Pokémon Presents July 2025: Every Announcement, Full Livestream

Mega Dragonite was basically the only worthwhile part of that entire slog and that could've been a screenshot. No clue why on earth they hyped up this gigantic pile of nothing of a presentation for two months.

I was disappointed there was nothing on mainline Pokemon Game Boy games being added to NSO, although I've seen people suggesting they might add some of them for Pokemon's 30th anniversary next year which would make sense

I downloaded the puzzler on my phone after the video and enjoyed what was available so far. I'll probably get ZA on Switch 2 too, just not right away.

Wooloo eating the apple was the best part of the presents hands down. (only joking)

Z-A looks like it's Scarlet/Violet all over again, not much to get excited about on Switch 2. I'll pass.

Judging by the sheer toxicity of the comment section of the video, I kinda think the fan base deserves every disappointment... talk about entitlement, impatience, and juvenile aggression.

Pokemon Champions is exactly what I've wanted them to make for years, super excited.

Legends Z-A continues to impress, along with things like Concierge, Champions, and Tales, but man, this easily could've been an email or something. It's obvious that they're saving the big guns for February with the anniversary and all, so I know I should've known better to expect a bit more, but still...

I thought it was a great presentation all in all. The DJ Pikachu music was great (please release an album or something Pokemon Company). Pokemon Concierge is a wonderful little gem of a show, so Im looking forward to that. New raid battles in scarlet/violet offer a good opportunity to get back into them after the switch 2 update. Pokemon Friends is cute so far. It’s nice to just be able to buy a Pokemon puzzle game without micro transactions (even if the DLCs are an additional cost). Great trailer for Legends ZA. I don’t really have any big reason to complain. I wanted to see some older games come to NSO and some OSTs to come to Nintendo Music, but I can wait.

The pre-show with DJ Pikachu was really cool, and I'll give them points for that. But the presentation was so incredibly lackluster for me, there were zero things shown that interested me.

I went in with zero expectations and somehow still came out disappointed lol.

But hey, at least my money is saved now, since I won't have to buy any Pokémon games now!

9 years in and Pokemon Go is just as fun as ever!

As a casual pokemon player it looks like there are a number of nice things in this showing. Japan needs to quit with the theme parks. I can’t afford it!!! cries in brokie

@Suketoudara 40th? I’m not that old!

@lyle_catcliffe It's the 30th

@Lizuka My thoughts exactly. They should've just dropped a new trailer in a Nintendo Ditect and been done with it. A whole Presents for Mega Dragonite and some app games was rude.

Eurgh it feels like Pokemon is in such a hole at the moment. When you consider how enormously successful the Switch era has been, what on earth went wrong with Pokemon during this time?

Also, as others have said, it would be such a simple win for them to announce a couple of Pokemon games for the NSO service. But they can't even manage this.

Absolute shambles. Screams of complacency to be honest with you.

Shiny Sacred Treasures. Eternatus finally in Go. More Concierge. A lot to look forward to in this presentation in my opinion.

If one only cared about new announcements from the main line console games, however...

Heck yeah Legends Z-A looks smooth! Both in framerate and the fact that the buildings are all flat-textured boxes. C'mon, guys, can you put at least some effort into the environmental design?

@Fazermint Not wanting the games to look and run like arse is entitlement now?

didn't even reach a level high enough to call disappointment. was just nothing

@lyle_catcliffe Oops, typo, haha

Super underwhelming imo. Basically the only new thing about legends za (which is what most people are here for) was mega dragonite.

should have just been twitter announcements didn't need to be a digital presentation

I’m really going to just expect nothing for Pokemon Presents going forward, even for the next one on the 30th anniversary. The strangest thing is why they felt the need to announce this presents 2 months in advance.

For those asking about GB and GBA classics at NSO, I have a feeling they are saving it for next year since the next one, as is known and mentioned, is the 30th anniversary of Pokémon and therefore, for the surprises they want to give us that year, possibly that is why they have remained somewhat "silent" with the news, but well, that is my opinion.

I'm just not into the new Legends game, I've no idea what it is. I think it will be spectacular for other people though!!

Since Farfetched is my face I can't wait to see that Aardmannseries!! 🥰

Pokemon Presents... The livestream that could have been, should have been, an email.

