So yeah after looking through some forum pages I didn't really see anything Pikmin related.
So here is a topic about it.
Converse.
A little conversation starter is that this guy I found on youtube a few years ago actually helped me keep up with Pikmin 3 news and speculations of that time period (cause seriously I was hyped for that game's announcement for 4 years.)
Here was his information he gathered in a nintendo direct:
(this is pretty long so I suggest skipping the actual footage and going straight to the speculations, he has an annotation for it.)
(just realized this but this is completely obsolete since the game already came out and you should go get it whoever is reading this.)