Pokemon accounts 'tease' Ruby and Sapphire - and fans demand Switch ports release

It seems as though a number of official Pokemon social media accounts may have teased Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire releasing on Nintendo Switch - and fans are demanding for the heavily speculated ports to be released.

Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire are two classic Pokemon games which released on GameBoy Advance in 2003 that introduced Gen 3 of Pokemon and the Hoenn region.

There has been heavy speculation about these games being ported to Nintendo Switch, like we saw earlier in the year with Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen, and those flames seem to have been fanned.

That's because as part of a series of posts about World Space Week, the Pokemon UK updates account, along with a number of other country specific official Pokemon accounts, posted a short video - of none other than Rayquaza soaring into outer space.

Rayquaza is one of the legendary Pokemon first encountered in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire and was the cover Pokemon for Pokemon Emerald, the definitive edition of the Hoenn region games.

And in the comments, fans are demanding for the Gen 3 games to release on Nintendo Switch.

One said: "Just put the Hoenn in the bag."

"Either you drop them on the eShop or I'm using my computer," another warned.

One commented: "My bank acc is ready to buy Gen 3 on Switch 🥰🥰🥰"

Another added: "This has to be intentional at this point 💀"

"Please stop with this... And give us Pokemon RSE!!!!" one demanded.

And another said: "Yeah, I'm starting to hate the tease."

This comes after rumours about Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire releasing on Switch recently skyrocketed when an official Pokemon X / Twitter account shared never-before-seen HD gameplay footage of the controlled trainer chasing Mr Briney and Peeko around their house on the outskirts of Petalburg City.

Light88, who has a history of correct Pokemon leaks such as leaking information about the recent Pokemon Pokopia DLC just before Nintendo announced it the same day, 'leaked' the release date for the ports is 8 October.

When the Nintendo Switch ports of Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen released in February, a dataminer found specific mentions of Pokemon Emerald, Sapphire and Ruby in the emulator the Switch uses to run these games.

In August, Shpeshal Nick posted on X / Twitter to say "the ports of Pokemon Ruby / Emerald / Sapphire are planned for late September / October".

To be clear, Nintendo Switch ports of Pokemon Ruby & Sapphirehave not been officially confirmed and remain nothing more than speculation until anything official is announced.

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