Summary
There are tons of games that connect withPokemon Home, the subscription service that lives up to its name as fans can store as many different Pokemon as they desire within its servers. On top of that,Homecan connect to numerous different titles, including being able to freely transfer creatures back and forth between many of the morerecent Switch games.Pokemon Sleep, however, is not one of them.
The fact that players can’t transfer creatures to and fromPokemon Sleephas irritated a few fans, which may be founded in how players have been able to expect some sort of transfer and preservation of their pocket monster partners in several games for decades in a row. EvenPokemon GOhas connectivity withHome, and now its cousin,Sleep, is left out of the complete package. However, it actually makes sense thatPokemon Sleepdoesn’t connect with home as it’s a completely different title to the other titles with the subscription service.
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Pokemon Sleep’s Pokemon Are Helpers, Not Fighters
InPokemon Sleep, the objective isn’t to battle other critters against each other. Instead, players are enlisted to help a Snorlax get the best sleep it can to help Professor Neroli understand the greater scope of how pocket monsters doze, snooze, and slumber. While fans can collect a team of Pokemon to help accomplish this goal, their job is to gather berries and ingredients to helpraise Snorlax’s strength. This strength is for its Drowsy Power rather than battling.
As a result, the critters that help fans out every day aren’t exactly made for fighting as it stands, and transferring them would likely require generating move sets and stats to these Pokemon, which may be extra work for Niantic and Select Button. While there are ways, such as adding specific special IDs to each creature that helps them gain the moves when transferred, it’s not entirely worth it whenPokemon Sleepis meant to encourage habitsover anything else.
Pokemon Spin Off Games Usually Don’t Have Transfer Features
Some fans who weren’t asking forPokemon Homeconnectivity may be confused as to why such a feature was expected fromPokemon Sleepof all games as even though it has features that encourage players to check on it throughout the day, it’s still just a sleep-tracking app. However, considering thatSleephas a rather close relationship withPokemon GO, from being connected through features to Niantic taking a development role with both games, fans may have expected atie-in toPokemon Homefrom there.
From that perspective, it’s somewhat understandable as to why the feature may have been expected, but it forgets whySleepended up being a stand-alone game where transferring Pokemon from it made no sense. As much asPokemon GOchanged the gamein terms of what players could expect from Home considerably, it is only an exception and not the rule.
Niantic’s AR mobile app is currently the only spin-off title that offers connection toPokemon Home.The only spin-off games that offered transfer features to where players could take their catches with them was theColosseumtitles, and even then the creatures needed to be Purified to be sent to any other games. Other titles such asPokemon ChannelandPokemon RangerdistributedMythical Pokemon, but that was as far as it went.
As incredible as it is that players can transfer critters they catch during their day-to-day lives and put them inPokemon Home, the same doesn’t exactly need to be said for the creatures fans work with for their sleep research with Snorlax. It may upset a few completionists andShiny Huntersthat that their rare finds may be gone if the game ever shuts down, but there will be many more opportunities in other games down the line.
Pokemon Sleepis available now on Android and iOS devices.
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