The next big Pokemon Presents showcase is locked in for February 27 at 6am PT, and despite expectations that it’ll be filled with more content than usual, a new report states that it’ll run just about a minute longer than the Pokemon livestream event held last July. Pokemon fans have a lot of expectations coming into the showcase, and the early reveal of one set of games ahead of the Pokemon Presents could free up time for some even bigger announcements.
Pokemon Presents showcases allow the publishers and developers behind the monster-catching franchise to show off new games, shows, updates, and sneak peeks at upcoming merchandise and special events. The showcases can occur multiple times per year, but there’s almost always one on February 27, the anniversary of the first pair of games’ release in Japan in 1996, affectionately known in the fan community as Pokemon Day. With this year’s Pokemon Presents falling on the same day as Pokemon‘s 30th anniversary, a lot of added fanfare is expected to be added to the special event.
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Pokemon Presents February 2026 Date, Time, and Length
- Date: Friday, February 27
- Time: 6am P.T.
- Length: 25 minutes
Now, a new report from prominent Pokemon leaker CentroLeaks has revealed that the upcoming Pokemon Presents showcase will last for about 25 minutes. That’s on the longer side for the annual February presentation, as the average length over the past six years has come in at around 17 minutes, and the February 2023 Pokemon Presents’ nearly 26-minute runtime is an outlier that pulls the average up by a lot. Typically, these shows run longer when Pokemon’s publishers have a lot of big announcements to make, but considering that the official reveals of Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 were just made a full week ahead of the anniversary, Pokemon fans should have a lot to look forward to during the show.
For this year’s February Pokemon Presents, a lot of possibilities are on the table, but there’s one major announcement that’s almost a surefire guarantee, and it’s the official reveal of the mainline Gen 10 Pokemon games. The Pokemon Gen 10 teraleak from last October already revealed a lot of information about this pair of upcoming games, which will reportedly be called Pokemon Wind and Wave. Information obtained through that leak revealed that a battle function called “weather moves” will likely be part of these games, as will underwater exploration, jungle biomes, new models for several classic Pokemon, and the return of Titan Pokemon first introduced in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. While smaller leaks about Gen 10 have continued to pour in over recent weeks, the creative minds behind the Pokemon franchise still haven’t given players their first official look at the game, which is very likely coming during the upcoming Pokemon Presents.
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The Gen 10 games will likely take up a major chunk of the show, but if history is any indicator, fans should expect a lot more reveals than that. Pokemon Pokopia, the franchise’s first official life sim, is set for launch on March 5, and Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are almost certain to use Pokemon Presents to give it one last big push ahead of its release. Additionally, given the significance of the show’s date, fans can likely expect announcements of special 30th anniversary celebrations in Pokemon TCG Pocket, Pokemon GO, Pokemon Legends: Z-A, and a number of other games. Along with those probable announcements, the annual event is often used to give players their first glances as unannounced projects, so fans may get to see what developers have been able to keep hidden.
While that 25-minute estimate is above average for the showcase, it’s just a hair over the length of the last one. The Pokemon Presents showcase from July 2025 lasted 24 minutes and 12 seconds, with its most memorable aspect being big reveals of the story, setting, customization options, and gameplay of Pokemon Legends: Z-A, which was released roughly three months later. Information surrounding that game took up close to 30 percent of the show’s total runtime, but it still managed to fit in the reveals of games Pokemon Champions and Pokemon Friends, animated shows Pokemon Concierge and Pokemon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu, and the PokePark Kanto amusement park in Tokyo.
