Pokemon Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald Nintendo Switch ports release date 'revealed'

Someone understood to be a gaming industry insider has revealed when speculated Pokemon Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald Nintendo Switch ports will release.

Pokemon FireRed / LeafGreen released on Nintendo Switch on Pokemon Day (27 February) and they proved to be a huge hit. Fans have wanted early Pokemon games ported to the latest generations of hardware for a very long time and they quickly became best sellers again.

A dataminer previously discovered specific mentions of Pokemon Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald in the emulator that runs Pokemon FireRed / LeafGreen on Nintendo Switch and it sparked hope online that there could be re-releases of Gen 3.

Now Shpeshal Nick has posted on X / Twitter when those speculated ports could release.

On X / Twitter, Shpeshal Nick said: "Currently, the ports of Pokemon Ruby / Emerald / Sapphire are planned for late September / October."

If this proves to be the case, then these would land around six months after the ports of Pokemon FireRed / LeafGreen released.

Pokemon FireRed / LeafGreen first released in 2004 on GameBoy Advance and were remakes of the original Pokemon games, taking players back to the region of Kanto.

Pokemon Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald is the third generation of Pokemon games which introduced players to a new region of Hoenn, first in 2003 through the releases on Sapphire and Ruby before the release of Emerald in 2005, again all on GameBoy Advance.

Pokemon Sapphire / Ruby / Emerald releasing on Nintendo Switch has not been officially confirmed at the time of writing.

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