We're now in January and that means Pokémon Day 2025 is just around the corner. As always, this annual celebration takes place on 27th February and traditionally follows with all sorts of new and exciting announcements.
In fact - it seems there's so much excitement this year that some fans around the world are already talking about it on social media. There's even been a datamine of Pokémon GO recently just to remind everyone the big day is almost here. There'll also seemingly be an event taking place in the popular mobile game to mark the occasion.
Pokémon Presents 2024 was announced on 20th February, so we've still got a month to go potentially until an official update.
During last year's broadcast, some of the announcements included the new mobile game Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket and Pokémon Legends: Z-A - a brand new Legends: Arceus-style game scheduled to launch in 2025. So we're expecting to hear more about this title very soon!
Are you excited about Pokémon Presents this year? Apart from the new Switch title, what else would you like to see from the world of Pokémon? Let us know in the comments.
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I celebrate Pokémon day on February 30th. I dress up like Pikachu and ge to the local market, it is a fun time
If we assume they'll feature Legends: Z-A heavily as a cross-generation launch game, I certainly hope the Switch 2 will have had an official direct by then.
I'm not putting any bets on Z-A being cross-gen honestly. It isn't something Gamefreak's done before, so I doubt they'll do it here. Interested to see what the game is like though- along with what the graphics look like and how it runs.
I don't think I have excitement with upcoming Pokemon games in 2025 as I still have low hype with the franchise despite I have quite a lot of Pokemon games on 3DS, Wii and Switch.
Nexomon games caught my attention and I have more interest with Nexomon games than Pokemon.
While I appreciate the fact that Game Freak didn't rush this game into 2024 to fit the annual pattern, I'm still reserving judgements for when we actually see Legends Z-A in action. At least in terms of graphics. I really loved Arceus, and I plan on replaying it before the sequel, and while the graphics certainly weren't anything worth talking about, they were more than passable. Heck, it certainly ran better than Scarlet and Violet, that's for sure. If I can be blunt, I think people expecting Z-A to be some sort of graphical/cross-gen showcase are going to be disappointed. I do think GF took the criticisms (to an extent) and are going to take more time on getting the game to run better than the previous couple entries. That said, this game is still being designed with the base Switch in mind. It'll be backwards compatible on the new hardware, sure, but that's still something to consider. At best, I expect shorter load times and a higher resolution on Switch 2, but nothing revolutionary. The last game had a dreadful framerate and muddy graphics, I don't really see Z-A being anything that game changing immediately after. Obviously, I'd love to be proven wrong, but as things are I'm just hoping we get a consistent 30 FPS this go around.
What would be funny is if Nintendo decides to reveal the switch's successor on Pokemon Day.
I don't see Legends Z-A being cross-gen, in fact it will probably be the last huge game for the OG Switch.
There has typically been a full Nintendo Direct one or two weeks before Pokémon Presents in February for the last few years. Fingers crossed that reveal is coming then...
Finally we get to see WTF Z-A is about. Crazy that we've gone a full year without hearing a single peep about this game.
I've really grown to detest corporate holidays like this and Mar10 and May the 4th and whatever else.
That said, I think my biggest hope for ZA is that it doesn't actually resemble PLA that much. Liked the game decently enough but I had a lot of issues with it and really did not at all come out of it wanting another one. If it's just PLA in France it'll probably be the first Pokemon game I skip since Gen 3.
@Lizuka wait lol. Out of curiosity. How on earth did you decide to skip gen 3 of all gens?! That is probably the greatest generation. 5 mainline titles and 2 GameCube spinoffs. There was just so much quality content.
@KY502ShinyHunter I kind of just fell out of the series at the time and wasn't interested in checking it out again until Diamond & Pearl. That said at least personally when I have gone back to Gen 3 since then I'm really not fond of it at all. Hoenn's a chore of a region to navigate and not a lot of Pokemon from that generation are really favorites of mine.
Ironically I’m diving into a brand new game of X/Y (specifically X) after a 10 year hiatus 😎
@VoidofLight The difference is that in the past the systems were to different or the graphical jump to high were it didn't make sense to do cross gen
GB to GBA: 8 bit on GB to 32 bit on GBA. They basically would have to remake the game at that point
GBA to DS: 2D on GBA to a 2.5D on DS. Also the DS had two screens unlike the GBA so they would have had to redo the menues
DS to 3DS: 2.5D on DS to 3D on 3DS
3DS to Switch: The Switch has only one screen unlike the 3DS so they would need to redo the menus etc
But the Switch 2 is most likely just a more powerful Switch so just increase the resolution, framerate and maybe better graphic settings and they'd have a next gen version
Pokémon Day, another day of disappointing announcements, probably. I really can't any more with this franchise. I did get Legends Arceus at a hefty discount, so I'll probably dive into that at some point, but I was so heavily disappointed by Scarlet/Violet, that I vowed never to get any Pokémon game Day 1 again. Unless they're willing to actually produce a good game without low balling it.
