An update for Pokemon Home was rolled out today that will finally let FireRed and LeafGreen players transfer their Pokemon to the database, and then onto other games. However, the new category created for the Switch ports has reignited hopes that more older Pokemon games will be ported to the latest consoles in the future.
The expectation was that, since the versions of FireRed and LeafGreen being made compatible with Home today are on Switch, they’d simply be labeled using their names, much like Pokemon Champions and Pokemon Go. They have instead been filed under a newly added category - GBA Games.
It’s that detail which has Ruby, Sapphire, and potentially even Emerald port hopefuls believing again. Fans are wondering why Pokemon would make a whole new category just for two games. Yes, there's a category for 3DS games, but that category covers a lot more than just two games, so if anything, it has only solidified the belief that this GBA Games option has been created with the intention of adding more to it.
In order to put more games in that new category, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company need to go get them off the GBA and...
