‘Soon’
Buried near the endofthe recent Pokemon Presents presentationwas aPokemon Home confirmation. It was confirmed for both Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, and there will be “upcoming announcements with further details.”
All three games will be coming toHomesometime in 2022, which is a pretty large window there! It’s important to note thatPokemon Diamond/Pearlwill have it particularly rough, as it needs to wait the full allotted time for the 2022 rollout, despite the fact that it actually arrives in November.
While I totally get that there are logistical and foundational repercussions to making this system work,it is a paid service(if you want to get anything useful out of it). Not having it at launch forPearl/Diamondfans is a bit of a feel-bad moment.
Then there’s always the argument for pacing. Some folks don’t really like havingPokemon Homeearly because it dilutes the pool of creatures, having people bring in their max level characters and all sorts of min-maxed meta-defining fighters in very early. DelayingHomeso that theDiamond/Pearlremake meta can blossom into its own thing makes sense.
In any case, Game Freak and The Pokemon Company haven’t been the best at rolling outPokemon Homefeatures as a whole. Here’s hoping by the timeLegendsis out that everything goes smoothly.
