Forum - View topicNEWS: Pokémon FireRed, LeafGreen Games Launch on Switch on February 27
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FireChick
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YEEEEEEEEEEES LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Buying them day one!!! I still have my GBA copies of the games from when I first bought them, but I'm so happy to be able to get them on Switch too!! I wonder why they didn't put out the other GBA games, like Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald too? Maybe they're doing them later? Or Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal as well? Eh, who knows? Game Freak is weird like that. I already have the GBC games on both my 3DSes, so if they don't get added to the Switch, it's no big loss for me.
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enurtsol
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Xenoblade Chronicles X for the Switch 2 too. Playstation closes yet another studio just as Nintendo continues to release more games
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LinkTSwordmaster
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Probably because they want to test the waters with the price they're listed at and see if they can push you to spend $35 when Heart Gold/Soul Silver gets teased. They could have thrown these up as NSO titles and they would have likely had online multiplayer for it. I wonder if the people I saw applauding Bomberman & Goemon for being the bare minimum from Konami will say the the same about $20 for a digital-only Pokemon release. And realistically what they're actually charging for this is $40 because if you want all of the Pokemon, either version is not feature-complete. I'll crap on Capcom any day of the week for ruining the entirety of their library with DRM garbage, but those Battle Network Collections are probably some of the most value-rich collections of GBA-era game titles on the market (or the Nintendo in general right now). Extra - seems they have a $127 CE box in Japan with a download code in it.... hah! |
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matt78
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Looking forward to this. I never bought a GBA so I've never played these. What was added to set them apart from Red and Blue?
Curious what other surprised the Pokemon Presents has in store for us. I'm assuming Gen X gets announced but I wonder what else is in store for us. |
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JustMonika
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Just announced yesterday! https://www.gematsu.com/2026/02/xenoblade-chronicles-x-definitive-edition-nintendo-switch-2-edition-announced-now-available |
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TsukasaElkKite
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LET’S GOOOOOOO
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Alphael
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"More games" being ports of a 21 year old game and a 11 year old game respectively. 
The idea of paying 20 dollars for a barebones ROM release that should be on NSO GBA service as part of the online subscription is not appealing especially in the era where there's hundreds of freely available romhacks that add tons of features and content in one of if not the most prolific romhacking scenes out there. At least the physical edition has some collectors/display value with the case and Pokeballs so I can see getting that but otherwise it's an easy pass. |
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Moses34
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That price is crazy considering this is a rom they most likely got off google if that "limited time" Mario collection from a few years back is anything to go by.
They didn't even bother putting a language selection in, with the excuse that it's to "keep it like the original" while also saying this is the "ultimate version of Red and Green" on the FAQ. Then people wonder why TPC gets away with less than zero effort on the games... |
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Aleximonious
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I find it wild that the store items are language specific for this and that there was nothing they could do on either the emulation layer or the e-shop layer to fix this
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Tenbyakugon
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Unfortunately, it just isn’t that deep (but I wish it were). This has nothing to do with their wanting to release the games on virtual console, it has everything to do with this being the 30th anniversary of the original release of the games for which LGFR are remakes. That’s literally it. They’ve done nothing for rereleasing old Pokemon games since Virtual Console died beside having Pokemon Colosseum on NS2O.
I saw a graphic yesterday of how Nintendo had released 9 new Mario games between 2007 and 2017 but has only released ONE new one since 2017 (Super Mario Wonder, all other “releases” since have been ports!). |
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AiddonValentine
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Okay, that graphic must have been seriously nitpicky in terms of what counts as a "Mario game" considering there is no way that's true |
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Tenbyakugon
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Just think about it — Name one other new Mario game since Nintendo Switch was released. |
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FilthyCasual
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Mario & Luigi: Brothership |
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AiddonValentine
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-Breathes in deep- Mario Maker 2, Mario Golf: Super Rush, Mario Strikers: Battle League, Paper Mario: The Origami King, Super Mario Party, Mario Party Superstars, Super Mario Party Jamboree, Mario Bros Wonder, Mario and Luigi: Brothership, Mario Kart World, and Mario Tennis Fever. And this is me leaving out stuff like Luigi's Mansion 3, Princess Peach: Showtime, the Warioware games as well as the various remakes of titles like Super Mario RPG. The only way "there have been no new Mario games!" works is if you limit it to the 2D and 3D platformers and Mario is way more than that. But getting off topic here |
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EmeraldSaucer
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Them quietly getting rid of the talk of Home compatibility (the one big selling point, that you'd no longer have to go through all the hoops to get a Gen 3 mon into Gen 9) makes the $20 price point all the more ridiculous
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