19th April 2005, 8:01 PM
I'm pretty much certain Pokemon takes place on a made up planet that's only got enough similar to Earth that we can actually relate to it a bit. Pikmin though seems pretty clear, thanks to that globe, to be on some far future version of Earth where animals evolved all weird and silly.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)