{"id":659930,"date":"2025-12-29T09:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659930\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:14:14","slug":"pikmin-3-deluxe-nintendo-switch-2-rating-pops-up-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/659930\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikmin 3 Deluxe Nintendo Switch 2 Rating Pops Up Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pikmin 3 Deluxe\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/669da210f13f6\/pikmin-3-deluxe.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pikmin-3-deluxe.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pikmin 3 Deluxe\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n<p>Since the Switch 2 generation got underway, many Nintendo fans have been hoping for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/pikmin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pikmin<\/a> titles to receive a next-generation upgrade. Now, in an interesting development, a Switch 2 rating has surfaced on the European age rating board PEGI for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_3_deluxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This rating was apparently filed by &#8216;Nintendo of Europe SE&#8217; on 28th December 2025 (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/12\/pikmin-3-deluxe-rated-for-switch-2-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thanks, Gematsu<\/a>). It&#8217;s &#8216;PEGI 3&#8217; (the same classification as the Switch game listed), contains &#8220;occasional, very mild violence in a comical or abstract context&#8221; and is suitable for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>The same brief outline of the game is also attached to this rating, but no other significant details have been shared.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In Pikmin 3 Deluxe, players take command of three explorers and a legion of adorable Pikmin in a fight for survival. By employing the unique abilities of these tiny Pikmin creatures, players will solve puzzles, battle dangerous predators and recover food needed to save the explorers&#8217; depleted home planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pikmin 3 Deluxe PEGI\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/51a528e1bc74b\/pikmin-3-deluxe-pegi.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pikmin-3-deluxe-pegi.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"411\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pikmin 3 Deluxe PEGI\"\/><\/a> Image: PEGI<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_3_deluxe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a> made its debut in 2020 and follows the original Wii U entry from 2013. The Switch version of the game received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/pikmin-3-deluxes-new-update-fixes-screen-flicker-issue-when-playing-on-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small update in June of this year<\/a>, improving the gameplay experience on Switch 2, but there has been no upgrade for the title so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pikmin 4<\/a> also received a free content update in November, adding new content and new modes.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has previously released free and paid Switch 2 upgrades for existing Switch titles. This included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/12-free-switch-2-game-upgrades-are-now-live-here-are-the-full-patch-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12 free Switch game updates<\/a> when the new hybrid system launched in June.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in revisiting Pikmin 3 Deluxe on Switch 2? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/pegi.info\/search-pegi?q=pikmin+3+deluxe&amp;op=Search&amp;age%5B%5D=&amp;descriptor%5B%5D=&amp;publisher=&amp;platform%5B%5D=&amp;release_year%5B%5D=&amp;page=1&amp;form_build_id=form-c73DbZDzyFo6cV87bcs5yDKHjc0zotB7N4gNC6BFlgE&amp;form_id=pegi_search_form\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pegi.info\/search-pegi?q=pikmin+3+deluxe&amp;op=Search&amp;age%5B%5D=&amp;descriptor%5B%5D=&amp;publisher=&amp;platform%5B%5D=&amp;release_year%5B%5D=&amp;page=1&amp;form_build_id=form-c73DbZDzyFo6cV87bcs5yDKHjc0zotB7N4gNC6BFlgE&amp;form_id=pegi_search_form\" target=\"_blank\">pegi.info<\/a>, via <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/12\/pikmin-3-deluxe-rated-for-switch-2-in-europe\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/12\/pikmin-3-deluxe-rated-for-switch-2-in-europe\" target=\"_blank\">gematsu.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Since the Switch 2 generation got underway, many Nintendo fans have been hoping for the Pikmin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[299,123,270,21064,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-659930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-nintendo-switch","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-pikmin","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115802096704667704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}