Switch 2 broke Pikmin 3 Deluxe with visual glitches and crashes, but Nintendo has swiftly patched it up so you can enjoy the Wii U banger once more

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Pikmin 3 is back at Peakmin status

Pikmin 3 Deluxe key art showing pikmin in a garden
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Nintendo has fixed the issues players were facing when trying to play Pikmin 3 Deluxe on Switch 2.

Despite being what many scholars consider to be a banger, Nintendo hasn't really thrown much of a bone to the Pikmin series on Switch 2. None of the four available Nintendo Switch Pikmin titles were on the list of free updates, nor are we currently planned to get a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition release of Pikmin 4 (despite mouse controls being such an obvious inclusion of the series). In fact, the Nintendo Switch 2 made Pikmin 3 worse thanks to a prevalent screen flickering issue, crashing, and other visual bugs.

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