A brand new Pokémon Legends recreation is coming to the “Nintendo Switch family of systems” in 2025. Pokémon Legends: Z-A, introduced Tuesday with a quick teaser trailer, is an “ambitious new entry” into the sequence that may launch concurrently worldwide. It’s additionally gas for the fireplace {that a} new Nintendo Switch console is coming subsequent yr.

The first Pokémon Legends recreation, Arceus, launched in 2022. Arceus was new floor for the franchise: the primary open-world recreation within the sequence, one thing for which followers had lengthy clamored. The Pokémon Company provided little in the best way of particulars on Z-A, which can happen in Lumiose City of the Kalos area, the France-inspired setting launched in Pokémon X and Y. In Pokémon Legends: Z-A, “an urban redevelopment plan is underway to shape the city into a place that belongs to both people and Pokémon.”

Wording across the recreation’s launch, particularly that it’ll come to Nintendo “systems,” has already caught the eye of some followers. While that would consult with variations on the Switch—the Switch Lite, the OLED model—reports earlier this month counsel that the Switch successor is anticipated in 2025. VGC reports that the delay could possibly be a push to provide Nintendo time to line up “stronger first-party software.”

Anticipation for a brand new Nintendo console couldn’t be increased. It’s been almost seven years because the firm launched the Switch and greater than two because the OLED model dropped. All the extra cause for followers to invest about when the subsequent system would possibly come. Following Tuesday’s Z-A announcement, “Switch 2”—the title generally given to the (presumably) forthcoming console—began trending on X with followers posting “I can care about Pokémon again” and “The Switch 2 has to be next year because I just know they don’t want us playing the new Pokémon game in 30 [frames per second].”

The new Switch’s existence is hardly a secret lately; throughout GDC’s 2024 state-of-the-industry survey, 8 p.c of polled builders mentioned they had been engaged on video games for its successor. It’s not a query of if the Switch 2 exists; it’s when Nintendo will lastly announce it.