Game Freak's Junichi Masuda took to the stage during the 2019 Press Conference to announce Pokémon HOME – a new cloud service compatible with the Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and the existing Pokémon Bank service on the 3DS.
It will arrive early next year and will allow trainers to transfer and trade pocket monsters from multiple games including Pokémon GO, Pokémon Let's Go and the upcoming release, Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Introducing Pokémon HOME, a cloud service that will work with Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android devices, allowing you to bring over the Pokémon that you’ve shared adventures with throughout your journey.
Pokémon HOME isn’t tied to a single game system, meaning you can connect with Pokémon Bank, along with #PokemonLetsGo, #PokemonSwordShield, and #PokemonGO. It also features trading functionality.
Pokémon HOME launches early on in 2020. What are your thoughts about this new service? Tell us below.
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I was wondering how they were going to allow us to transfer pokemon from the 3DS games. Only question I have is whether or not it'll be a paid service. If it is a paid service then it sucks that we have to pay for both pokemon bank and pokemon home
Includes mobile so are we gonna see our Go Pokemon appear in the main series?
This is what I've needed to solve my storage woes in PoGo.
I quickly filled up all my Safari Zone Parks in Let's Go! Pikachu, and can't keep up with catching those Pokémon with the rate I catch creatures in Go to refill my Safari Zone.
I'm certain this will be a paid service, but I hope that it will be one membership between this and Bank, or else I'll have to do 2 subs in order to continue to transfer creatures from Gens I-VII onward…
Another trading system on top of Pokémon Bank is a tad annoying. Hopefully we won’t have to pay for it as well, but atleast they’re finally setting a system down
They know when you are sleeping
They know when you're awake...
And now we have a Pokémon bank 2.0 to look forward to
And that Masters thing, good grief.
Pokémon getting all sorts of stuff out. Making even MORE money.
This seems pretty cool, I'm glad that we will be able to transfer our old pokemon from our GBA and DS games through the 3ds. Maybe it will be a better version of my pokemon ranch
Sorry for the vitriol, but I'm honestly just annoyed that the transfer app is going to be out in (what will most likely be) months after Sword and Shield are out. True, it's nice to just enjoy the pokemon one region has to offer without relying on old standbys, but when they did this back in Sun and Moon I really found it a pain.
Pokémon GO Plus Plus
Is there a Pokémon-themed medical device that helps me breathe from laughing so hard? Because I can't even.
Looks like GF is going to keep your old Pokemon compatible for a very long time to come. If I kept my old Pokemon then I guess I would want to continue using them as well.
Does this still include hacked Pokemon from older games?
Excellent news. I was going to buy Sword/Shield anyway, but I feel like this was almost essential.
@GamePerson19
the most obvious thing is that the service is paid, especially for the maintenance of servers (presumably, maintenance is not cheap, have to remember).
About Pokemon Bank, I think that there will possibly be an update with Bank and thus, the payment of the Pokemon Home service already includes the payment of Pokemon Bank
Now here's the real question: Will the West have to wait stupidly long to get this like with Bank, or will it just not work for the first month or so like the new app?
I wish they would have just kept the name Bank instead of having a “new system” with a different name that does the same thing lolol
Gonna be honest, this was the only thing that I cared about from the press conference. Glad to hear confirmation that all of our work won't be for naught
@KingBowser86 I thought it was a joke as well. Let's hope the name changes by the time of release
Thank goodness. I love my shiny Charizard.
This looks really solid so far. Looking forward to seeing how it works.
Presumably this will replace Pokemon Bank. I can get behind this. It is the same sort of idea I had a ways back. A sort of Pokemon Utility app that crosses the lines between the various games.
I am quite curious how transferring Pokemon between Go, Let's Go, Bank and Sword/Shield will go, since Go and Let's Go both have totally different stat systems from the real Pokemon titles.
But I have a lot of nice shiny Pokemon in Go/Let's Go that I would love to be able to potentially transfer to Sword and Shield, EV and hyper train and use in battle competitively!
And I am very very happy to know my collection in Pokemon Bank, which extends all the way back to generation 3, will be coming along with me to the Switch and Sword and Shield.
@Ulysses Most likely any Pokemon correctly hacked to be entirely naturally obtainable with all the correct capture and location data, stats etc... yes those will still sneak through as there is no real way to determine that they are hacked.
And I have no complaints with that, personally.
