Continuing today's celebrations of Pokémon Day (the original games were released 22 years ago today in Japan), news has surfaced that the Pikachu Talk service - which was previously exclusive to Japan, is now available in western territories.
Available to use with Amazon Alexa in "most countries" and Google Home in the US, the Pikachu Talk service allows you to casually chat with Pikachu from the comfort of your home. You can now finally live out your wildest dreams of sharing every last thought with your very own Pika-pal, telling it about your day, asking it how to find the nearest supermarket, or even asking it the more important questions like "what is the meaning of life?"
Of course, in return you'll be hearing such classic phrases as "Pika!", "Pika-pi!", "Pi-kaaa-chuuuuuuuu", and more, as perfectly demonstrated in this tweet from Google Japan last year.
If you want this for yourself, you can enable the application for Amazon Echo here. If you still aren't persuaded yet, you simply have to check out this video of two Pikachu Talk applications talking to each other. It's the most wonderful blend of terrifying and cute you'll see this week.
So, will you be downloading your very own Pikachu friend? What will you ask it?
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[source gamespot.com]
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Pika Pika ?
This is Garbage! You might as well talk to Taz. No, Taz makes more sense than this rat.
hoping for a bayonetta option in the future.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
But it's FREE garbage
Not as cute as putting two of them together and letting them talk.
Great so now when Bezos records everything I say to use as data for his Amazon WaPo fake news agenda it will at least be done using a cutesie voice!
So it's like Hey You, Pikachu but irl?
This sounds great I'm putting it on as soon as I get back from work.
@Jamotello Imagine rudely asking her the weather or something and she shoots back "If you need to learn how to talk to a lady ask your mum".
I'd buy a Google Home in an instant XD
So I clicked on the highlighted "here" in the article and it brought me to a list of 2,000 skills. I searched for Pikachu which narrowed it down. It's called "Pikachu Talk" . Then I logged in and got the button to say Enable but it wouldn't let me click on it. So I opened my Amazon app and found it, but it said I could only enable it in my Alexa app. So I went in there and found it and enabled it but the Alexa had no idea what I was talking about. Then it finally worked.
So I spent 5 minutes enabling a skill I used for 5 seconds.
It is cute though, maybe my kids will annoy my wife with it. Too bad enabling skills is such a chore, my niece and nephew would like it but my sister will never put it on her Echo.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Here you go saying something negative again, which now belies your earlier claim to @Pineapple_Mohawk that you haven't said anything negative today.
What an amadán.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/02/nintendo_switch_is_now_the_fast-selling_console_in_france_with_1_million_units_sold#comment4358161
I'm sick of lying trolls.
https://www.nintendolife.com/users/JimmySpades/comments
It's pathetic, a stalker who doesn't comment on the story but instead follows me around the site throwing personal insults and attacks.
Alexa? Google Home? Out of the loop on those things, only deal with stuff that is sane.
I was hoping for GlaDOS, we get Pikachu instead.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Where's the lie? Earlier you said that you haven't said anything negative today. Then you said something negative about talking to Pikachu, which means it is no longer true that you haven't said anything negative today. And please stop passive-aggressively calling people lying trolls without having the courtesy to say it directly to them.
@JimmySpades Looking at your comment history, SLIGEACH is right. It's not a lie if when he said it, it was true. Past tense. Also he was expressing his own opinion and making a joke. Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see.
@NinjaAceTrainer Yes, it was true when he said it, but then it stopped being true. I couldn't help but point that out after yesterday him proclaiming he hadn't been negative and then today proclaiming it again. He was on the verge of a two day streak but just couldn't pull it off.
You say it's available in "western territories," meaning plural...more than one. Then you say it's just in the U.S. Hate to be the one to school a BRITISH website, but the West consists of more countries than just the United States. You keep focussing on those who threw your tea in the habour as the only western power but you forget that your loyalist cousins to the north, Canada, also counts as the West. And this feature is not available to smart speakers in this country.
@JimmySpades Why point it out though? He hadn't claimed that his 'streak' had continued. You do come across as a counter-SLIGEACH stalker, which is quite pathetic.
It would be cool if it could also work with other apps like Philips hue. I can imagine saying "use Thunderbolt" and the light come on (along with the battle cry).
I know I can probably set the command and response through Ifttt but it wouldn't have that same Pika charm.
@DarthFoxMcCloud Just below where I said it was released in western territories, I said: "Available to use with Amazon Alexa in "most countries" and Google Home in the US".
It is available in many territories with Amazon, it is only Google Home that is restricted to US.
@JimmySpades @SLIGEACH_EIRE The sexual tension here is killing me.
@SmaggTheSmug 😁
I never imagined Big Brother was so....so.......soft and cuddly!!
if i wanted to talk to Pikachu. I'll just play Hey, You Pikachu. thank you
Only available on Google Home in the US. Not available in the UK. Asking my Google Home to "Talk to Pikachu" simply gives the message "I'm afraid Pikachu isn't supported in this region."
It's like being back in the dark old ages where Pokemon games would come out in the US/Japan months before they made it to Europe!
HE EVEN SINGS HAPPY BIRTHDAY! https://nintendowire.com/news/2018/02/27/talk-pikachu-google-home-amazon-echo/
It's more adorable than it has any right to be.
Pointless. Free, harmless and pointless. I will still pass on the whole "Amazon/Google is always listening" stuff. Not a fan of that at all.
@FinalFrog It isn't the simply the Pikachu app. That whole line of devices does that.
@FinalFrog Ehh, I am far less concerned about that than I am having sounds recorded in my apartment. Unless you have modified your home, the city has your floorplan on file from when the building was built. All that would do is show them where you have our desk and dresser and stuff.
Well I have no Alexa or any of those fancy things, but I can talk to Pikachu using the stock Amazon app on my Android phone. Just click the mic in the top of the app and ask to talk to Pikachu.
If i had alexa I would ask pikachu the meaning of life for a laugh. He More the likely say pika pika lol.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Your "love to hate everything" attitude won't get you far in life.
The King of the Stalkers has made an appearance.
One step closer to a world where real Pokemon exist. Real in a Westworld sense anyway. Good or bad? Draw your own conclusions.
Enabled it, gonna try it out when I get home. It looks like a cute little bonus, and one of the nice things about Alexa skills is that they don't take any storage so you don't feel bad about enabling any old joke.
How do you enable it? I can't find an app for it or anything. I'm trying to enable it on my Google Home.
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