Niantic's Pikmin Bloom is Available Now - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 27 October 2021 / 2,063 Views
Niantic and Nintendo have announced the mobile Pikmin game, Pikmin Bloom, will be available today on iOS and Android.
Pikmin Bloom is similar to Pokémon GO with how it is designed to get people to go outside and walk. As you walk you can grow more Pikmin, make flowers bloom, and to log your memories.
View a trailer of the game below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom, an app that brings a little joy to your everyday journeys on foot. Walk to grow more Pikmin, walk to make flowers bloom, and walk to log your memories.
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Cute! i wonder how many people walk that know what pikmin is?
I wonder how many people that go for walks even play mobile games while walking, makes no sense, the reason for walking is to get out there with nature, not to be glued to your phone.
Who cares about this, I just want pikmin 4. Or at least a pikmin 1 and 2 remaster
Tens of millions care, or will soon. This game will be far more popular and make far more profit than any Pikmin game to date. I say this as someone who wishes this wasn't the case.
Hopefully it will ignite interest in the main Pikmin series.
Yes and none of them gamers. Just like pokemon go.
Tens of millions I doubt it either, pikmin is nowhere near mario or pokemon.
Pokemon Go has over a billion downloads. Of course it isn't going to do that, but what I said was tens of millions, which it will easily achieve. Getting tens of millions of players on mobile is easy compared to console.
A billion, no it doesn't, and again Pokemon is at least 100x more popular than pikmin, even tough I'll take pikmin over Pokemon any day.
1) Pokémon Go cumulative downloads
Year Downloads
2016 0.5 billion
2017 0.75 billion
2018 0.8 billion
2019 1 billion
2020 1.1 billion
So not even counting this year, easily over 1 billion downloads.
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/pokemon-go-statistics/
2) Pokemon is NOT 100x more popular than Pikmin lol. It is a lot more popular, but not even close to 100x. Let's look at the last major entries:
Pikmin 3 Delux - 2+ million sold
Pokemon Sword/Shield - Roughly 22 million sold.
So Pokemon is 11x more popular than Pikmin, at least regarding video game sales. Can't really compare shows/movies/collectible cards/etc. since Pikmin hasn't expanded into those fields before.
I agree we need Pikmin 4 and Pikmin 1 & 2 Remaster
I haven't played any mobile game in years, I just don't see the appeal when there's not even proper controls.
