Nintendo strangely dropped a cryptic animated short film that baffled its audience, explaining nothing. The caption “Close to You” is as big of a hint as fans got.
The 3 minute and 54 seconds animated short film is about a baby being teased by a mysterious invisible force, forcing the baby to take its first steps. Since this Nintendo we're talking about, the short film’s positivity and solid animation work oddly reminds us of a Pixar or Illumination film.
What’s more bizarre here is that the short film provides zero information for what players should be expecting apart from unseen poltergeists nudging the baby to keep moving.

This has turned the internet into conspiracy theory mode, creating their own interpretations on what the hell are they seeing. Fans have begun analyzing every inch and frame, zooming in on unsuspecting places to find the culprit behind the moving objects.
The first observation that players got is that this could be a teaser for Nintendo’s next Pikmin game. Given that it’s a game about tiny critters that are invisible to the human eye, this comes as a no-brainer. Another interesting detail fans notice is how its music oddly reminds them of Pikmin’s familiar score, with its serene piano tones and lighthearted atmosphere.
Other theorists, however, threw the Pikmin speculations away in favor of “something completely new.” It might be Nintendo’s upcoming first-party game that has been long rumored to feature “revolutionary” multiplayer gameplay according to feedback from players who tried the playtests.

On the safer side, fans speculate that this is just a teaser trailer for the upcoming sequel to the Super Mario Bros. movie, as it shares a familiar Illumination animation style. Of course, no one really knows what it’s all about yet and everyone is just grasping at straws to make sense of it all. Some fans are just waiting to see the full reveal and hoping they’d come back to this short film and piece together something that would make sense.
There are also rumblings that this could be Nintendo’s teaser for their pivot to animated films, making this short film a hint on what’s to come apart from the Super Mario Bros. movie. It might be something completely original, or it could be just a Pikmin Movie. Who knows?
The comments in the video are turned off, leaving little room for the Nintendo community to speculate. Gaming communities and forums like Reddit, however, are already working on the clock to find out what it all means.
The year has been nothing short of exceptional when it comes to gaming. We’ve had fantastic titles slated for a 2026 release like Insomniac’s Wolverine and Rockstar’s highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6. This could be just Nintendo’s bizarre way of looking ahead into its future titles, and it might be something completely different.
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