Pokémon Legends: Z-A is out. The Pokémon Company International dated the launch October 16, 2025, from Bellevue, and Nintendo of America’s store still carries that day on both SKUs. Nintendo Switch is $59.99. The Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is $69.99. The Switch 2 Edition Upgrade Pack is $9.99. Those three figures are what the official US store is charging. I checked the product pages. I am not rounding them into a slogan.
Nintendo of America also sold a hardware bundle the same day: Nintendo Switch 2 plus the Switch 2 Edition game download, suggested retail $499.99 in the United States. That is the only bundle price I am putting in this piece, because that is the one Nintendo printed. The upgrade pack works on a digital or physical Switch copy. The official legends site is clear about that. Play the Switch 2 Edition on a Switch and you get Switch-level content, not the extra resolution and frame rate.
Lumiose After X and Y, With a Company Doing the Redevelopment
The official pitch is a city, not a region map you fly over. Lumiose is being rebuilt so people and Pokémon both belong there. Nintendo names the developer of that plan: Quasartico Inc. Prism Tower is still the landmark. Shops, restaurants, and wild zones sit around it. Wild zones are where Pokémon roam free during the day. Your first partner is Chikorita, Tepig, or Totodile. AZ owns Hotel Z. Team MZ is trying to keep the city peaceful. Those are names Nintendo put in the launch post. I am not adding a gym leader they did not introduce.
Battles are real time. The Pokémon Company is specific: for the first time in the Pokémon RPG series, Trainers and their Pokémon both move freely, and a Pokémon uses a move when you tell it to. Timing and area of effect matter. Mega Evolution is back as a temporary transformation that can change appearance, power, and sometimes type. Rogue Mega-Evolved Pokémon are the problem the city cannot ignore. Investigate those incidents and you may meet Mega forms that are new. I am not listing a Pokédex Nintendo did not attach to the launch note.
Rank Z to Rank A After Dark
Night is the other half of the loop. Battle zones appear for the Z-A Royale, a ranked fight from Z up to A. Bonus card challenges speed the climb if you play them. Reach the top and the official copy says you might have a wish granted. I am leaving that sentence as a wish. The Z-A Battle Club is the player-versus-player room: up to four Trainers at once, local or online. Online needs Nintendo Switch Online. That membership is sold separately, which Nintendo is careful to say.
The Switch 2 Edition is the enhanced-resolution, enhanced-frame-rate SKU. If you bought the $59.99 Switch version first, the $9.99 upgrade pack is the official path onto that SKU. I do not have an official US dollar price for later DLC on the launch pages I can stand on, so I am not writing one. Nintendo’s post points at upcoming DLC without a day or a number I can verify here.
October 16 Is a Store Date
The Switch 2 Edition launch trailer sits on Nintendo of America’s YouTube, which is the cut I am embedding. Watch @Pokemon and @NintendoAmerica for the North American accounts. The primary pages are The Pokémon Company’s October 16 press release, the official release-date note, Nintendo’s Lumiose launch post, and the US store listing. $59.99, $69.99, $9.99, $499.99 for the hardware bundle. Lumiose is open. The Royale starts when the lights come on.