Get Some Shut-Eye When Pokémon Sleep Arrives Next Year

Ummm... Too early for April Fool's Day guys...

Can Pikachu become my alarm clock and wake me up for work?

I feel attacked, just because I’m watching your conference at two in the morning, doesn’t mean I should be passively judged for it.

Okay okay okay, hol' up. Lemme get this straight. The company that uses stress-inducing limited-time events and Raids is wanting to encourage healthy sleep schedules.

I don't see any irony, here.

Holy crap this is something I actually could find useful.

I feel like Pokemon Rest would be a more appropriate name, but at least the current name is short and to the point.

Quality of Life project is repurposed into a Pokemon game!

What a snore fest....................

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@mattesdude I was thinking the same thing!

How can they use gameplay to promote better sleeping it seems like that would lead to sleeping anxiety depending on how this is all implemented.

@KingBowser86

Like when McDonalds tried to get people to eat salad.

The Pokemon Company in 2020: We have developed an app called Pokemon Live. It will tell you what you are supposed to be doing at all times. Stomach levels lowering? Notification to eat! Funny joke said among friends? Notification to laugh! Pokemon Live will live your life for you! Also Pokemon have something to do with it... I think...

Will Darkrai actually give me nightmares?

Oh i read Snap instead of Sleep and i was really happy..

@Abeedo You forgot the extra Pokemon Go Plus + Plus + Plus + Plus + Plus + Plus + add on that goes with it.

I hope it's compatible with existing sleep trackers, like Fitbit and Garmin

This is super weird. I just hope they don't try to push it by giving it some exclusive pokemon or something. Let it be its own weird little thing with maybe a few small perks in Go.

Well now we know what happened to Iwata's quality of life program.

Ummm so what exactly does this do? If it just records sleep patterns I don't see the point beyond Nintendo/Game Freak/Niantic creeping on us. And how does it know we are sleeping? by tracking GPS movement? When I am sitting in my apartment the GPS acts like I am walking around in circles so that wont work...

Pokemon Go? Pokemon Sleep? Where’s Pokemon Eat?

...What? Is...is this real life?

...Well, on one hand kids will now be excited to go to sleep. I guess.

Why do I get the sense that the Pokemon Company was involved in Nintendo's Quality of Life projects? That's all I can think of with this app, like with Wii Fit and the balance board.

Not sure how interested I am in it, though the biggest problem I'd deal with is the shame of not keeping to a consistent sleeping schedule

So, its Detective Pikachu Go Home and Master Sleep. Also, theres an All Might joke I can make with the accessory

I'm sorry but is this accessory called Pokemon go plus plus? Who is in charge of naming things over there...

Pokemon Plus and Minus: I am the most ridiculous Pokemon name ever.

Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon Go Plus Plus: Hold my beer.

Maybe the Quality of Life initiative wasn't so dead after all...

I think Nintendo knows their a gaming company, through and through. Pitching something that isn't a game wouldn't have worked. Now here we are.

However, I do find one fatal flaw with this- its the Plus Plus device. Millions of people already own devices that track health with higher accuracy- why not make an app for those devices? Forcing people to buy a Pokeball will greatly minimize the user base. If this was an app for Apple Watch or Android Wear, this would go gangbusters

They are milking the heck out of this franchise

Finally a game I will have the time to play

Hopefully it protects you from Hypno and Drowzee

@MetaRyan
Im sure a running watch doesnt correlate with sleep

But idk siivagunner died 5 different times, anything is possible

In 2025: Pokemon Company announces a new device: Pokemon Snap Plus Eat Sleep and Go Bank Home

.....Did the Onion secretly take over the press conference?

Next, Pokemon Dance, Pokemon Boxing, Pokemon Studio, Pokemon Education, Pokemon Ballet, Pokemon Zumba, etc.

I'm all for QoL software, GO had that exact function for quite many, as it was more of an excuse for taking walks, than an obsession with catching pokeymans.

BUT.
Don't call your new device "Plus +".
What's next then? "Plus + DoubleMinus" ?

way too many things that doesn't yell out pokemon for this franchise

Who said Quality of Life project was canceled? Here it is, in Pokémon form.

