{"id":378666,"date":"2026-09-22T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=378666"},"modified":"2026-09-22T05:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T12:08:10","slug":"two-of-pokemons-most-beloved-games-could-be-getting-a-port-very-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/two-of-pokemons-most-beloved-games-could-be-getting-a-port-very-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s most beloved games could be getting a port very soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rumors have been circulating for a while that Pok\u00e9mon Ruby and Sapphire could come to Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. <strong>Until now, they were only rumors based solely on how much people wanted to believe them, now we have a concrete reason to believe there could be some truth to them<\/strong>. Because an official Pok\u00e9mon account has posted some images that don&#8217;t match anything we&#8217;ve seen before. And that could very well explain all those rumors.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Pok\u00e9mon that seems to be in the works<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pok\u00e9mon Times account on X, the social network formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, has posted a video of Pok\u00e9mon Ruby and Sapphire. What&#8217;s peculiar about this is that Pok\u00e9mon Times describes itself as an official account for information related to Pok\u00e9mon and, in particular, to Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia, <strong>and and the image quality, according to fans, doesn&#8217;t match that of the Game Boy Advance games<\/strong>. It shows a level of detail far superior to that of the original games.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon GO\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/e6290d2a-96d0-11e6-869d-00163ec9f5fa\/3543993417\/pokemon-go-icon.webp\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-go.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/pokemon-go.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t any kind of confirmation that the game is going to be re-released on Nintendo Switch, but it does feed the idea that there could very well be a port coming to the console. <strong>Especially since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/pokemon-receives-two-re-releases-on-switch-and-announces-the-date-of-the-next-pokemon-presents\" rel=\"noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and Pok\u00e9mon LeafGreen<\/a> have been ported before<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To learn more and find out whether that actually happens, we&#8217;ll have to wait. But given how successful previous Game Boy Advance Pok\u00e9mon ports on Nintendo Switch have been, it shouldn&#8217;t surprise us if Nintendo has decided to do it again. <strong>Although, again, for now we&#8217;ll have to make do with this video and the hope that this is real<\/strong>. Or dust off our old cartridge and play on our old consoles, which is still an equally legitimate way to replay these terrific games.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumors have been circulating for a while that Pok\u00e9mon Ruby and Sapphire could come to Nintendo Switch at some point in the future. Until now, they were only rumors based solely on how much people wanted to believe them, now we have a concrete reason to believe there could be some truth to them. Because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/two-of-pokemons-most-beloved-games-could-be-getting-a-port-very-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two of Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s most beloved games could be getting a port very soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":378665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-378666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378669,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378666\/revisions\/378669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378666"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=378666"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=378666"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=378666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}