Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (ポケットモンスター オメガルビー&アルファサファイア Poketto Monsutā Omega Rubī & Arufa Safaia) are two video games slated for release for the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld game consoles. They are remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance titles Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. The games were announced on May 7, 2014, in a teaser trailer released by Nintendo.

Speculation about remakes of Ruby and Sapphire had been going on for years, most notably seeing references to the games and their region, Hoenn, in the 2013 predecessors Pokémon X and Y. In fact, "Hoenn Confirmed" became an internet meme that accompanied speculation.

Nintendo announced the remakes in a press release on May 7, 2014. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will be released In Japan, North America, and Australia on November 21, followed by Europe on November 28, 2014. As with X and Y, the games will include all official translations, unlike previous generations where each game contained only a single language. The only detailed information given is that the new games will "take the players through a dramatic story within a spectacular new world". Following the announcement, it was initially unclear if Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were remakes of Ruby and Sapphire or entirely new games, due to the wording of the press release. In a financial results briefing that occurred a day after the reveal, the president of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, confirmed that the new games are full remakes of their 2002 counterparts.

During Nintendo's live Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 video on June 10, 2014, (and later produced in print in Japan's CoroCoro Comic) a trailer for Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire displayed new gameplay footage, including the new playable character designs and new Mega Evolutions for Sceptile and Swampert that were not featured in X and Y as Blaziken was. A press release from Nintendo hinted that other Mega Stones (in-game items required for Mega Evolution) could only be found in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire '​s setting of Hoenn. The press release and official websites for the video games also announced that the new forms of Groudon and Kyogre featured on the games' box art were their Primal (ゲンシ Genshi) forms, accessed through a method known as "Primal Reversion" (ゲンシカイキ Genshi Kaiki), which in the games' story is theorized to be related to Mega Evolution.

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