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It was back at E3 2008 when Nintendo confirmed that they were working on a Pikmin for the Wii.

In fact it was Shigeru Miyamoto who revealed the good news at Nintendo’s Developer Roundtable with the words, “We’re making Pikmin.”

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During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters in Kyoto, Japan on Tuesday, a few choice pieces of information emerged regarding possible future directions for star designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s games.

They may seem like throwaway comments… and they probably are, but Miyamoto has a habit of telegraphing what games he’s working on based on the discussion of his hobbies: his interest in gardening lead to the creation of Pikmin. The addition of a dog to the Miyamoto household produced Nintendogs. And when the legendary game developer became obsessed with measuring his waist and weighing himself, Wii Fit was born.

More recently, Miyamoto casually mentioned that he found cats interesting. Lo and behold, Nintendogs + Cats was just announced at E3 2010.

You see where I’m going with this.

So when Miyamoto talks about his hobbies and extra curricular activities, gamers, investors, current shareholders and even other game designers had better take note.

What’s Miyamoto been up to lately?

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Many Nintendo fans were still yearning for new games announcements following Nintendo’s media briefing at E3 earlier this week.

Many averted their eyes to Nintendo’s 2008 E3 Developer Roundtable held yesterday, hoping for the publisher to throw them any scraps of new information and perhaps reveal a new game in the progress.

Instead of revealing Super Smash Bros. Brawl at the media briefing at E3 in 2006, Nintendo chose to reveal the latest installment in the popular series at that year’s Developers Roundtable.

Attendees of the conference saw a demo of Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Sports Resort, hosted by Katsuya Eguchi. He also discussed the Wii MotionPlus before Shigeru Miyamoto took centre stage playing Yankee Doodle with Wii Music.

Well, it looks like the wait was worth it because Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Nintendo is making a Pikmin game during the roundtable. In fact his exact words were “We’re making Pikmin.”

Eguchi and Miyamoto also addressed a question about Nintendo’s commitment to core games. Eguchi believes that anyone will enjoy Nintendo’s latest games and that he thinks a core gamer is someone who enjoys games, regardless of genre.