Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Have a Release Date, Pokémon Presents Set for July

The Pokémon Company has announced the merchandise day for the highly anticipated Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition: October 16, 2025. Preorders statesman connected June 5.

There’s a caller Pokémon Presents presumption acceptable for July 22 “for the latest quality and updates from the satellite of Pokémon.” The Pokémon Company besides announced the merchandise of brand-new Mega Evolution merchandise, disposable present connected the Pokémon Center.

Players who bargain either the carnal oregon integer mentation of Pokémon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch get the enactment to upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition by buying a $10 upgrade battalion from the Nintendo eShop oregon My Nintendo Store. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition offers improved graphics and framerates.

The screen creation has besides been unveiled. It features the game’s main characters and their spouse Pokémon battling a Mega-Evolved Pokémon astatine nighttime successful Lumiose City.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Pokémon Legends: Z-A is simply a caller frontier for the Pokémon video crippled series, blending an RPG communicative unfolding successful a azygous metropolis with enactment elements and a real-time conflict strategy dissimilar thing seen earlier successful the franchise. Trainers tin look guardant to the opening of a caller escapade successful Lumiose City — 1 woven by radical and Pokémon together!​

Switch 2 Edition container creation for Pokémon Legends: Z-A.

Fans tin look guardant to Mega Evolution–themed products and experiences arsenic portion of a larger solemnisation highlighting fan-favorite Mega-Evolved Pokémon. As portion of this, Pokémon Center volition merchandise caller apparel, accessories, plush and much featuring Mega-Evolved Pokémon passim the year.

Starting today, fans tin cod elephantine pins featuring Mega Charizard X and Mega Charizard Y, arsenic good arsenic store from a capsule postulation of apparel and accessories showcasing Mega Venusaur, Mega Gengar, Mega Lucario and much Mega-Evolved Pokémon.

The Switch mentation of the Pokémon Legends: Z-A container art.

Beginning adjacent month, fans who preorder Pokémon Legends: Z-A astatine Pokémon Center successful the U.S., Canada oregon the U.K. tin person a random Pokémon Sitting Cuties plush featuring Chikorita, Tepig oregon Totodile arsenic a acquisition with a purchase.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A was archetypal announced astatine past year's Pokemon Presents, with a cinematic trailer showing disconnected a futuristic Lumiose City. At the time, we were fixed precise fewer details: conscionable that it would beryllium coming to Nintendo Switch this year, and immoderate airy Pokémon teases. We person since gotten a longer look astatine the crippled successful a Pokemon Direct earlier this year, including seeing galore of the Pokémon that volition beryllium available, a fig of caller characters, and the protagonist moving each implicit the rooftops.

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