The Pokémon Company announced several new Pokémon projects, including Pokémon Sleep, Pokémon Home, and Pokémon Masters at the Pokémon 2019 Press Conference, held on the 28th and streamed live: you can watch it here.
Pokémon Home
Pokémon Home will be a Pokémon cloud-storage service similar to Pokémon Bank, connecting several games, including Pokémon Go, Pokémon Bank, and Pokémon Sword & Shield.
Compatible software
The service will also be available on smartphones and will allow trades between users.
Pokémon Sleep and Pokémon Go Plus Plus
After Pokémon Go turned walking into entertainment, Select Button (which developed Magikarp Jump) wants to turn sleeping into entertainment with the Pokémon Sleep app.
Not much was revealed about the game beyond its title, but it will be compatible with Pokémon Go Plus Plus, a new device that is an improved version of the Pokémon Go Plus. Besides working like its predecessor, it will detect your sleep and send information to smartphones via Bluetooth.
To celebrate the announcement, Snorlax are appearing more frequently in Pokémon Go.
Detective Pikachu for Switch
After the Detective Pikachu game for 3DS ended on a cliffhanger, the story will be completed in a new game for Nintendo Switch, with a different conclusion from the one shown in the film Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.
Pokémon Masters
Pokémon Masters is a smartphone game that lets players recruit trainers from all the franchise's main games and use them in battles. All Gym Leaders and Champions will be present, along with protagonists and other trainers.
Art by Ken Sugimori promoting the game
There are indications that the game will follow a gacha style, like Fire Emblem Heroes.
Pokémon Shirts
Going beyond games, Pokémon Shirts were announced: a customizable social-shirt brand with versions representing all 150 original Pokémon.
Some design examples
There is a website where they can be ordered and customized by mixing pieces with different patterns, and all the shirts can be seen on the brand's Instagram. However, the service is currently available only in some regions of Asia, although there are plans to expand it.
And Pokémon Sword & Shield?
There was no news about Pokémon Sword & Shield, because it was set aside for the Pokémon Direct on June 5, which will be exclusively about that game. In other words, the Pokémon 2019 Press Conference was devoted to projects that had not yet been announced and would not be overshadowed by new games in the main series.
The Direct will take place at 10 a.m. Brasília time.
