Pokémon HOME to launch in February 2020 - New screenshots, and Infographic

The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo announced more details for the new cloud service app Pokémon HOME. The app enables Trainers to continue their Pokémon adventures beyond a single game system and manage their collection of Pokémon across many of their games. Pokémon HOME will launch in February 2020 for iOS and Android devices as well as Nintendo Switch.

[TorpeAlex]

"There are plans to support Pokemon Go in the future as well"

Aaaand I'm out. See y'all in 8-12 months probably.

[andydalum]

That is disappointing for me as well since I never had the pokemon bank when I was younger to have my collection but I have played pokemon go since launch and it would have been nice to be able to move things from it into pokemon home.

[aarogree]

But why a subscription?

[Vits]

Well, because they like money.

[ZeekQuattro]

Why does any for profit company charge for it's services?

[Sono421]

You're completely ignoring it's incredibly anti-consumer pricing scheme. Google drive provides 15GB completely FOR FREE, that's enough online storage to hold all Pokemon like 1,000 times each! Obviously those aren't exact figures but it just goes to show that charging so much for mere megabits of data is absurd. Or if you want to compare it to a videogame competitor Playstation Plus gives us 100 GB for online storage, and yes I know PS plus costs $60 a year vs Pokemon Home's $15 a year, but PS plus also gives you two ENTIRE GAMES every month, plus online of course.

Even compared to Nintendo's own online service it's a scam, it's hard to look up but supposedly they allow up to 32GB for their cloud saves included with their online subscription which is $20 a year, that is more than enough to save literally every single pokemon, not to mention you get NES, and SNES games, and the ability to play online (Even though their online is awful) that is a WAY better deal than paying $15 a year literally just for megabits of data!

Each Pokemon is roughly 3mb's of data making them VERY low cost to save every one, the cost per data ratio is so unbelievably high it's a pure scam.

[ZeekQuattro]

@ Sono421I'm not ignoring anything. They're a business. A greedy one at that so my question stands. They charged for Bank. No surprise they charged for another service.

[Sono421]

So... a greedy scam is okay as long as it's in pursuit of profit? Is that really the precedent you want to set? Well i'd love to hear your opinion on microtransactions..

[-Foxtrot]

$15.99? And this is on top of the subscription for Nintendo online...

[Nebaku]

Too bad they're forcing you to buy this completely optional app that has free functionality too!

[-Foxtrot]

Sigh...not the point

This is where greed starts and deep down, after seeing the countless wave of shit that's grew worse over the past decade alone, you know it.

[andydalum]

I mean if your someone who has used pokemon bank in the past (I'm not one of them) and have kept your pokemon to have a living dex or competitive pokemon with egg moves or perfect shiny pokemon you have breed you don't have an option if you want to keep them. Not to mention the fact that this service does seem to be very steep but they can get away with it because the player base of Pokémon has no other option to keep all their work up until this point. I am only interested in the function of putting pokemon from let's go into pokemon home and pokemon go but i think it's a slap in the face to charge someone more who has supported your games for years.

[Christopher]

If you're paying for the game, how is any of the functionality free? There's literally a price point to access those functions.

[DragonWarrior19]

You do realize that The Pokemon Company and Nintendo are not the same company, right? Pokemon Home has nothing to do with Nintendo besides being on the Switch.

[-Foxtrot]

What's that got to do with anything?

You'll still need both if you want to do things like receiving ranked match battle details from Pokemon Sword/Shield.

[SpeedDemon]

@Fox
Umm everything?
You're criticizing Nintendo for the actions of a 2nd party developer.

[Xaevi]

I'd say that I'm glad there's at least a free option, but 15 dollars a year is completely unnecessary. Also they take longer than a year to release this and it doesn't support Go, will probably take another year for it to. Tell me again how Pokemon is for kids.

[Elronza]

I warned everyone I could that Gamefreak was going to nickel and dime Pokemon, until it cost over $100 for the full experience, of one game. Sadly I've been proven right, with the price of the expansion pass and Pokemon Home on top of the base game. Base game $59.99+ expansion pass $29.99+ pokemon home $16.99='s over $100. Oh yeah and another $49.99 for the Pokeball plus in order to get Mew.