October 12 is supposed to be the official world wide release of Pokemon X and Y to kick off the 6th generation of Pokemon, but I have heard that in some places stores are able to sell them a day early. I have been told that in NA no stores have been allowed to release the games early even though some copies have leaked, and I do now that at least in NA on the 3DS eShop you will be able to at midnight est time buy the digital version of the games to download right away. However I imagine the downloads of X and Y will be slow as the servers get slammed from all the others wanting to download at midnight.

So I am very roaring excited about seeing modern Pokemon games on modern hardware since the 4th and 5th gen games were designed to be able to play on hardware released in 2004, and X and Y, the 6th gen, I expect to have greatly amazing visuals and sound on the 3DS.

Pokemon I am very excited about are Pyroar, a Lion based Pokemon, and being able to have a Mega Charizard. I will be picking Froakie since I have always chosen water starters.

I will be getting both X and Y tomorrow in physical form and will in 2-3 weeks make another journal giving my full thoughts on the games after playing them.

Edit-
I forgot to mention that on October 12 is also the launch of the Nintendo 2DS which has no planned Japanese release.