Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen Launches February 27 for Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 February 2026 / 6,899 Views
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company will be launching Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen for the Nintendo Switch via the eShop on February 27 for $19.99 each. Pre-orders are now open.
Here is the eShop links for Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen.
View the announcement trailer below:
Read details on the games below:
Pokemon FireRed Version
Set off on a grand adventure to become the Pokemon League Champion-now on Nintendo Switch!
Celebrate 30 years of Pokemon with this Nintendo Switch version of the Pokemon FireRed Version game originally released on the Game Boy Advance system! Explore the Kanto region, discover wild Pokemon around every corner, and aim to complete your Pokedex as you battle your way to success. Earn badges as you develop winning strategies to use against each experienced Gym Leader, and uncover amazing secrets in your quest to be the best Trainer.
This digital exclusive contains the Sevii islands, where even more Pokemon await. You can also visit the Pokemon Wireless Club to trade, battle, and chat with other players via local wireless!
Support for Pokemon HOME is coming soon.
You’ll be able to bring the Pokemon you catch and train to the place where all Pokemon gather-support for Pokemon HOME is coming to Pokemon FireRed Version!
Pokemon LeafGreen Version
Set off on a grand adventure to become the Pokemon League Champion-now on Nintendo Switch!
Celebrate 30 years of Pokemon with this Nintendo Switch version of the Pokemon LeafGreen Version game originally released on the Game Boy Advance system! Explore the Kanto region, discover wild Pokemon around every corner, and aim to complete your Pokedex as you battle your way to success. Earn badges as you develop winning strategies to use against each experienced Gym Leader, and uncover amazing secrets in your quest to be the best Trainer.
This digital exclusive contains the Sevii islands, where even more Pokemon await. You can also visit the Pokemon Wireless Club to trade, battle, and chat with other players via local wireless!
Support for Pokemon HOME is coming soon.
You’ll be able to bring the Pokemon you catch and train to the place where all Pokemon gather-support for Pokemon HOME is coming to Pokemon LeafGreen Version!
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I've heard people complain for YEARS about games not being available à la carte...
Then literally complain when its the opposite lmao
These games cost $30-40 when they originally released ($51-65 today with inflation)...
Which now go for $100-200 on eBay
I'm more than happy to buy old GBA I loved games for $20
For everyone else, there's the seven seas
ARRRR!
Gba games went for sale for 8 dollars on wii u, using the exucse of "at least its not 40 dollars" isn't a real argument lmfao
"at least its not 40 dollars" wasn't really the argument but take it however you want
After 8 years of BAD Pokémon games (PLA being the exception) I'm happy to revisit a game I actually like for the price of a single fast food meal lol
Exactly! Geez... People will complain no matter what. It's so annoying. And as for your statement about bad Pokémon games in the last 8 years, I would also include PLA, or, what I like to call, the catching okémon simulator game.
Anyways, I won't buy these games on Switch as I already had their GBA cartridges
I don't think it's really that. It's that people see all these other games right there on NSO and feel ripped off. I think that's where the underlying angst is.
Yeah these games at $20 is crazy sauce. Virtual Console games were overpriced back in the day, and VC games were way cheaper than this lol.
If Nintendo were still a consumer friendly company they'd be putting this on NSO service AND releasing them for purchase for under $10. I muuuuch prefer NSO over having to buy overpriced individual old nintendo games, but some people like to spend the extra money to have them permanently, and so Nintendo should be offering them in both ways, it'd be a win-win for them and Switch1/2 owners. But instead they release these as buy-only and at $20 lol
Lol, no. Player's Choice versions of FireRed/Leafgreen were $20 at Wal-Mart for years and years.
Pretty obvious I'm referring to launch MSRP...
Nearly every physical game spends more time on the self at a discounted price than it does at its launch price so I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here
I don't think this was your intent, but let's be a little careful about how we talk about piracy.
20 dollars each for a digital version of a bare-bones port of a GBA game is crazy. One of the most egregious cash-grabs I've ever seen, even by Pokémon standards.
It does not surprise me they pulled this since they have been completely unwilling to release flagship Pokémon games on NSO.
If DS games come to NSO (they find a way to make DS work on Switch 2), they'll probably charge $19.99 or even $29.99 for the Gen 2 Remakes instead of just including them on NSO.
29.99 for what are arguably the best games (HGSS) in the entire series is fine by me
Welp, there's always something to complain about lol
I am being dead serious when I say that if you buy Fire Red or Leaf Green, you will be buying a game that is VASTLY superior to every main line Pokémon game on the Switch, for 1/3 of their price.
Exactly
That's what I've been saying
Not included in the subscription?
So people pay for a premium subscription to have access to games from those systems, but when the biggest franchise comes it's not included?
I'm in agreement with the user above, it needs to be both. If you wanna keep it as a license, but not taking away from people paying the premium subs that includes that system.
Greedy Nintendo at it again, they will continue to do this bullshit until y'all (special ones) boycott them....
Man i'm not going to spend 20 dollars on a 20 year version of a bottom 3 generation, but if thats what you want to do, then more power to you
Never played the remakes. Will snag Leaf Green i guess.
why would I spend 20 box instead of emu§à:^dp
support the dev?
How many original devs are there left anymore, and even if there are, are they going to see any money from this? I don't really think they are. This is supporting the publisher, not the developers.
fair enough.
Support old and "poor" Nintendo! they need your money...
Cool, I was going to buy the original. Probably still will to be honest.
Nintendo has lost all sense of reality with their pricing this gen.
I think 20 dollars is fine. Real lame that you don't get both of them in one purchase. The lack of emulation features (especially ones that already exist on NSO) is also quite lame. I think the only people caring about the legitimacy of the pokemon acquired for competitive play are TPC.
This will be a completely fine way to play them imho. They're just very clearly kind of barebones.
Mess
I love Nintendo but this is bullsh1t
Nice! Can revisit Kanto on the Switch, curious what it's gonna be like docked. With this, Gen 10 and Pokopia, things are looking pretty nice!
I mean... they're really great games and in a way it's cool that they're available as their own thing rather than as part of the subscription, but... if they were gonna charge for them couldn't they at least have released a bunch of the old games simultanously so people could get the one they want? I would probably buy Yellow to be honest since I don't own that, but I've already caught them all in FireRed. If they could somehow have done gen 1-3 with functional trading and physical versions would honestly have been kind of amazing.
Japan is getting a physical bundle of 2 but nintendo is in a fuck everyone else phase right now (switch 2 pricing in japan vs not japan) so what can we really expect from them sadly
Some people are suggesting the games are not available on NSO because the multiple save and rewind features would allow players to easily duplicate Pokemon, thus making Pokemon Home compatibility a potential mess with exploits.
Should've really been $10 each.
Also should definitely be part of the GBA lineup for NSO, so people pay for it but one the biggest games come around they are not included? Insane.
So much for the “bring back Virtual Console” crowd
