All Nine Picross e Games Will Make The Jump From 3DS To Switch Next Year In Picross S+
Each title comes as an additional download
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News Picross S+ announced, bringing all 9 Picross e games to Nintendo Switch (out now!)
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www.nintendolife.com
edit: official announcement
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me when i saw the news
they talked about this in a recent interview, i didn't expect it to happen so soon
they talked about this in a recent interview, i didn't expect it to happen so soon
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Wow, they did it.
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the S games usually get announced in april and/or september and then get released a week later.
So yeah, this announcement is a "hey we're not announcing the next S game BECAUSE here is the plan" type thing
SuperCharlie78
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Why wouldn't they include them?
The gift icon on the right must be the extra 5 puzzles they gave for every Picross e owned (iirc). Though I think they did this only for the first three entries.
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this part from the article
as for the gifts, reading the wiki (yes, there's a picross wiki lol) it seems like they were just 15 puzzles from e, e2 and e3 for having the save files for those games. it wouldn't make sense to have the same system here. maybe the gift here is some extra puzzles unlocked with the save files for the S games.
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The article is... at bare minimum missing some important context for some reason, and as a result it's confusing to me. Almost makes it seem like the writer hasn't actually played many of the Picross 3DS games.
The wiki is sort of right but also missing a key bit of information: The early picross games didn't have mega picross at all (e1, e2) and for the next few, had completely original puzzles (e3,e4,e5), but far fewer than the number that were in later games (e6 onwards) where they were just the same puzzles as in the regular picross mode, but with the different rules.
You're right in saying that you get 15 puzzles from e,e2,e3 for having the save file, but they're all in Mega picross mode, which didn't exist in the games they came from, they've not just dumped the puzzles as is in the new game.
There's also far fewer than 150 +150 Mega puzzles in the earlier games, I think it's only about e5 or e6 that they settled on having 150 of each a game, and only with e6 that they stopped making new puzzles for mega picross and just settled for repeating the 150 puzzles from the regular mode. e1 and e2 have 150 regular but no mega, e3 has 150 total between regular+ mega, for example.
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Another win for Picross Preservation!
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I'll probably pick this up on sale and when e9 is added. Already have the other games (sadly barely touched them).
Utterly amazing how well Jupiter has seemingly done with this series. To think I first started with Picross back on the Game Boy and on a complete whim from Nintendo Power pushing it hard.
Utterly amazing how well Jupiter has seemingly done with this series. To think I first started with Picross back on the Game Boy and on a complete whim from Nintendo Power pushing it hard.
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Something I've noticed is that I don't play Picross nearly as much on my Switch as I did on my 3DS. It was the perfect 15~20 minute game to play in bed at night. I don't feel as comfortable playing with the big OG Switch though. I might need to get a Switch Lite solely for Picross play lol.
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I bought all of these on super sales before the eshop closure. A little bummed they don’t start with e9 content instead of making me buy the first one just to access that. Not sure why it’s not like Capcom arcade stadium where it’s a free to play shell and you buy what you want.
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How often are they going to release the subsequent puzzle packs?
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we don't know yet, jupiter hasn't said anything about this themselves on twitter or their site, all we have is what nintendo life is reporting.
Tye
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This is cool, but are we ever gonna get the puzzles from Pokémon Picross, My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and the two Club Nintendo Picross games brought back, too? And how about Picross DS and its downloadable puzzle packs that are no longer available while we’re at it?
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jupiter owns the rights to these games and are free to port them whenever they want, but the games you mentioned are all either published by nintendo or are based on nintendo IP and based on this recent interview nintendo seems very cold on working with jupiter on more picross projects, other than licensing the picross name to them to use on switch games.
Exclusive: Picross developer Jupiter on nearly 30 years of puzzling prowess
In a rare interview, the studio’s president and managing director explain why it’s still hip to be square…
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Tye
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I know, but it’s not like Jupiter doesn’t already have to go through Nintendo in order to release games using the Picross name (which Nintendo owns), anyway. And aside from the Picross trademark, we know that Jupiter doesn’t even own the entirety of the Picross e/S games, either, because it was recently confirmed that Logiart Grimoire doesn’t feature Mega Picross puzzles because Jupiter doesn’t own the rights to that mode (Nintendo seemingly does); it appears that Jupiter likely doesn’t own the rights to any variation on Picross that they worked on using the Picross name besides the standard nonogram puzzles.jupiter owns the rights to these games and are free to port them whenever they want, but the games you mentioned are all either published by nintendo or are based on nintendo IP and based on this recent interview nintendo seems very cold on working with jupiter on more picross projects, other than licensing the picross name to them to use on switch games.
