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The Pokemon Company held a huge Pokemon Press Conference last night, outlining plenty of its future plans for the series that included several new mobile titles as well as confirmation of a new Detective Pikachu game for the Nintendo Switch.
Confirming 'plans are underway' for the game, details are currently under wraps on specifics, but more information is promised in the near future. The original 3DS mystery adventure game came out last year and of course, spawned the incredibly succesful hit movie.
Announcement 1⃣
Can’t wait to keep sleuthing with #DetectivePikachu? Plans are under way to bring this crime-solving Pikachu to Nintendo Switch!
The details of this game are still a mystery…so keep checking back here for more clues. âš¡ï¸ pic.twitter.com/286PFCGYaR
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 29, 2019
Later on during the conference, the company also announced Pokemon Home – a cloud service app for smartphones that is said to act as a bridge to allow you to connect various Pokemon games, including the upcoming Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield, so it seems this will form a part of transferring your Pokemon from the older games and Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee to the newest games. This is expected to launch 'early 2020' so it may not be around for Pokemon Sword and Shield's launch.
Welcome home, Trainers.
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. #PokemonHOME pic.twitter.com/fAlodMrRzh
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 29, 2019
Also announced were Pokemon Sleep and the Pokemon Go Plus Plus, the former being a curious new sleep tracking app featuring Pokemon that will connect to the latter – an updated piece of hardware that will connect to Pokemon Go.
We’re pleased to announce the development of Pokémon Sleep, a new app from @Pokemon_cojp that tracks a user’s time sleeping and brings a gameplay experience unlike any other!
Several Snorlax were consulted on this, in case you were wondering. #PokemonSleep is coming in 2020. pic.twitter.com/nJ7mJY09Dl
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 29, 2019
Finally, we were given details on that new Pokemon mobile game that was rumoured a few weeks back in partnership with DeNA. Entitled Pokemon Masters, it's said to be based on an idea longtime Pokemon artist Ken Sugimori had which will feature battles against trainers from across the entire Pokemon series timelines. That's expected sometime later this year for iOS and Android.
Announcement 4⃣
Dreaming of becoming a Pokémon master? This is your time!
Get ready for Pokémon Masters, a new game that allows you to battle alongside your favorite Pokémon Trainers from the main series RPGs. #PokemonMasters pic.twitter.com/RNFxswsDFp
— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 29, 2019
Of course, even with all of these announcements, the one thing not covered much was more information on the upcoming Pokemon Sword and Shield, because there's a Nintendo Direct coming on just those two games next week.
