Nintendo's masterpiece Pikemin 4 went on sale on July 21, and the development team introduced the origin of the game name.

According to CTOnews.com on July 19, Pickmin (PIKMIN) is a real-time strategy video game designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and developed by Nintendo. The first version was released in 2001. The game has won a good reputation for its unique creativity.

Nintendo unveiled its new series Pickmin 4 in September last year and confirmed in February that the game will be available on Switch on July 21 for $59.99 (about 431.70 yuan). In the run-up to the work, Nintendo recently released an interview with the game development team on its website, introducing the origin of the name of the series.

It is reported that during the development of the game by Nintendo, when some programmers calculated the number of small creatures in these games, they were heard by overseas programmers, (CTOnews.com note: use "PIKI" to count, Japanese pronunciation "PIKI" horse), overseas programmers mistakenly thought the game's biological protagonist was "PIKI", thus making a joke, but this misunderstanding finally named the game. Has had a considerable impact.

In the final naming phase, Nintendo programmers remembered the "PIKI event" and felt that the name "PIKI" was similar to the English "Pick Me". Considering that the name had an affinity and conformed to the design of the game, they decided to name the protagonist and game of the game "PICKMIN", which was then extended to the final "PIKMIN".

Shigeru Miyamoto, general manager of Nintendo's game development department, said that "PICKMIN" sounds a bit like Vitamin, and he was not sure if it would work, but it was a success in the end.