Exclusive: Picross developer Jupiter on nearly 30 years of puzzling prowess
In a rare interview, the studio’s president and managing director explain why it’s still hip to be square…
Anyway, obviously I’m hoping that Jupiter and Nintendo would allow the puzzles from these games to resurface in some form. Nintendo might not currently have much interest in having their other IPs be used for new Picross games, but maybe it’d be possible to get them added to Picross S+ as DLC? Who knows! I won’t expect it, but it would certainly be nice if it happens. I’m still bummed we never got the Club Nintendo Picross games outside of Japan…
Tye
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I think people are distorting what was reported to make it seem worse than it really is. Nintendo clearly haven’t lost interest in working with Jupiter because they continue to allow them to release Picross games using Nintendo’s trademark, after all. It just seems that the process for making a Picross game specifically utilizing other Nintendo IP is rather strict/limited and/or Nintendo just aren’t too interested in those kind of releases for whatever reason. After all, even the Nintendo-published crossover Picross games that we got on 3DS were exclusively available as Club/My Nintendo rewards, aside from Pokémon Picross which was free-to-start (and handled more by The Pokémon Company than Nintendo). So it seems that Nintendo was never really into the idea of selling these types of Picross games in the first place; it doesn’t seem like much has really changed. If anything, it might just come down to the fact that Nintendo has entirely stopped releasing smaller “free” eShop games as My Nintendo rewards as of the Switch, which was kinda the only way they seemed to want to release these type of Picross games before.
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it's honestly so bizzare that SEGA was so quickly willing to work with Jupiter during the Switch era, yet they're having hangups getting the Nintendo published stuff back.jupiter owns the rights to these games and are free to port them whenever they want, but the games you mentioned are all either published by nintendo or are based on nintendo IP and based on this recent interview nintendo seems very cold on working with jupiter on more picross projects, other than licensing the picross name to them to use on switch games.
Exclusive: Picross developer Jupiter on nearly 30 years of puzzling prowess
In a rare interview, the studio’s president and managing director explain why it’s still hip to be square…
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If this had a physical release I'd grab it immediately just to have it in my collection, but I already own every Picross e game (except for e9) on 3DS. It would be nice to have the whole set on Switch, but this is a "maybe I'll get around to it later" situation for me. Still glad to see these games get re-released though!
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Didn't they say that the next Picross game was coming to new hardware (as in Switch NG)? I don't really play Picross, I know it has an annual release schedule though so is this not counted as Picross 2024?
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i had no clue they reused puzzles between series! that is slightly disappointing even though I've barely gone through two or three of the S games
I've actually wondered before how they produce so many of, especially, the introductory puzzles, but then I remember a 5x5 binary grid alone has like 33.5 million possible states lol. but I suppose the reuse also makes sense since they both have to be balanced for difficulty and create something loosely resembling an image
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these aren't very demanding games, and they'll continue to support the current switch as long as they can. they just said they'll bring the games to the next system as well when it's out.
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I get why anyone would think that with the relationship they have with Nintendo, but Sega has pretty much always been more open to licensing their IPs. Hopefully Nintendo is able to let Jupiter get past the red tape for their anniversary plans.it's honestly so bizzare that SEGA was so quickly willing to work with Jupiter during the Switch era, yet they're having hangups getting the Nintendo published stuff back.
release coming soon?
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And here I look at my Picross 1 on Switch still not finished after all these years 
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Yay! This was one of my “hopefully realistic” guesses for the Direct today.
Very cool, I knew Ape was involved with some of the early titles and didn’t know that it was Nintendo that got everyone together.
Very cool, I knew Ape was involved with some of the early titles and didn’t know that it was Nintendo that got everyone together.
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