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\n\t\tTo quote Krusty the Clown, \u2018What the hell was that?\u2019 (Nintendo\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

In one of its strangest moves yet, Nintendo<\/a> has posted a random animated short about a baby, with no explanation of what it\u2019s for.<\/p>\n

For better or worse, the inner workings of Nintendo have long been inscrutable. It won\u2019t announce a new 3D Super Mario<\/a> game for the franchise\u2019s 40th anniversary<\/a>, but it will resurrect the justifiably maligned Virtual Boy<\/a> and charge you over \u00a367 for the privilege.<\/p>\n

If you thought Nintendo shadow-dropping a new Fire Emblem mobile game<\/a> in the middle of the night was peak strangeness, then you clearly haven\u2019t seen the company\u2019s newest trailer.<\/p>\n

Uploaded to its Nintendo Today app and other social platforms on Tuesday, the video is titled Close To You, with zero indication of what it\u2019s advertising.<\/p>\n

The short video is a 3D animation centred on a baby that\u2019s left alone in their room by their mother, only for some kind of invisible entity to mess with the toys and steal the baby\u2019s dummy.<\/p>\n

The baby happily chases it around the room, before the mum returns and is thrilled to see her baby learning to walk. And that\u2019s literally it. The animation isn\u2019t cheap; if anything, it looks like a lot of money has gone into making it look as good as possible. But\u2026 to what purpose?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Nintendo must be teasing something important enough to the company for it to spend the money on this trailer, but without any familiar iconography, or even a video description, it just comes across as a random animated short.<\/p>\n

Is Nintendo teasing Pikmin 5?<\/p>\n

Of course, this is the internet, so people have already come to their own conclusions and suspect Nintendo is hinting at something big. The most<\/a> popular<\/a> theory<\/a> is that this is Pikmin related, with some suggesting the music uses leitmotifs heard in the Pikmin games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pikmin don\u2019t appear anywhere in the trailer, although some suspect one can be briefly seen in the background at around the 1:39 mark. Look at the background and you can see something tiny walking under the crib, but it\u2019s far too blurry to make out.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tPikmin fans are turning into Bigfoot truthers (Nintendo\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

Pikmin are famously tiny creatures that pick stuff up, but they\u2019ve never been invisible before\u2026 unless this is a new breed of Pikmin for Pikmin 5. Series producer Takashi Tezuka did suggest a new sequel<\/a> was on the cards though and Pikmin 4<\/a> sold a lot better than previous entries, especially in Japan.<\/p>\n

Some<\/a> fans<\/a> have added that augmented reality game Pikmin Bloom states that Pikmin are invisible to humans, which lines up with the trailer, alhough considering it\u2019s a spin-off, it\u2019s difficult to tell if this is new lore or something that exists to justify why Pikmin only appear in AR on your mobile phone.<\/p>\n

Plus, humans have never appeared in the mainline Pikmin games. There have been theories that the planet Pikmin live on is a post-apocalyptic Earth, and objects like the ones in the baby\u2019s room have appeared in Pikmin 4, but it\u2019s always been left purposefully ambiguous. <\/p>\n

Given the calibre of the animation, which to us does look reminiscent of the work of Illumination (the same animation company Nintendo\u2019s partnered with for the Super Mario Bros. movies), some<\/a> have<\/a> suggested<\/a> it\u2019s hinting at a Pikmin movie. But it\u2019s hard to imagine that being Nintendo\u2019s next port of call after Mario and The Legend Of Zelda.<\/p>\n

The trailer could also have been handled by Nintendo\u2019s own animation studio, Nintendo Pictures, which previously made several Pikmin short movies<\/a> exclusive to the Wii U and 3DS, though they\u2019ve since been re-released on YouTube. Maybe Nintendo\u2019s simply getting back into making those?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Is Nintendo teasing the Super Mario Galaxy movie?<\/p>\n

The other prevalent theory floating around is that this is a secret teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which releases on April 3 next year.<\/p>\n

While there\u2019s nothing to suggest the teaser is set in the Mario universe, some<\/a> believe<\/a> the baby<\/a> is actually the character of Rosalina and what we\u2019re seeing is a glimpse into her backstory, ahead of her appearance in the film.<\/p>\n

Although she\u2019s not formally confirmed, Rosalina is pretty much guaranteed to make an appearance in the movie, considering she debuted in the original Super Mario Galaxy<\/a> game, and there were even hints towards her presence in the first movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the theory seems dependent on the baby having blond hair and wearing blue, just like Rosalina, which feels like a stretch to us. By that logic, this could also be a baby Samus from Metroid.<\/p>\n

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Close to you trailer:- Blonde Girl with hair bits like Rosalina and same eye colours- Has “magic powers” like how Rosalina can levitate- Wears BLUE.- Very Illumination look, and the next Mario Movie is about Mario Galaxy.Connect the dots\u2026 youtu.be\/rsufGY5I8jA\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 sodaruma (@sodaruma.com)<\/a> 2025-10-07T14:07:25.313316Z<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is Nintendo teasing something else?<\/p>\n

We did almost suspect this was hinting at a new Chibi-Robo! game, since that series involves a tiny character doing odd jobs around the house. But that\u2019s extremely unlikely since Nintendo\u2019s never put this much effort into the series before.<\/p>\n

Plus, there hasn\u2019t been a new game in 10 years and aside from re-releasing the original GameCube game for the Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s online library, Nintendo\u2019s shown little interest in revisiting the series.<\/p>\n

Nintendo has never properly announced the secret online game<\/a> it ran playtests for on Switch, but we suspect the two are unrelated. According to datamines<\/a> and people willing to break NDA, the game involved working with other players to farm resources and build planets, with no mention of invisible helpers or babies.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most obvious answer is that this is hinting at something entirely original. Like a Nintendogs style project but about raising babies rather than puppies (Nintenbabies, if you will).<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, it has got people talking, which can only be good news for Nintendo.<\/p>\n

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