5 Reasons Pokémon Home Isn’t Worth It

Pokémon Home was founded on a great idea, but the execution is a little too costly for what it provides.

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Pokémon Home is Nintendo’s newest entry to its online storage system program, but maybe it’s just not worth it.

Though the platform has seen early success, grossing 2.6 million dollars in its first month of availability, you shouldn’t be convinced that easily. Yes, the concept is grand– a box that can store and transfer up to 6,000 of your Pokémon from previous games seems lovely. However, that comes at a cost.

Here’s five reasons why Pokémon Home isn’t worth it for you.

5 You May Lose Your Pokémon

The National Pokédex is gone from the newest games with no plans to return soon. That means some Pokémon not in the regional Pokédex can be locked game-to-game. Combine that with the fact that Pokémon Home can only send games to the latest generation of games currently limited to only Sword and Shield, and you have the potential to have your Pokémon stuck in the database, unusable, for years.

Oh, but you still want to keep them, you say. In that case, you will need to keep your subscription up-to-date yearly. If your payment lapses, your Pokémon will be locked behind a paywall. You could have collected ribbons from various regions, made countless memories, and specially bred that Pokémon. It doesn’t matter. If you can’t transfer that Pokémon and don’t pay to sustain it, those Pokémon are inaccessible until you do so.

4 Extensive Pricing

Let’s talk price and crunch numbers. Ignoring the purchase price of a Nintendo Switch, there are several things you’ll need to use Pokémon Home: an online subscription on your Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Bank, and one of the games from the current generation.

Firstly, an online subscription costs $20. While you may already have one, if you don’t, that’s $20 you wouldn’t have otherwise spent. Sword & Shield each cost $60, which is also $20 more than you would have spent on any previous generation’s game. Additionally, Pokémon Bank costs $5, which is another cost. Beyond that, Pokémon Home itself costs $16. As you can see, these figures quickly add up.

In the past, playing a generation of Pokémon games costed $40. Now there’s a yearly release, and the total could be considered as high as $101. The effective cost of the game more than doubled. That’s a good reason to stay away.

3 It’s Only Compatible With Sword & Shield

At current, Sword & Shield are the only two games that can utilize Pokémon Home. This is pretty limiting.

Want to send your Pokémon back to an older game? Impossible. Instead, your Pokémon must stay in Galar or go back to Pokémon Home. That’s not great for a software that offers a paid premium version.

2 There’s Already A Lot Of Pokémon Available In Sword & Shield

Let’s face it. The amount of Pokémon available in Sword & Shield is very large. Do you need to bring your Pokémon from past games into this one? You may not. There’s a ton to catch, trade for, and breed already.

With any passage through Pokémon Home leading to a one-way trip, you may want to consider whether what’s what you want at all. Once you send your Pokémon through, there’s no going back.

1 The Core Features Are Free

If you’re just looking to store your Pokémon in the cloud or trade with people all over the world, you can still do that with the base version of Pokémon Home. If you’re persistent, you can even trade for all of the older generation Pokémon that aren’t capturable in Sword & Shield. That way you can save yourself a monthly fee. Of course you’re limited to storing only 30 Pokémon with a free account, so choose wisely.

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