{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c7c8b0747a2046f4402a1eca","clusterId":"c_65735cfd1cef67cf768295ee","slug":"nintendo-names-november-1-pikmin-day-sets-switch-2-demo-for-november-2","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Nintendo Names November 1 Pikmin Day, Sets Switch 2 Demo For November 2","summary":"Nintendo released a video titled \"Pikmin Day Direct\" on its official YouTube channel on October 31, 2026, with Shigeru Miyamoto appearing to announce that November 1 will be Pikmin Day every year. A trial version of \"Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Dandori Challenge for Everyone! Dandori Certification\" will be distributed on November 2, ahead of the full release on November 12. The demo covers the early Sun-Speckled Terrace area of Pikmin 4 and two stages of Dandori Certification, and save data carries over to the main game. A short movie series themed on Pikmin, \"Hello! Pikmin,\" will run one per month on the Nintendo Today! app and other platforms, with two installments arriving in November, on November 1 and another day in the month. The broadcast also covered the Pikmin Bloom smartphone app, including a new Secret Caves activity for collecting treasures that ties into the Switch 2 release and is set to be distributed this winter.","whyItMatters":"Nintendo is tying the Switch 2 edition's demo window, a monthly short movie run and a Pikmin Bloom update to a single date, so the November 1 label carries the series' promotion rather than one product launch.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eMiyamoto explained the date during the broadcast by likening the red, blue and yellow Pikmin, the three colors from the series\u0026#39; 2001 start, to the number 1. The Pikmin Bloom announcements went beyond Secret Caves: a Pikmin Bloom Journey in Kobe event is scheduled for November 21 and 22. Actress Fuka Koshiba appeared as a guest at the end of the video, and Miyamoto said he expects her to help liven up Pikmin going forward. The presentation closed with footage from the Hello! Pikmin shorts.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNintendo\u0026#39;s product page lists an upgrade pass for the Switch 2 edition at 1,000 yen as an online code version, with the packaged release priced at 6,582 yen; both prices are as of the article\u0026#39;s publication. The demo arrives ten days before the November 12 release.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Miyamoto picked November 1 for Pikmin Day by likening the red, blue and yellow Pikmin to the number 1. The date now repeats every year.","twitterPost":"The Switch 2 edition demo lands November 2 and carries save data into the November 12 release. Pikmin Bloom's Secret Caves update follows this winter.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Nintendo used a surprise Pikmin Day Direct to declare November 1 an annual Pikmin Day. The Switch 2 edition of Pikmin 4 gets a save-carrying demo on November 2, ten days before release, and a monthly Hello! 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