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In a press conference ahead of E3 2019, The Pokemon Company has announced a new cloud-based service for Nintendo Switch. Called Pokemon Home, the service will allow you to transfer Pokemon from all current Pokemon games–including Pokemon Go and the upcoming Pokemon Sword and Shield–to the cloud.

Longtime Pokemon game director Junichi Masuda took the stage to detail the service. You’ll be able to transfer Pokemon from Pokemon Go, Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee, Pokemon Sword and Shield, and Pokemon Bank on 3DS into Pokemon Home. According to a graphic shown during the conference, you’ll also be able to transfer Pokemon from Home into Sword and Shield. This is much like how Pokemon Bank works; you’re allowed a one-way transfer from older games, and from the cloud, you can transfer those Pokemon into the newest game (Sword and Shield in this case). If that’s indeed how it works, it means you’ll be able to transfer your shiny Pokemon from Go and Let’s Go into Sword and Shield.

Masuda added that you’ll be able to trade Pokemon from within Home as long as you have a smartphone with you. The details are vague, but you’ll apparently be able to use your phone to trade Pokemon locally and globally, both with friends and with others, so long as those Pokemon have been transferred to Pokemon Home.

Pokemon Home is set to launch in early 2020 for iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch; Pokemon Sword and Shield are set for a late 2019 launch. The Pokemon Company did not detail whether a Nintendo Switch Online subscription will be required to use the service.

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A brand-new Pokemon game has been announced. Pokemon Masters is a new mobile game developed by DeNA in partnership with Nintendo and The Pokemon Company. The game is set to launch in 2019 for Android and iOS.

Pokemon Masters is “a new game that allows you to battle alongside your favorite Pokemon Trainers from the main series RPGs.”

The idea for Pokemon Masters came from Game Freak’s Ken Sugimori, who thought it would be fun for a Pokemon game to feature all of the past and present Pokemon Trainers from the game series.

“Pokemon Masters enables players to experience a new type of Pokemon battling on the go and features many famous Pokemon Trainers from the long history of Pokemon video games,” reads a line from the game’s official announcement. “Gameplay will be optimized for smart devices for a casual but uniquely Pokemon experience.”

More details on Pokemon Masters will come in June, The Pokemon Company said.

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As part of the Pokemon 2019 Press Conference today, a wacky-sounding new Pokemon app called Pokemon Sleep was announced. Seriously. The Pokemon Company and Nintendo are working together to try to “turn sleep into entertainment.”

Pokemon Sleep is launching in 2020, and The Pokemon Company joked that “several Snorlax were consulted on this.”

“Pokemon Sleep aims to turn sleeping into entertainment by having a player’s time spent sleeping, and the time they wake up, effect the gameplay,” reads a line from the app’s official description.

More details about the specific functionality of the app are being saved for a later date.

Nintendo is working on a new peripheral called the Pokemon Go Plus Plus. That is actually its name. The idea is that you’ll sleep with the new peripheral and it’ll monitor your sleep patterns, apparently. The device has an “embedded accelerometer” that can track how you sleep and then beam it to your phone.

“This new device also has the same functions as the original Pokemon Go Plus, so Trainers can use it with Pokemon Go during the day and with Pokemon Sleep at night,” The Pokemon Company said.

While you have to wait a while longer to experience Pokemon Sleep, Pokemon Go is being updated to introduce some sleeping Snorlax for players to catch. Here is what the Plus Plus looks like:

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A new version of the Nintendo 3DS game Detective Pikachu is coming to Nintendo Switch. The Pokemon Company announced this during its 2019 Press Conference today.

“The details of this game are still a mystery,” reads a line from the company’s announcement. It seems more details will be announced at a later date.

The Switch game will resolve the cliffhanger from the 3DS game, The Pokemon Company said. The ending to the Switch game will be different to the movie starring Ryan Reynolds.

The new Detective Pikachu game for Switch is being developed by Creatures Inc., the Japanese studio that has worked alongside The Pokemon Company on numerous Pokemon games over the years.

It sounds like it’s early days for the new Detective Pikachu game for Switch, as The Pokemon Company said developer Creatures Inc. “has plans to create” the game but it is unclear if development has begun.

In addition to the new Detective Pikachu game for Switch, a sequel to the Detective Pikachu movie is reportedly in the works. That is not a big surprise as the movie was generally well-received and it made a lot of money.

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