Niantic, creator of the great success Pokémon Go, announced a new partnership with Nintendo. The first new collaboration game will be an augmented reality mobile game based on the popular Nintendo game Pikmin franchise, and will be released later this year.
Details are scarce now, but Niantic says that “the app will include game activities to encourage walking and make walking more enjoyable.” If you would like to receive more information about the new game as it becomes available, sign up here for updates. The new Pikmin The AR game will be the first developed by Tokyo Studio from Niantic.
“Niantic’s AR technology has enabled us to experience the world as if Pikmin live secretly around us, ”Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto said in a statement. “Based on the theme of making hiking fun, our mission is to provide people with a new experience different from traditional games. We hope that the Pikmin and this app will become a partner in your life. “
THE Pikmin franchise is about exploring a planet much like Earth with packs of the adorable Pikmin creatures, so a Niantic made Pikmin game about walking and exploring the world around you makes a lot of sense. The last game of Pikmin series is Nintendo Switch’s Pikmin 3 Deluxe, an updated version of the 2013 game released for the first time on the Wii U.
Niantic did not say what other games it would make with Nintendo, but it appears that the two companies have entered into some kind of long-term partnership. “We are honored that Nintendo has chosen Niantic to be its publisher of real-world AR applications,” said Niantic. More details about the next apps will be revealed “in the coming months”.
Niantic is best known for Pokémon Go, the very popular mobile AR game released in July 2016. The game is still quite popular despite being almost five years old, although Niantic had to make some changes to the game while many stayed indoors due to the pandemic. of COVID-19. These changes have not stopped Pokémon Go to generate money hand in hand, however – 2020 was the biggest year of the game, surpassing $ 1 billion in revenue in November, according to application analyst Sensor Tower.