I'm kinda half and half about it right now. On one hand, it's Pikmin on 3DS, on the other, it technically isn't. I get "MvDK March of the Mini's" and "Kirby Mass Attack" vibes from it. Not that it's a bad thing, but the direction for this one is really odd considering previous Pikmin games. Along with Myamoto's statement on Pikmin for 3DS
"The truth is we were doing prototype tests of Pikmin for the DS and 3DS but it turned into unit management with only the touch pen and no matter what it just didn’t seem like Pikmin. " I still get bugged by this statement about the touch pen. Is he referring to just moving units with the touchpen? Or is it overall control of units with the touch pen?
Either way I have a bad feeling this might be a flop, much like the flop of Federation Force recently. (It sold 5k units in japan in the first week, which is not a good thing for Metroid in general) But as for both I hope to pick them up sometime and I do hope they're both something I can enjoy playing. Hoping we'll see more info on this one soon.