As the Pokémon brand celebrates 30 years, The Pokémon Company group will mark Pokémon Day 2026 with a special Pokémon Presents video presentation on Friday, February 27, at 6am PT / 2pm UK time on the official Pokémon YouTube and Twitch channels. The Pokémon Company group also revealed that Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version will launch on Nintendo Switch following the conclusion of Pokémon Presents for $19.99/£16.99 each.
Originally released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004 as remakes of the 1996 Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green games, Pokémon FireRed Version and Pokémon LeafGreen Version will be available as download-exclusive titles and playable on both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems.
Wish We’d get both Roms physical on a single $40 cartridge. Wish we’d get the other Roms with each generation on a cartridge even though they’d charge more than $40 for other Roms and technically could fit all the Roms on a Single Cartridge.
Biggest Company in the can’t give us physical copies and force you to pay monthly payments to store data for your pokemon on a app that could literally just save the data on console itself.
This really isn’t good enough, what we really need is Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald too. We already had the original red blue yellow, gold silver crystal on the Virtual console, so it would be only right to have R/S/E next 🙂
20$ for a non-enhanced version of Fire Red / Leaf Green when they could’ve very well released it on NSO+ fits right in with TPC in recent times
This, like the NSO plus is pretty pricy im not gonna pay an additional 20 dollars for one gba game, way too much
@Tentri
NSO+ is $50/yr which is not expensive compared to what Xbox and PlayStation are doing with their subscription plus $20 for each is also not expensive considering the physicals are notoriously astronomically expensive.
Plus if you get the “family” pack & have at least 7 people in your group, that’s 10 bucks from each person A YEAR. I still shake my head at people saying Nintendo’s online is expensive when you don’t get that from PlayStation Plus & Xbox Gold (or whatever it’s called now.)
Unfortunately, if Sony & Microsoft ever did add a family tier, it’d most likely be around 100 for base, 150 for Extra, & 200 for premium. If not more.
Very cool news. Looking forward to playing this alongside my 11 year old 😍
Hahaha, Nintendo is sucking money out of poor Pokémon fans, and it will sell millions. Everyone should open their eyes, sell their Nintendo Switch, and buy an Xbox, where Microsoft knows how to love its people. OPEN YOUR EYES, DAMN IT!
But XBOX no have Mario :(
Looking forward to playing these on the Switch.
If it was Nintendo switch online with a yearly subscription, I would have ignored it. I currently have shied, shining pearl and Arceus as digital downloads. Looking forward to playing fire red.
These are being sold in the same way as on 3ds, both consoles sold each language on their own, both consoles rose the prices drastically, so this wasn’t very suprising to me or “a new low” for nintendo, this was just a repeat of what happened on 3ds.
Xbox? Does that still exist?
Otherwise, people are never happy… you offer them something: they complain, you offer them nothing: they also complain…
It’s just pathetic.
Give me Johto and then we’re talking.
Today is an excellent day. After XBCX Switch 2 Edition? Omg…
My hope is they announce the rest of the games are coming throughout the year
$20 for both is better than buying one of them for like x2-x8 times the price of just one of them.
I read that wrong, it’s $20 EA, still that’s a steal if you are buying one of them.
Good for fans. But if you’re not that, just stick with the Let’s GO! Pikachu and Eevee games as they were built for Switch.
Can I get credit for calling the price?
If you look at the small text, they are charging separately for languages again. I didn’t call that but I guess it’s consistent with their releases of the games.