Pokemon senior director and producer, Shigeru Ohmori, praises the series' switch from link cable to wireless communication when reminiscing on his time at Game Freak following the announcement that Kanto remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen, will be launching on Nintendo Switch next week. February 27 is better known as Pokemon Day to fans of the ball-bound beasts, when, in what has become a yearly tradition, a Pokemon Presents stream is held with the biggest series news for the upcoming year or so. Pocket Monster Christmas came a little early this year with the announcement that the generation three remakes of the original games will be available to purchase on the blessed day. Fans aren't the only ones nostalgic for the Game Boy Advance games that first launched in 2004, as Ohmori, who worked as a game and map designer on the twin games, shares his nostalgia surrounding their technological advancements. Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen get a surprise reveal for Nintendo Switch, and they'll be launching next week Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are skipping Switch Online because Nintendo "thought it would be fun" Pokemon Red and Green boss says the RPGs needed "a great deal of trial and error" to realize the devs' "simple concept" The Switch versions of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen will feature the same wireless connectivity as the original games, meaning that players can trade with each other locally but not online. However, we're begging The Pokemon Company for the chance to transfer 'mons caught in the upcoming games into the cloud-based service, Pokemon Home, but there's been no confirmation of this yet. Pokemon Pokopia director thought up the Animal Crossing-like while placing grass for Ruby and Sapphire, as he wanted to give players "the experience of creating their own Pokemon world"