I've been wondering for a while what would happen with the Pokemon Bank on the Switch, especially with Let's Go, Go, and Sword and Shield coming, as well as Meltan and Melmetal only being available on the former two. I only have OR and Sun with Pokemon to bring over, but it is nice to know I'll be able to keep them with me. Curious about the pricing, and what will happen with the Bank, but otherwise, glad to hear this.
Awesome. I got like 10 years worth of Pokemon collected, glad to get to keep it going.
I feel like this was a golden opportunity missed. It should've been called Pokémon Center
Oooooh. It surprised me that Pokémon Bank is recieving a successor rather than a port.
There seems to be a big focus on interactivity here, but I wonder how it will adapt to Switch to also provide a home experience. Maybe a GTS-like hub?
Sweet, how much?
Finally, an omnipresent digital prison for your virtual cage fighting slaves.
@Leo_ascendent
"Free of use to Nintendo Online subscribers" is my expectation entirely.
@Pod I could see that, MS and Sony use that practice and people don't (normally) fuss about it.
I'm down if it's free. I find it puzzling that Pokemon Bank was a subscription service. Like, I'm only going to use it maybe once or twice, I don't see any value in subscribing for a year for something like that. Makes more sense to just trade between games for any banking use.
So good! Now I have an excuse to keep playing Pkm Sun and level up the rest of my team's for S&S!
Great idea, actually makes me kinda tempted to pick up Let's Go to get a good stock of the gen 1 Pokemon.
So it looks like you'll be able to bring your Pokemon from Go, Let's Go and Bank to Home but not send them back. With Shield and Sword, you'll be able to send them and retrieve them. Interesting.
I've not played Pokemon seriously since Red/Blue and Gold/Silver (although I did complete Let's Go Pikachu recently for the nostalgia), but I have never traded Pokemon between games or anything like that. Clear something up for me...
If I level up a Pokemon in, say, Let's Go Pikachu to lvl.100 or whatever, or I have a shiny Mewtwo or something, I can carry that over to the new Pokemon game, stats and all? And have it playable from the beginning of the game? Someone enlighten me on how this works because I think I'm missing something.
Also, you can only complete a full Pokedex in the new games by trading across Pokemon from older games? Like 20 year old games..?
@frabbit You can probably bring them across at the start, but not control them until you get enough badges (It’s what the “Pokemon up to level X will obey you”-clauses on the badges was for), so in the case of level 100 ‘mon, you won’t get to use them until you cleared all the gyms/whatever you get badges from.
Since you’ll likely be unable to transfer pokemon until Pokemon home releases (months after Sword and shield), it won’t be much of an issue anyway.
@MysticX well that clears that up! Always wondered what those clauses on the badges were all about! Cheers
@-Green- this said I felt this is meant to be more the evolution of "Bank" than an addition?
When they revealed that Sword and Shield would really be talked only on the 5th if June Direct, I knew the presentation would focus purely on Go or business stuff so Home was actually the only thing I was glad to know of since it confirm we can transfer our pokemons of the 6th/7th Gen from Bank to the 8th gen on Switch.
Plus, apparent phone support might make for something more seamless than having to shut or switch app in threw 3DS itself. Depending on how it work in the 8th gen it sounds like you could manage stuff in Home without needing to close your actual game.
I suspect there will be means to transfer Pokemons from 7th to 8th gen without Home but then again Bank is already an online system(it literally it's Cloud storage if you think about it) which is what might make 3DS/Switch transfer very likely even before Home.
Which is why I heavily suspect Home will be an evolution of Bank(supported as a new phone app) rather than an additional app.
Bizarrely, 28 May was the exact date my current Pokemon Bank subscription expired. When I saw there was a new service announced this morning got a little worried I'd just renewed for no reason - remains to be seen whether that's the case.
Got to say, whether you call it Home or Bank, the service should 100% be a Nintendo Switch Online bonus going forward. It's cloud saving with a fancy name.
@MysticX I suspect the 8th gen will actually support Bank. Everything is already online which make it easier to perform cross console storage.
Where Home will change thing is, I suspect, as an evolution of Bank whose core update will not be in supporting the 8th gen(the easiest part of things here since 8th gen will run the same stats/moves/etc standard than the 6th and 7th gen). Rather the reason Home will be a thing I suspect will be mobile phone support and the ability to service for the first time Pokemons of the GO-style games.
