Yay! I can't wait.. Some of my trust in Nintendo is restored! The laughs are a strange reaction too.. I must agree.

@ Seanus

I came in second if that means anything >.>

This should work great with the Wiimote.

That is seriously wonderful news!

"Don't forget a new 2D Metroid!"

Hell, while we're at it, Megaman 10-20, released every two months on WiiWare. After that, Capcom starts releasing, in the best of modern sprite graphics, PROTOMAN GAMES!

WOOOT!

I really hate that Nintendo just skipped over a lot of this stuff during their press conference. Why couldn't they have just mentioned this during their presentation? Just throw up a screen with the Pikmin 3 logo and confirm it's being worked on. I'm REALLY glad to hear this, and bits of info like this could have made their conference somewhat less lackluster. But I guess if he danced around the question a bit they're holding off a big announcement for something later.

Excellent, glad to hear that he confirmed it.

Nintendo, I'm really glad that you are still the company that made the Gamecube but please could you show it off a little more? We should've have to specifically ask for stuff like this.

Stop playing to the press basically. None of the grannies or soccer moms you assume the Wii's primary audience to be are tracking the E3 coverage as obsessively as your core fanbase are.

@Heretic
I actually thought the controls in Okami were very good, but well, whatever.

I'm happy as fuck to know about this, i just don't understand why he didnt mention it at the conference.
If he had talked about this, Madworld and the other third party titles coming out, like Mushroom and The Conduit, and more about the "Zelda & Mario teams are working", the conference would have been so much better.

I think they found it funny because ...

[7:36 PDT The next questioner asks about Nintendo's commitment to core titles, and asks if Miyamoto is still interested in making another Pikmin, something he's mentioned in the past.

7:36 PDT Eguchi asks what a "core user" is supposed to be. His own definition is someone who likes games, whatever they like to play. That's who he makes games for, and he says all games regardless of genre have the potential to appeal to the core, and the people who play his games are his core users.

7:37 PDT Miyamoto stands up and starts to leave the stage, which draws laughs. After sitting back down, he gets to the Pikmin question. He talks about sitting as close as possible to his staffers, some who worked on Zelda and Pikmin. He refers to Eguchi's answer and says "core games" is just as mercurial a term as "core gamers," then says they continue investigating all types of games.

7:37 PDT "So when it's time to announce such a title, I'll announce it. So please look forward to it."

7:38 PDT He adds, "We're making Pikmin."]

A minute after he gave a typical PR "when it's done," he just blurts out "OH YEAH WE MAKIN PIKMANS!"

This is my happy face.

We’re making Pikmin.
saying that would have saved their whole pressconference :-D

So where the fuck was this during the conference? Bastards.

I ran and danced around with my shirt off upon hearing this news, I can assume you did the same Chad?
I don't think Miyamoto showed it off is probably because they may have just started work on it, had he started a couple months earlier we could of had a trailer and the conference would have been better received.
Non-Pikmin related question: Was I the only one hoping they would have shown off Sam & Max when they were talking about third party support? I genuinely thought they would show it, it seems like something Miyamoto would enjoy in my opinion.
Back to running around without a shirt!

I knew it!

Oh rapture! Oh joy! Oh.....I need to change my pants, now :(

PIKMIN! PIKMIIIIIIIN!
I really don't understand what happened during the press conference. Perhaps it was too frightening for casual players to have any of the big Nintendo franchises mentioned.

It's interesting how straight forward Miyamoto is with revealing Pikmin 3.

It needs to have the following features: Classic Controller support, Online Play (cooperative and competitive), at least two new types of Pikmin, and the ability to do this:

I told people that Nintendo wouldn't disappoint at E3. The press conference is always just bullshit and bravado. You might get a "Halo IV in 6 years" announcement but you get a lot of the real meat later on. Then again, I'm just looking for release date info/North American release confirmation on a few games as opposed to more announcements since I'm already way out of affordable range for the games I want.