Pokémon Home Is Set To Release Next Month
Pokémon Home will be releasing in February 2020.
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This morning’s Pokémon Nintendo Direct wasn’t just about upcoming games and DLC updates. At the end of the 20-minute video, Game Freak announced that Pokémon Home will be available next month. The details were pretty vague about whether or not Home will have a subscription fee or how it will roll out. Still, we can recap what we already know about the app from past information dumps.
During the 3DS era, transferring Pokémon between games required the use of an app called the Pokémon Bank. A paid subscription service, it held all of your creatures from every past Pokémon game in one convenient place. You’d transfer them to your current trainer and be able to use them in competitive battles without needing to go through the trouble of recapturing them all. It was similar to how the Game Boy Advance games allowed for link cable trading, just without requiring multiple systems and games.
Since the internet is now pretty standard in our daily lives, the Pokémon Bank app replaced direct trading as a method of getting all of those critters into the latest Pokémon title. Its functionality was mostly retained to the 3DS, though. With the release of the Switch, something a little more robust was necessary. This is where Pokémon Home enters.
Home is a replacement for Bank, just with no specific platform in mind. While it won’t work with all past Pokémon games, Game Freak is prepping this as the future for where you’ll store your captured monsters. Sword and Shield are set to have full integration with Home and even the Let’s Go titles will work with them. It’s really just a change in name, more than anything.
Since Sword and Shield are set to receive DLC expansions soon, those new Pokémon will work with Home. In a nice touch, gamers that opt to not buy the expansions will be able to trade and store these new Pokémon without spending extra. That’s a great way to catch them all if you’re a frugal trainer.
It’s a little silly how Game Freak isn’t talking more with a release only a month away, but I guess we’ll just need to be patient.
Source: Destructoid
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