After you have walked the players to hunt for the virtual creatures, the Pokémon will now push them to sleep. During a press conference on 29 may, the Pokémon Company has announced a new fun application, and a new accessory is connected. Scheduled for 2020, Pokémon Sleep will be based on the sleep time and probably the quality of it to make a game of it. The application will work via the “Pokémon Gb Plus +”, an accessory connected to place under his pillow, that will capture the player’s movements during sleep using an accelerometer. The device is a more advanced version of the “Pokemon Gb More”, another connected object released in 2016, to be used with the application Pokémon Gb. This bracelet indicated the presence of Pokémon in the vicinity the aid of vibration. The new model will all the features of its predecessor.
The logo of Pokémon Sleep pokémon
If you don’t know how the application will work in practice, Tsunekazu Ishihara, CEO of the firm to pocket monsters, has indicated that Pokémon Sleep “will encourage players to get up in the morning” in “transforming the sleep into something entertaining.” No link between Pokémon Sleep and Pokémon GB has not been announced, but these gateways are likely to occur.
The new application is part of a more comprehensive strategy that aims to promote Pokémon as a video game sound. At its release in summer 2016, the application of augmented-reality Pokémon GB had encouraged the players to leave their homes and walk miles to hunt for creatures. After the physical exercise, it is the sleep, which is added to the equation. “By encouraging players to go out and do some sport, we hope to promote a healthier lifestyle and have a positive impact on our players and on the world,” said during the press conference John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, a company that developed Pokemon Gb and was working with Nintendo on the accessory of Pokémon Sleep.
With Pokémon to Sleep and it’s accessory “Pokémon Gb Plus +”, the Pokémon Company wants to use the data related to the sleep. The Pokémon Company / Nintendo / Niantic other games and apps to come
functions related to sleep are not the only advertisements to be learned from the conference of the Pokémon Company. The firm will, for instance, to surf on the success of the film Detective Pikachu : the next adventures of the investigator yellow will land on the Switch, the console hybrid with Nintendo (no date or details for the moment). This last was the subject of a first game on 3DS, the previous handheld console from the firm, in 2016 in Japan and in march 2018 in the West. Another title, on a smartphone this time, will soon be declared: Pokémon Masters , which will include famous characters from the franchise. Information are to be expected for June. Finally, Pokémon Home will allow players to manage their collection of Pokémon coming from the different episodes of the series (be it on 3DS, on Switch or on smartphones via the cloud. Its launch is planned for 2020 on iOS, Android and on the console hybrid with Nintendo.