@SakuraHaruka
I honestly wouldn’t get my hopes up. A lot of us were so sure we will get Metroid Prime 2 and 3 HD before Prime 4 and nothing was announced, even during Prime 2’s 20th anniversary last November. Final Fantasy 9’s 25th anniversary came and went with no remake announcement that so many of us were hoping to get. Zelda Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD never came on Switch either. I would be pleasantly surprised but not counting on it.

@RazzBerryPie ya think?

I went to the EShop and Pokémon Friends is definitely not a free to play game it's £7.99 and if you want the combo bundle it's £33.99
That's not on my must buy list.

Great, Im buying pokemon Switch 2 when it comes out! AZ might be a spinoff but it's gonna be great!

Those Pokemon championships could be organized in various locations, right now they are very local

That was frankly easily the most boring announcement video I think I've every watched.

Where's the option for none of these? What an underwhelming Presents. 5 months since the last one, 3 months to release, and announced over a month ago, and all they could muster up to show us for Z-A is 1 new Mega and a few storyline tidbits? WTF are you doing Game Freak? I'm very concerned about Z-A now. It's looking like such a nothingburger game that's going to feel like $60+ DLC of SV rather than a full game. Only spans one city instead of the full region, map only looks as big as Kitakami or the Terrarium, minimal content and side modes so far, almost no new Pokemon/forms so far, they spent 2 or 3 years on THIS?

@Razzy That's not what I was referring to, but you're welcome to misrepresent my comment and add your own bs.

Overall, it was a nice Presents! Mega Dragonite wasn't really a surprise because of leaks, but it still looks cool! I'll definitely play Pokémon Friends in the near future! Pokémon Concierge and that Aardman thing look wonderful as well, and I'll certainly watch them!

Just another lackluster Pokémon presentation. Mainly those stupid mobile phone gimmicks with no real substance. It seems like that’s all Pokémon is these days: a gimmick. It’s either a way to make a quick dime off of cheap Chinese mobile games that otherwise wouldn’t have sold or for scalpers to buy cards. The upcoming Pokémon Legends is the only thing that seems to be half way decent and it took completely new hardware to make their last gen game even playable in the first place. They should really re-evaluate the Pokémon brand, but they won’t because all this Nintendo management cares about is making those quick bucks no matter what shortcuts they take.

@Don Because oh look! A new mobile game!

Remember when we used to get spin-offs that weren't mobile games? Good times.

@ParrakerriRush I don't think you were joking, that WAS the best part of the whole thing. That and felt furret.

Everyone calls Raikou, Entei, and Suicune the legendary dogs, but they're cats surely? I mean, look at them.

I am not surprised at how bad this Presents was. There hasn't been a decent Presents in years. It all hinges on next year's 30th anniversary, if that Presents is a dud then for me the Pokemon series is dead. No excuse not to go full force and give the fans what they have been asking for

@Kirbyo Nah, I found the best part was with the giant ship and Lapras cause it looks like it was gonna be a horror game.

Mobile gaming destroyed this franchise 😞

Terrible showing yet again, which made me want to cancel my preorder

Everyone is so mean to the new Pokemon Presents. ToT
It looks like I'm the only one who enjoyed it.
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@Suketoudara They are never happening, it might be Gen 1 if we are lucky. I'm pretty sure it's a Game Freak edict, not a Nintendo one.

@Markatron84 Legendary Beasts is the correct term, as while they're mostly based on big cats, they do have canine elements to their designs.

Like always it's just a bunch of nothing when it comes to this franchise. Other then the garbage stuffs, there's really nothing new here.

Was hoping for more classic games for NSO. Also would really like the more of the cartoon/anime released on Blu-Ray. Maybe that's more with Viz.

@jorel262, heck yes! I personally like Blu-Ray better than DVD, but if there aren't any Pokémon Blu-Rays, it will have to be the DVDs for me at some point, because I want to own the entire series physical at some point down the line. I'm hoping that Horizons will be on DVD (or even better, Blu-Ray) at some point, since that's one of my favorite Pokémon series!

@ShieldHero DVD is better than nothing. Just don't understand why they don't do Blu-Ray for anime made to be in HD.

Alright, when is the next Direct happening to cure the disappointment of the Presents. This Presents was horrible

@Serpenterror The merchandising machine still moves healthily apace, all is right with the world.