@Anti-Matter this is me exactly, except for me it’s Cassette Beasts
@mariomaster96 The Switch 2 is going to be backwards compatible with Switch games and I expect we'll see "Next gen patches" that increase frame rate and/or resolution on the Switch 2 (similar to what Playstation is doing).
That to me means that if Legends: Z-A is released for the Switch, then it will automatically be playable on the Switch 2 and likely enhanced for the Switch 2 (Which would qualify as cross platform I suppose)
Any new Pokémon game after Pokémon Legends: Z-A is most likely going to be a Switch 2 exclusive. (Meaning it won't run on the original Switch)
Why? Well did you play Pokémon Scarlet and Violet? They still run like garbage on the Switch. By supporting the Switch in future mainline games they would severely limit themselves what kind of games they can make.
Yes is terms of hardware it's "just a more powerful Switch", but think back, how old is the Switch now? The Tegra X1 is 10 years old. So the Switch 2 is going to be a lot more powerful.
It's not going to be the phone situation where for example iPhone 5,6 and 7 all run the same software but at a slightly different performance.
I am a 100% sure that most Switch 2 titles from the first party studios will be Switch 2 Exclusive, (except the Switch titles that may get next-gen patched for the Switch 2)
I've been saying this for a while now, but I heavily believe the Switch 2 will be revealed before Pokemon Day 2025. Nintendo and the Pokémon Company want their game playable on the new console even if it's cross-gen.
I'd love to hear that they're going to finally make a AAA pokemon game that will be released in 2030 or so!
Not too surprising that we’re getting a Pokémon Presents for Pokémon Day as it’s pretty much tradition at this point. But I’m shocked Niantic let it slip in there. Shocked!
Well, not that shocked…
Fingers crossed we'll finally see more of Legends Z-A - like others here I also doubt it will be cross-gen at least in the classic sense (Game Freak has never done that and Nintendo barely has, the latter is why I doubt that will be the case also for Prime 4 although I'd say it's not as unlikely as Z-A) so it shouldn't depend on the announcement of Switch's successor... although I certainly hope that will happen before Pokémon Day anyway!
I'm only just realizing that there's no release date for Z-A. I thought it was coming out this month until now.
Not bad news though--hopefully it gives them time to iron out the kinks, and to make sure that the next set of mainline Pokemon games for Switch 2 is a lot more polished than we've gotten used to with Game Freak's recent output. A truly beautiful and technically sound Pokemon entry is going to be something to see.
Any news about Z-A would be great. But for me, the original games on NSO would be an amazing addition too. Its a pipedream, but I still hope 🤞
@VoidofLight it wasn’t gamefreak themselves admittedly but Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team both came out at the same time, the former for the GBA and the latter for the DS, and they’re basically the same game
Please fix the battle system, please fix the battle system...
I enjoyed the catching and general Pokemonness of Arceus, but it was so hampered by its garbage-bin story, awkward trainer battles (and that's being generous), and sinfully ugly environments that I'm more than a little worried how the sequel will turn out.
@Axecon Surely it will be. I mean, unless they leave out Pokemon Z-A, which is basically the only thing outside the mobile rubbish that seems like a sure ringer.
Hard to believe we really didn't hear anything at all about Legends Z-A between now and the last Pokemon Day Presents. It really has been a long dry spell!
Legends Z-A release date and Conquest remake, yes (see, "leaking" stuff is easy😎).
Just give me anything new about Legends Z=A. I don't really care if it's gonna be cross-gen or not, just give me something.
Pokémon Legends Z-A is something that I have been looking forward to since its announcement. The long-awaited sequel to the woefully unfinished X&Y. However, the last time I was hyped for a sequel was Tears of the Kingdom, so my expectations have been drastically diminished.
I'll be waiting for Pokémon Day to see whether The Pokémon Company knows what they're doing.
@somnambulance Knowing the Pokemon Company, that would not surprise me.
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