
Game Boy Advance · 2002
Pokémon Sapphire
ポケットモンスター サファイア
- Developer
- Game Freak
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Country
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Series
- Pokémon
- Release year
- 2002
- Alternate titles
- Pokémon Edición Zafiro · Pokémon Saphir
Standard · 🇯🇵 JP · CIB: 78 € (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)). Standard · 🇺🇸 US · CIB: 299 € (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)). Standard · 🇪🇺 EU · CIB: 246 € (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)).
Standard
| Región | SEALED | CIB | LOOSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇯🇵 JP | €138.00 €117.30 – €158.70 | €78.20 €66.47 – €89.93 | €22.54 €19.16 – €25.92 |
| 🇺🇸 US | €1,064.04 €904.43 – €1,223.65 | €298.79 €253.97 – €343.61 | €93.39 €79.38 – €107.40 |
| 🇪🇺 EU | €618.74 €525.93 – €711.55 | €246.40 €209.44 – €283.36 | €53.61 €45.57 – €61.65 |
Prices show the median of recorded sales (source: eBay + Heritage auctions + PriceCharting aggregates, the same data that feeds your portfolio). Differences between regions reflect rarity: Japanese AES copies are typically 2–4× cheaper than their European equivalents because they had a much larger print run.
Description
Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version are role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance. They are the first installments in the third generation of the Pokémon video game series, also known as the "advanced generation". After years of Nintendo being the sole publisher of the franchise in all regions, The Pokémon Company co-published the games for the first time since the establishment of the joint-owned company in 1998. They were first released in Japan in late 2002, and internationally in 2003. Pokémon Emerald, a third version, was released two years later in each region. Remakes of the two games, titled Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, were released for the Nintendo 3DS worldwide in November 2014, exactly twelve years to the date of the original Ruby and Sapphire release date, with the exception of Europe, where it released a week later. The gameplay is mostly unchanged from the previous games; the player controls the main character from an overhead perspective, and the controls are largely the same as those of previous games. As with previous games, the main objectives are to catc...
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Releases
| Platform | Region | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game Boy Advance | 🇯🇵 JP | 2002 | Nintendo |
| Game Boy Advance | 🇺🇸 US | 2002 | Nintendo |
| Game Boy Advance | 🇪🇺 EU | 2002 | Nintendo |