Overnight, The Pokémon Company announced four new Pokémon games and services during a brief but busy press conference: a new Detective Pikachu game, a new cloud-based Pokémon storage and trading service, a new mobile game where you battle legendary trainers, and a sleep-tracking app so you’re never free of Pokémon even while unconscious.
The new Detective Pikachu game will act as a sequel to the first one – that was released on 3DS back in 2016. If you’ve not played it and have only seen this year’s Ryan Reynolds-starring Detective Pikachu film, it’s worth knowing the movie is only based on the game and that this new sequel will offer a different ending to the one you saw play out on screen (no spoilers here, but you know the moment we mean…).
There’s no footage or release date yet. Also, no word on Danny DeVito.
Next up, Pokémon Home. This app for Switch and smartphone is your next-gen Pokémon Bank storage service with trading features built-in to swap pocket monsters between friends or others worldwide. There’s no word on pricing or a subscription plan. It’ll launch early 2020.
From the looks of the graphic above, Home will offer a one-way transfer between existing games Pokémon Go, Pokémon Let’s Go and from Pokémon Bank, and a two-way transfer to and from the upcoming Switch games Pokémon Sword and Shield. This keeps existing games with their current set of Pokémon, but means the upcoming Switch games will presumably be compatible with all Pokémon released so far (along with its newest species).