@Deku-Scrub I could go for some Moo-Moo milk or Tauros steak. lol

Sleeping is the best thing you can do for your eyes, but this is just ridiculous, I love it.

Missed opportunity here. It should have been called Pokemon GO To Sleep

That sounds... Really creepy.
Like they're selling you apps to spy on you using Pokemon as bait.

Vaguely disappointed the graphic does not feature Snorlax or Slaking.

What's next Pokemon Go Plus + Deluxe Extra??

E3 2020 dedicated to Pokemon Sleep

Pokémon Sleep is too easy. I can finish that game with my eyes closed.

There is another conference tomorrow right?

@Angelic_Lapras_King Oh yes, but if you forget to do anything, it turns into minus and electric shocks you

@Heavyarms55 I presume it'll work just the same any any other sleep tracking device and app. They're nothing new. The only difference is this will somehow link to Pokémon. Perhaps it'll be how to catch or evolve Munna in Go or something?

@Ogbert And those other sleep tracking apps work by...? I had no idea that was a thing. I mean, yeah, there is an app for everything, but this is one of those things I've never really heard anyone talk about.

@TenguKing That exists, it's highly illegal, violent, immoral and pretty nasty, but it exists.

Whut.

It's bad enough that my phone tracks and judges my sleep and exercise habits. Don't need my Pokemon getting in on it, too.

@Heavyarms55 No idea. I was only saying as you seemed to be doubting the core functionality would be possible. It's tech that's been around since early smart phones so I've no doubt that side of it will work well.

@Heavyarms55 : I was going to make a veal joke, but then realised that there are no calf Pokémon.

All they need to do is release Pokémon Eat and Pokémon Defecate and our lives will be complete.

@Ogbert Oh. Well, I mean there are apps that claim to do a lot of things. Many of them fail to really meet those claims however. lol

U GAIZ!!! QoL!!! IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!1

So many problems here ++

I am so happy I held out on buying a new Pokemon go watch, now I can get this one. WooT!

@Ogbert @Heavyarms55 They said in the press conference it would track your movements by accelerometer, and they showed it sitting on the bed next to a sleeping person. There's no way this can be super accurate - what about multiple people in the same bed, what about differences in mattress construction, what about the fact that it's not anchored so I'm likely to knock it off the bed if I actually do move? Fitbits and other health devices also track your movement at night by accelerometer, and sometimes by pulse rate, but they're attached to your wrist, not just sitting out in the open.

What I want to know is, how does this make sleeping more entertaining? I mean, I can choose to walk more or less, so offering me a reward for walking more makes sense because that encourages me to walk more and improves my quality of life. And having something to do while walking that is fun makes me think less about how walking is a chore and exercise is just applying pain in moderation to make your body stronger.

If I'm a poor sleeper, offering me a reward for sleeping better isn't going to fix that, because sleeping well is not really a conscious choice (I mean, other than when to go to bed). And I can't exactly do anything while sleeping...so how does this make sleep more entertaining? They keep using that phrase. I don't think it means what they think it means.

@NoxAeturnus hadn't seen that image. Perhaps there will also be a way to attach it to yourself for better results? The regular Go Plus ad a wrist-strap option, would be weird if this one didn't.

@Ogbert Maybe, but then it looks mighty bulky for a wearable.

This sounds weird and pretty dumb.

A lot of people seem to be asking about how the game would work. It seems that people aren’t familiar with existing sleep gamification apps. There are a handful out there, this is the one I’m familiar with: https://sleeptown.seekrtech.com/

I’d guess that it would be something like this. Basically trying to encourage people to get into a good regular sleep schedule.

I think I'll pass.

Nintendo got their April Fools' prank done two months late.

A sleeping app, exciting? What? I never even played Go, so this is just hilarious to me.

"When it is very hungry, it puts humans it meets to sleep, then it feasts on their dreams."

Hypno is definitely behind this

Pokémon Go Plus Plus??

Seriously? Pokémon Go Plus Plus? Could be anything else xD

@KingBowser86 Makes perfect sense to me. If you are stressing during the day, it is even more necessary to get quality sleep.

I already think about and play Pokemon every waking moment, now it will be in sleeping moments as well? It's getting harder and harder to say I don't have a problem

Lol, its the return of Nintendo's QOL project!