The Pokémon Company has announced the next step in its augmented reality gaming future with a new direction: Pokémon Sleep, a game with the ambitious aim of turning “sleep into entertainment.”
Sleep will work by recording when players go to bed, wake, and how long they’re sleeping. According to the Guardian, the game will be accompanied by a hardware element, known as the Pokémon Plus+ (“plus plus”).
In what was an extremely wide-ranging press conference, the company went on to announce a suite of further projects in the works. These included a Nintendo Switch console game based on the new movie, Detective Pikachu, which is also yet to launch (Nintendo part-owns the Pokémon Company).
Other ideas point to an agnosticism about the particular device on which the Pokémon experience will exist: Pokémon HOME is 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.” This takes in other new games that it has announced for the Switch console: the more traditional role-playing Sword and Shield games.
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