Two new Pokémon-branded smartphone games will be arriving in 2020, Pokémon Sleep and Pokémon Home, along with a trading cloud platform arriving later this year.
According to a press conference held by The Pokémon Company today in Tokyo, president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara billed Pokémon Sleep as a mobile game where you play by sleeping. Your sleep will affect gameplay, with the company saying that it wants to give players a reason to look forward to waking up in the morning.
Pokémon Sleep is scheduled to release sometime in 2020.
Tying into that, there’s also a new sleep-tracking device in the works, the Pokémon GO+, that will send sleep data to your iPhone through Bluetooth. However, little is known about this device other that it will work with the popular Pokémon GO augmented reality game which will receive gameplay updates designed around sleep and rest.
The Verge notes that Pokémon is also getting a robust new cloud service.
Dubbed Pokémon Home, it’ll serve as the centralized place to not only manage but trade as well your creatures captured in various games like “Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!”, “Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!”, “Pokémon GO” and the upcoming “Pokémon Sword” and “Pokémon Shield” games for the Nintendo Switch console.
The service is launching in early 2020 for iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch.
Other notable announcements include Pokémon Masters, the next mobile game in the series launching later this year. Created in partnership with DeNA, Masters will feature many of the most notable trainers from past Pokémon games. It’s expected to launch later this year.
Nintendo also showed off an adaptation of the Nintendo 3DS game Detective Pikachu for its own Switch console. There will be a new ending, but that’s all we know so far. Last but not least, Nintendo will be putting on a Direct showcase on June 5 at 9am ET focused on the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games for the Switch console.
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