{"id":820910,"date":"2026-11-01T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820910\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:56:13","slug":"pikmin-4-nintendo-switch-2-edition-launches-12th-november-and-a-demo-is-out-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820910\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches 12th November and a demo is out tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pikmin-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pikmin 4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> Edition will launch on 12th November, bundled with a new mode called Dandori Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo confirmed the date during yesterday&#8217;s surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pikmin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pikmin<\/a> Day Direct, which also revealed that a demo will land on the Nintendo eShop on 2nd November. Any progress you make in the demo will transfer to the full game if you buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Pikmin Day Direct.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-1lQh551UY\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dandori Academy is a timed exam mode. The Direct showed off one of its exams, Gargantuan Garden, which challenges players to collect gold nuggets before time runs out (<a href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/pikmin-4-switch-2-edition-release-date\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thanks, Insider Gaming<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Switch 2 Edition will also let you give voice commands to Oatchi, the game\u2019s dog companion. If you already own Pikmin 4 on the original Switch, you can buy an upgrade pack from the eShop.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo had warned ahead of the broadcast that there would be no new game announcements. Instead, Shigeru Miyamoto introduced Japanese actor Fuka Koshiba as a new ambassador for the series, and Nintendo confirmed that 1st November, today, is now Pikmin Day.<\/p>\n<p>Pikmin 4 originally launched on Switch in July 2023. The Switch 2 Edition is one of two big Nintendo releases this month, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/a> remake on 5th November.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Nintendo developer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/shigeru-miyamoto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a> &#8211; who directed classic games such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/super-mario-64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario 64<\/a> and produced The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time &#8211; recently argued that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-shigeru-miyamoto-gen-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rise of generative AI tools won&#8217;t necessarily replace human talent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will launch on 12th November, bundled with a new mode called Dandori&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}