Pokemon Home Announced, Social, Cloud Storage And Transfer Service For Pokemon Across All Games (PoGO, Let’s Go, Mainline Games)

[Deleted member 249]

It connects Pokemon Bank, Pokemon Let's Go, and Pokemon GO, as well as upcoming Pokemon games such as Pokemon Shield and Sword.

Each Pokemon's "Values" will be preserved.

It will be accessible via smartphones, allowing for trading and social features, and will launch in early 2020.

 

[Deleted member 8001]

This looks fucking awesome

 

[AlexFlame116]

Announced by Junichi Masuda at the Business Conference! Seems to be a new version of Bank that improves on Bank features and is compatible with Let's Go!

Will feature connectivity with the GO games and will allow you to trade with friends and others! Arrives in 2020

 

[Deleted member 2791]

it's just the pokémon bank right

 

[Fat4all]

lets go home

 

[Neoxon]

Looks like it's a one-way trip for anything prior to Sword/Shield.

 

[Deleted member 8001]

You can trade via it too.

 

[ZeroX]

I hope the mobile app is amazing, I'm so sick of managing my collection on a 3DS lol

 

[Dest]

alexa shut the fuck down

 

[The_Strokes]

FUCKING FINALLY

 

[Bishop89]

How much?

 

[808s & Villainy]

Looks like it's a one-way trip for anything prior to Sword/Shield.

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Based on what exactly? Bank is a cloud service. If it can interact with this to transfer in one direction, why wouldn't it in the other?

 

[Samaritan]

Looks like Bill finally discovered the cloud!

 

[Lotus]

Very interesting

 

[jon bones]

shame, i lost my 3ds cart and all my mons

 

[Deleted member 4532]

It connects Pokemon Bank, Pokemon Let's Go, and Pokemon GO, as well as upcoming Pokemon games such as Pokemon Shield and Sword.

Each Pokemon's "Values" will be preserved.

It will be accessible via smartphones, allowing for trading and social features, and will launch in early 2020.

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Holy MEGATON

 

[ZiZ]

Sounds great!

 

[Deleted member 14313]

This is something I've wanted for years! Never thought it'd happen.

 

[Sandfox]

it's just the pokémon bank right

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It's like Bank but with connectivity to Go, Let's Go, Bank, and Sword and Shield as well as smartphone functionality where you can trade via your phone.

Based on what exactly? Bank is a cloud service. If it can interact with this to transfer in one direction, why wouldn't it in the other?

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The diagram showed that it was one way for everything other than Sword and Shield.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Yay my Let's Go Pokemon won't get left behind!

 

[Neoxon]

Based on what exactly? Bank is a cloud service. If it can interact with this to transfer in one direction, why wouldn't it in the other?

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The arrows shown in the presentation. Sword/Shield is the only one that shows arrows to & from Pokémon Home.

 

[AuthenticM]

this is actually big

 

[Future Gazer]

This is a pretty great evolution of Pokemon Bank. Way beyond my expectations actually.

 

[BasilZero]

Eh...I guess its nice.


Edit: Oh the smartphone part. hmm


Its about damn time they expand the IP to make it more socially adapt.

Pokemon GO is already pretty big and with this, it will increase the value of the IP so thats great.

 

[hammurabi]

This sounds perfect.

 

[golguin]

Sounds interesting.

 

[TheMink]

Yeah wow pretty impressive to be honest!

 

[brinstar]

I was hoping they'd make just this kind of thing.

 

[Kinsei]

It better be included with the price of Bank.

 

[Puffy]

Is it free?

 

[Deleted member 8001]

Is it free?

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It's cloud so no. It'll prob have a fee.

 

[5taquitos]

So I could take my Go mons to Sword/Shield?

 

[ILikeFeet]

So I could take my Go mons to Sword/Shield?

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yes. probably not the starter chu and eevee

 

[Deleted member 249]

So I could take my Go mons to Sword/Shield?

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Seems like that's the case.

 

[jon bones]

yes. probably not the starter chu and eevee

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that makes me want to cop Lets Go lol

 

[Rockets]

Trading via smartphone is fucking genius

 

[Noog]

I'm happy I get to carry over my Let's Go Mew. This is exactly what I was hoping for

 

[5taquitos]

yes. probably not the starter chu and eevee

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Seems like that's the case.

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That's kind of a big deal, right? I haven't played a mainline game since Emerald so I don't know if this is big.

 

[Deleted member 249]

That's kind of a big deal, right? I haven't played a mainline game since Emerald so I don't know if this is big.

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It's big that they are unifying all the disparate Pokemon games into one central hub and code base, yeah.

 

[Lukar]

This sounds amazing.

 

[jett]

edit: wrong thread

 

[Xavi]

This is basically what I wished for when the Switch was announced. Also, smartphone compatibility? YES!!

 

[@dedmunk]

can you trade with your friends?

 

[AdmiralSnackbar]

That's kind of a big deal, right? I haven't played a mainline game since Emerald so I don't know if this is big.

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I mean everyone expected they'd add SOMETHING to unify the current gen ecosystem.

The fact that they are kind of ditching the old unifying hub and following up with a new unifying hub that does mostly the same thing but with a few new features instead of updating the old one is exactly the kind of nonsense I'd expect from GameFreak.

 

[Aleh]

This sounds amazing and way better than Bank. So in.

 

[Deleted member 249]

I mean everyone expected they'd add SOMETHING to unify the current gen ecosystem.

The fact that they are kind of ditching the old unifying hub and following up with a new unifying hub that does mostly the same thing but with a few new features instead of updating the old one is exactly the kind of nonsense I'd expect from GameFreak.

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The old one was device bound due to how 3DS handles user profiles. That's not on Game Freak, it's how the 3DS was designed.

Using a more expanded version that's a social hub and independent of any device is a very smart idea.

 

[TheAggroCraig]

This was the only news I was hoping for so yay. Shirts are a solid silver medal though.

 

[milkyway]

Wow this is a lot more than I was expecting - being that it connects to everything relevant, works on the smart phone, and even has trading ability from the smartphone! I just hope I don't have to pay for both Bank and Home - you should get both with one price or something.

 

[Conrad Link]

My wife was hoping to be able to trade one of her shiny Eevee from Let's Go! over to Shield, too bad this is launching later than that as she'd want to have it while playing through the game. :(

 

[xendless]

Time to seriously shiny grind Let's Go now I know they won't be stuck there forever