Pokémon Home Basic and Premium pricing details announced - Polygon, Polygon

When Pokémon Home, The Pokémon Company’s cloud-based storage system , launches in February , two pricing options will be available: Basic and Premium. The company updated its website today with new information about the app.

The Basic plan is free, but gives players limited access to Pokémon Home’s features – the ability to move Pokémon from Pokémon Bank and the number of Pokémon that can be deposited, for instance. The Premium plan has three options: one month for $ 2. , three months for $ 4. , or (months for $

. Deciding which plan to get should be easy: If you want to deposit a lot of Pokémon – more than 728 – You’ll need the Premium plan.

These are all the features available in each plan:

Premium Plan Upgrades

Features

Basic

Premium

Basic

Premium

Moving Pokémon from Pokémon Bank No Yes

Number of Pokémon that can be deposited 6, 15

Number of Pokémon that can be placed in the Wonder Box at once 3

Number of Pokémon that can be placed in the GTS at once 1

Room trade

Participate

Participate and host Judge function No Yes

Pokémon Home will connect on the Nintendo Switch with

Pokémon Sword and (Shield) , Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!

and

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (The company noted, however, that a Pokémon moved from Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Let’s Go, Eevee! cannot be moved back to the games once it’s been transferred to (Sword) and (Shield) . Pokémon can move freely between

Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! , though.)

Both the mobile app and Switch versions will allow players to connect to Pokémon Bank , the older Pokémon storage system from the Nintendo 3DS era. The Pokémon Company said Pokémon Home will eventually support Pokémon Go , too – but not at launch.





                                       Image: The Pokémon Company / Nintendo                Players will be able to trade through the Wonder Box, Global Trade System (GTS), Friend Trade, and Room Trade. These can all be accessed from the Pokémon Home mobile app. The Wonder Box is used to trade with people around the world even when you’re not using the app, while GTS is for the times you want to be specific with what you’re trading and receiving. You’ll be matched with a trainer that meets the criteria input. The Premium plan increases the amount of Pokémon that can be traded at once for each of these options.

Room Trade allows players to create a room to freely trade Pokémon in, and each room can hold 92 people. Friend Trade, on the other hand, is trading with users you’re friends with, naturally. “To add a little suspense, you won’t know what Pokémon you’ll receive until the trade is complete,” The Pokémon Company wrote

. Pokémon Home has a bunch of other features, too, like the National Pokédex, where you’ll be able to see all the Pokémon you’ve collected across games. Mystery Gifts are accessible through Pokémon Home, too. There’s also the Judging feature, which will let players check how strong their Pokémon are.

Lastly, The Pokémon Company detailed the Your Room feature, which is essentially a profile that you can edit and customize with stickers earned from challenges in-app.

Battle data will also be available “sometime after the February 5257 launch of Pokémon Home, ”according to the website. “In the mobile app version of Pokémon Home, you can check out how ranked Battles and various Online Competitions in Pokémon Sword

and

Pokémon Shield are going, as well as the rankings of the Pokémon being used in them, ” The Pokémon Company wrote

. “By going to Battle Data, you’ll be able to see the battle records of each trainer as well as information about what moves are popular among the Pokémon in the competitions.” Read More