This morning, Nintendo posted a four-minute animated video of a baby chasing their pacifier around as it, as if by magic, floats around their room. The short is called “Close to You,” and the video was posted to YouTube, the Nintendo Today app, and other social media with zero explanation, and with comments turned off so people can’t theory-craft right under it. At a glance, it doesn’t seem to have any connection to Nintendo’s existing properties. However, people are speculating that it could be anything from a teaser for the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie to something related to Pikmin. As fans scramble and comb through every frame, the rest of us are just making jokes.
Some folks are apparently annoyed that Nintendo posted this without context, while others are appreciating the short for its quality animation. Somewhere in the middle, we have shitposts, and those are the real gold, the dopamine hits that make you breathe out of your nose a little harder. Yeah, it could be a short hinting at Peach’s origin story in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, or it could be a really expensive lead-in to Pikmin 5. Hell, it could even be a tease for some kind of young children’s game or series the company is working on. But until we know for sure, we have the posts.
https://t.co/eVEU834ieo pic.twitter.com/S0IJYhvgO2
— bONGO (@wariocolosseum) October 7, 2025
If you realized this is about Pikmin on your own from the music you are my friend, everyone else is a fraud https://t.co/dvfVDx6c2V
— PJiggles (@PJiggles_) October 7, 2025
I hope Nintendo never elaborates on this and no one in the company ever addresses it even existing. https://t.co/g39aVVkmyZ
— UltiMiku (Top 10) (@UltimaShadowX) October 7, 2025
I speak on behalf of everyone when I say we want Close to You Baby in Smash
— brndn (@brndnxvi) October 7, 2025
Invisible Pikmin confirmed for Pikmin 5. Baby confirmed for Smash. Close to You theme confirmed for Nintendo Music. https://t.co/UcsBmCDN5Z pic.twitter.com/oeB4bmSJO9
— Keri (@_kerisan) October 7, 2025
In all seriousness, this short may be a project by Nintendo Pictures, the animation studio the Mario company acquired back in 2022. Though it shares some similarities with the animation style of 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the video doesn’t have any credits for Illumination Studios, which made the blockbuster animated film. In fact, the video notably has no credits, which would be par for the course for Nintendo, which has historically obfuscated the specifics of who works on its projects. The video ends with a Nintendo logo, which makes it seem like the company just wants you to view it as having been willed into existence by Mario himself, rather than made by individual animators, composers, and actors. Whatever the case, hopefully Nintendo reveals what this is all about soon.
