see deal Pikmin 3 - Nintendo Wii U $59.99 on Gamestop

Though the game still has no release date, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used his company's latest financial briefing to provide an update on Pikmin 3

"You can play this game only with Wii U GamePad," Miyamoto told Nintendo investors. "If it is hard to imagine what it will be like, maybe you can recall the visuals of the original "Pikmin" for Nintendo GameCube and imagine how you can play it with the smaller but more detailed screen in your hands. The two control sticks of Wii U GamePad will let you play this game more comfortably and, with a TV screen, the gyro sensor inside Wii Remote Plus will further help your gameplay."This method of control appears to come in addition to the arrangement we last saw at E3 2012, using a Wii remote as the primary input. With this scheme, the GamePad was used as a map, able to display the locations of all your Pikmin at once. "The two screens of the TV and Wii U GamePad will let you see what you are doing at any time during your gameplay, which alone is a great evolution for a strategy game," Miyamoto noted, as he described the Remote-based arrangement.Stay tuned to IGN for more on Pikmin 3 - though we're not quite sure when that will be.

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