I think 8th gen thus won't have to wait until 2020 to support pokemon transfers from previous gens.
Of course, I could be wrong. There's a lot of Pokemons in the games so delayed support of transfers could be a great way to give devs time to "code in" the pokemons of previous games they didn't have time to model at release. Thus "adding" in transfer support only when those are ready would be a good way to give them that time to finish up things.
I guess we'll see when S&S actually releases and how close to the holidays(and thus the impending next year) the game's release will land.
Ok. I have a Switch and a kid under ten. Neither of us has played Pokémon (sorry!). What game would be best to start with?
@KIRO Let's Go Pikachu or Let's Go Eevee. It is a really good introduction. The game is a revamp of the first game while also kind of a re imagining since it is much easier than the original. So definitely a good gateway title to the world of Pokemon.
Nintendo 3DS is on that list which makes me think that if you took your Pokemon out of the bank and and kept it on cartridge you can go straight to Home with them rather than paying both subscriptions.
While I'm glad that we'll be able to transfer our pokemon from our 3DS if we want. I'll be less pleased if I hafta pay for a new subscription instead of just continuing to pay for the one already purchased, and if i hafta pay for NSO on top of it. I know it's not much, its more the principal of having to pay twice.
@magnumc500 Was always a big fan of Pikachu, so that’s that settled - cheers!
This is probably the only actually exciting announcement from the entire presentation to be honest. Didn't care about any of the mobile stuff. Oh, yeah, and Detective Pikachu coming to Switch is alright too but without gameplay footage it's hard to get excited for that as of yet.
@Ludovsky I hope you're right, i understand GF wanting players to play through the gyms or whatever with Sword/Shield pokemon, but i want my trusty pokemon, some of them transferred from game to game since the GBA-games to make the leap to the Switch without having to wait several months for Nintendo and GF to decide "Ok, now it's time"
I’m kind of happy with this as you can handle bank sorting and still be actually playing the game.
@GamePerson19 you don't have to do anything and why why should it be free in your opinion?
@LoveEmpath Not saying that it should be free, just saying that it's a shame that pokemon bank wont be the way to transfer pokemon anymore so that means that we will have to pay for another service on top of bank (for those that dont already have it). Essentially we have to pay for a service that we wont even need after possibly one use. Would have been better to have a pokemon Home app on 3ds systems
@GamePerson19 I mean from that flow chart it does show Nintendo 3DS and Pokemon Bank, so i'm thinking you'll have a way to sent your Pokemon directly from the digital game or cartridge to Home without having to buy or renew your Pokemon Bank. Who knows, pokemon bank may simply become Home. gotta wait and see.
@GamePerson19 That was my initial worry... Back when Bank started I was a little kid with no money so I was forced to forfeit my level 100 Pocket Monsters in Black and White
@MysticX I hear you. Admitedly the only reason I could see transfer support delayed until the release of "Home" is actually an indirect one;
There's already close to 800+ total pokemon as of Ultra Moon/Sun.
Even if the "Galar Pokedex" has equal to the roughly ~450 pokemons found in the Alola Pokedex, it still leaves 350-400 "legacy" pokemon to create(or at least update) models/textures/animations for ontop of the ones who can be obtained in "regular" fashion in the upcoming games.
So perhaps the only reasons I could picture generation transfer having to wait until the release of Pokemon Home is specifically only if they actually haven't yet finished creating the models for all the "legacy" pokemons to be supported in the game, which remains a possibility. Especially as there is likely going to be a fair bit of them if the Galar region is to include it's own new additions to the national Pokedex in the form of new pokemons.
@magnumc500 Personally I suspect Home will be very much the "future Pokemon Bank". I assume the app will remain known exclusively as "Pokemon Bank" on 3DS in the same way the Pokemon Transporter originally made for Black/White(iirc) still exist, albeit as a mean to transport pokemons from even older games into Bank's cloud storage.
It may well be that we might actually get a Pokemon Bank app on Switch first as well as a temporary stopgap between the 3DS' Bank and the release of Home as a phone app that would be able to access our Bank/etc cloud storage without even needing to open our console.
I for one am super stoked about it. I'm back on my 3DS breeding them with my OT name from the 3DS and ready to put'em up in my new..."Home". Feeling good about that pun
@-Green- Why should it be annoying? Its more annoying to always have to put your Pokémon back to the games to be able to trade them, with the new solution, you can directly trade.
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