Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have announced that the Mega Dimension expansion for Pokémon Legends: Z‑A will launch for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 on December 10, 2025. Priced at £24.99 / $29.99, the DLC is already available for purchase on the Switch eShop and promises new Mega Evolutions, a story threaded through Hyperspace Lumiose, and the return of fan-favorite mechanics like Mega Evolution.
What's new: release, price and platforms
- Release date: December 10, 2025
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2
- Price: £24.99 / $29.99 (available now on the Switch eShop)
- Mega Raichu X and Mega Raichu Y (featured prominently on key art)
- Mega Baxcalibur, wielding an enormous ice-forged blade
- Mega Chimecho, which uses chimes to unleash powerful sound-wave attacks
- Additional Mega forms teased for Pokémon such as Diancie and Meganium in some promotional materials
- If you finished the base Pokémon Legends: Z‑A story and want more late‑game battles, additional Mega Evolutions and new high-level encounters, this DLC is a clear buy at its current price.
- Players who enjoy exploration-driven side content and new boss-style fights (especially ones that require strategic use of Mega Evolutions) will likely find value.
- If you prefer purely quality‑of‑life updates or minor content drops, you may want to wait for hands-on reviews or player impressions, particularly given the community speculation around scale and balance.
The expansion was teased in fresh trailers that outline a short, supernatural mystery in Lumiose City and a dimension-hopping adventure that expands the base game's scope.
The adventure: distortions, donuts and Hyperspace Lumiose
The DLC opens after Team MZ appears to have restored peace to Lumiose City, only for mysterious distortions to begin forming across town. The trailers introduce a new ally, Ansha, a donut chef who travels with a Hoopa — the Mischief Pokémon whose ring-based powers have long been tied to interdimensional travel. Through Ansha and Hoopa, players will explore Hyperspace Lumiose, a layered, otherworldly version of the Kalos capital.
Trailers and developer notes hint at a few novel mechanics for these excursions. Ansha’s berry‑filled donuts reportedly affect how long players can survey hyperspace areas; visuals in the overview trailer also showed wild Pokémon with levels far beyond the normal Lv. 100 cap, suggesting hyperspace encounters will present unusually difficult battles and rewards.
New Mega Evolutions and returning faces
Mega Evolution returns as a key focus of the expansion. The promotional art and trailers spotlight multiple new Mega forms:
The DLC also brings back Korrina, the Kalos Gym Leader originally introduced in Pokémon X and Y, now reimagined in a futuristic design and cast as a guide to Kalos heritage and Mega Evolution lore.
How big is this DLC? Speculation and confirmed details
On the confirmed side, trailers and official materials describe a story that interweaves Hoopa’s portal powers, new characters, and Mega Evolution challenges. The expansion appears to be more expansive than some recent post-launch packs: trailers show hyperspace areas with Pokémon at absurdly high levels and new gameplay loops tied to exploring alternate-dimension zones.
Unconfirmed reports and data-mines circulating in the community have suggested a much larger content drop — potentially dozens of new Pokémon and scores of additional Mega forms. Those claims remain unverified by Nintendo or The Pokémon Company and should be treated as speculation until officially confirmed.
How this compares to past DLC
Compared with DLC released for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, Mega Dimension looks to lean more heavily into new narrative beats and late‑game challenge content rather than just adding wild-area-style expansions. The reintroduction of Mega Evolution — a mechanic absent from some recent generations — will be the headline draw for longtime fans, while hyperspace mechanics and character-based story hooks aim to give returning players new reasons to revisit Lumiose.
Who should buy it — and why
Official event tie-ins
The Pokémon Company continues to support the game with Mystery Gift distributions and event Pokémon; recent communications have tied limited distributions (for example, Diancite/Diancie events) to the broader Z‑A rollout. For details on official distributions and timed events, check the Pokémon Company’s news page at pokemon.com.
Bottom line
Mega Dimension aims to bring Mega Evolution back in a big way, wrapped in a compact, story-driven package that sends trainers to a haunting, higher-stakes version of Lumiose City. With a December 10 release and a familiar price point for major Pokémon DLC, it looks geared at players who want new mechanical hooks and tougher battles after finishing the base game. Community leaks hint at even larger surprises, but until Nintendo or The Pokémon Company confirms additional Pokémon or Mega forms, the trailers and official notes provide the clearest picture: Mega Dimension is a late‑year expansion meant to rekindle Mega Evolution and push trainers into stranger, more challenging territory.