Today we just learned the launch date from Pokemon Legends ZA, and we feel like the Switch

2 launch lineup this year is finally falling into place. Wow.

It is. And anything can happen these days. You can just wake up and the release date for a big

new game can just be waiting for you. Oh my gosh, that's what happened to us. Exciting. Log on as one does in the morning. And oh, here we go. Pokemon Legends, ZA. But yes, this question of, we know kind of what's coming in this first wave of games for the Switch 2. But there's a lot of questions about the rest of the year and how that's all going to fall out.

And this is one more little brick in that big puzzle for us.

Yeah.

So I think today we wanted to talk a little bit about this news and what was announced.

And then also go through once more Nintendo's launch calendar for Switch 2 because we got to fill in some dates, we got to make

some predictions about some things.

And there's still a couple of games that we don't have dates for that we think we can

slot into where they should go.

But overall, I think this is shaping up to be a pretty strong launch year for Switch 2.

But let's go into the Pokemon Legends, ZA news first.

So it is launching on October 16th, which is a date that we predicted, like a fall time frame that we predicted a few months ago, I think.

So go us.

Yeah.

Often these Pokemon games had been coming out in November,

so this is still relatively close, October 16th.

At Nintendo, we were often told about the importance of the October game in your lineup.

Obviously, the November game is very important because that's what leads

into Black Friday and more directly into the holiday buying period. But we were often told about,

well, the October game is often at least as important. And that's really what's building the

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