can mean new IP. I imagine it is cumbersome to use the phrase or abbreviation of "intellectual property" in Japanese.

We must be talking about a new IP because Nintendo has clearly introduced new characters to their existing franchises since then.  If it was just a new character in a game then why mention Pikmin?  Pikmin was a new IP.

Swimming is a good interest to inspire game design.  Chillin' with school children?  Not so much.

So are they not counting titles like Last Story or Xenoblade in that reference to new characters?

No, they aren't. Those may be Nintendo-published titles, but the companies who developed them aren't Nintendo-owned. I think Miyamoto was specifically referring to Nintendo themselves as the ones to introduce a new character. I guess they don't count Miis, though.

Uhhh Monolith is Nintendo owned and they are making Xenoblade. Really I think he meant the primary teams, not necessarily companies they own controlling interest in.

thank goodness for GP, i was going to correct them, but i got lazy.

Was it a relatively recent acquisition? Because they've released PS2 games. Regardless, it doesn't change my point, because other Nintendo-published titles have introduced new characters.

Nintendo bought Monolith Soft way back in August 2007.

And then failed to support most of their previous efforts. They made both Disaster and Soma Bringer. Both never came to North America.

But wait, I can see it now, ~~~~~~~~~~(dream sequence lines)~~~~~~

At the ticket booth, tickets are printed on Game and Watch replica playing cards, all food attendants are dressed up as colorful Toads and Kirby Chefs.

to my left I see the Super Mario Jumpman Palace where the kids run wild on a 100yard Mario obstacle course(me too, he he), Ohh I see my favorite twin roller-coaster ride, Mario Sunshine Splat where one coaster designed as Mario and the other as Dark Mario and you shoot mounted FLUDD's at each other as you race through Delfino cardboard cutouts

Now welcome to the World of You and Mii(for some reason they didn't use Wuhu Island) where we play a variety of WiiSports themed games and earn NinTiX to redeem prizes at the Nintendo Shop Channel Store(?)

And of course we must ride the Yoshi-Go-Round, visit Bowser's Haunted Castle where Boo's resemble white PacMan(men) for some reason, and for the parents that want to relax and let your children get lost, you have the Wii Vitality Center where they...too explicit.

Welcome to Konga Land(?) where you must ride the Mine Kart Koster(not as fun as you thought) and see that REAL banana peels are all over the ground! Once you get to the Hyrule area you notice that its just a 500yard area of grass that only had illusionist props that made you think you were actually walking toward Goron Mountain and the random stands only sell you Deku Seeds(walnuts) and warm milk!

F-Zero bumper cars!!!!!...was  just    like    regular    bu  mp er cars, (yawn).

Whats this on the ground? why those are Pikachu foot prints, I'd know them any where, you follow them all through the park to the biggest PokeBall gate ever and a Pikachu is holding a sign that says "Poke Park shall be opened once you defeat the Elite Four"(under construction)

As you and your family call it a day and your 6 year old sister has been scarred for life after seeing 100 6ft tall Pikmin try to get her to stop crying and every one is carrying around giant Porky Minch'sbecause there's a Mario shortage, you have this weird feeling..........did you see Luigi?

I think Nintendo might finally release the Marionette game. I think it could be fun to control on screen puppets or even sock puppets.

The mechs in Super Control Robot MG were called Marionation Gears, that may be what the trademark referred to.