Nintendo Just Released A Mysterious Animated Short

Most of what Nintendo uploads to its Nintendo Today app is reasonably predictable; deliberation a screenshot aliases trailer for an upcoming crippled aliases nan latest soundtrack being agonisingly drip-fed onto Nintendo Music. But today’s astonishment driblet is much mysterious than usual. If you opened up nan app this morning, you’ll person been met pinch a decidedly Pixar-like animated short, pinch virtually nary context.

Titled "Close to you," nan almost four-minute video focuses connected a babe playing pinch what appears to beryllium an enchanted pacifier. In nan child’s effort to drawback nan flying soother, they commencement to locomotion for what seems to beryllium nan first time, fixed nan guidance of nan mother erstwhile she walks into nan room. The full point is accompanied by immoderate typically pleasant soft music, but ends without Nintendo telling america what immoderate of it means.

Could this beryllium a teaser for nan recently-announced The Super Mario Galaxy Movie? Is nan kid successful nan short a young Rosalina, perhaps? They surely look to person a narration pinch magic. There's besides already immoderate speculation that Nintendo could beryllium teasing a Pikmin film. Anyway, nan short is now each complete Nintendo’s various societal media platforms too, truthful hopefully we’ll find retired much soon. For now, it's a perfectly bully (albeit unexpected) measurement to walk a fewer minutes.