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The Kit & Krysta Podcast

What Was the Point of Nintendo's “Close to You” Pikmin Video?

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

The Kit & Krysta Podcast

Technology, Society & Culture, Video Games, Leisure

4.7544 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Hi, the last few days have been a saga but we finally know what Nintendo was teasing with their mysterious baby video Close to You, which was a short featuring Pikmin made by Nintendo Pictures all along...but what was actually the point of all this? Let's discuss! 

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0:00.0

Well, it's been a harrowing 36 hours with Nintendo's mysterious baby, but there's been some updates.

0:12.0

There's some things that happen directly to us.

0:14.5

Oh, my gosh.

0:15.2

We have to talk about it.

0:16.2

We have to talk about it.

0:17.1

Yeah.

0:17.6

I think this strange week-long saga has finally reached its conclusion.

0:22.6

Thank goodness.

0:23.6

And I've been seeing a sense of maybe dissatisfaction with how it all paid off.

0:29.6

And I think it's worth asking the question of like, what was the point of all of this?

0:33.6

Of all of this daily checking in on this baby that's got a pickman. one time it doesn't, one time it does. Like, what was Nintendo trying to achieve with all of this? So we're going to try and figure that out in this video. Unravel the mystery. Yeah. Yes, because it's still a bit confusing. So let's talk about everything that sort of happened throughout this week, it's been a bit of a yeah to your

0:54.8

point like a bit of a saga um so it started out with a very mysterious teaser video with these

1:01.9

invisible entities moving stuff around next to a baby and then that was posted on all of nintendo

1:10.6

very broadly social media channels. Yep, very broadly.

1:13.8

Obviously it was done in a very teaser reform because we had mentioned before that besides

1:20.0

the title close to you, there was like no descriptions, there was no links to something,

1:25.9

there was no sort of indication of what this could be teasing.

1:30.8

Then, 24 hours later, only on Nintendo today. Curiously, only there. Only there. We got the reveal

1:42.0

video where the invisible entities were replaced by

1:45.0

Pickman and that video basically was the exact same video except the

1:50.1

Pikman War were there in one and not in the other. I'm gonna give you a moment

1:54.3

to admit defeat that this was not Rosalina, that this was Pickman and that you

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