Heads-up, Pokemon fam. February 27 is Pokemon Day, because February 27, 1995, saw the Japanese launch of the very first games in what has become one of the world’s leading franchises. As such, it’s always a special day, and frequently marks the occasion with a livestream advertising event—a Nintendo Direct with a very direct purpose, if you will—in which fans are welcome to either be pleasantly surprised, or complain on the internet that Pokemon is officially dead.
Thanks to an apparent leak, we now know that February 27, 2026, will… continue the trend. Pokemon Presents, which is the name of this particular series of gaming-related unveilings, will indeed spring up right at the tail end of the month. Given this is Pokemon’s 30th anniversary, folks are expecting something of a blowout, and while I always caution people not to put too much weight on anniversaries, it’s goshdarned likely as heck that the Switch 2 is getting its first mainline games this year. So, yeah. Maybe put weight on it this time.
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The alleged scoop comes courtesy of the Pokemon Masters EX mobile gacha game, specifically its Brazilian/Portuguese version. Vida de Treinedor posted their findings on Twitter, and while you can click that link for the tweet, I’ve taken the liberty of doing what others have doubtless already done in spades: translated their statement to English via DeepL.
Thanks to the #PokemonMasters datamine, we know the time of the Presents: 11 a.m. on February 27.
“It’s curious that the characters appearing on the banner representing Kanto are not Red and Blue, but rather the protagonists of LetsGo. Could we be getting an NS2 Edition re-release?”
I think they’re maybe reading a bit much into things, but hey, who knows. Either way, the news quickly made its way to Reddit:
As you can see via both the tweet and the Reddit thread, the Pokemon Masters EX tidbit cites Pokemon Presents’ air time as 11 am Brazilian time. Brazil is two hours ahead of EST, for the record, so that translates to 9 am EST/6 am PST/2 pm GMT. And plenty of other conversions that I won’t eat up a ton of space in this article citing one-by-one, but know that I see you, and you matter, too.
What will we get at Pokemon Presents? Maybe a lot! Gen 10 reveals feel like a safe bet, but I guess there’s a slim chance they’ll hold off on that a bit. Would be odd, but not completely unprecedented. Probably a ton of stuff that many of us won’t care about, but they’ll be there for a reason, because it’s not always about us. Nifty higher-budget and premium-priced spinoffs? Ehhh, perhaps. I’ve given up hope on seeing that more than a couple of times per generation, but the 30th year would be a lovely time for it.
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Stick with Switch 2 moving forward.
