 Hey everyone! Oh man, I'm back. It's good to be back. Let's just get right into what we're talking about today. Pokemon home details have been revealed and Pokemon fans aren't happy. And it seems to be for a very specific reason and I almost think the outrage is a little justified. Now you would figure that the Pokemon company would, you know, want to do right by Pokemon fans after all of the backlash of our Pokemon Sword Shield. There's even been some backlash over the DLC which maybe there's something to it. Maybe it's unfounded. That could be a conversation we have but it is something that Pokemon fans are kind of on edge. And they're kind of waiting for Game Freak and the Pokemon company to do something right or justifiable. And we know Pokemon Home was coming for a while. Pokemon Home is basically the replacement for Pokemon Bank. For those who don't know what Pokemon Bank is, just kind of the rough skinny of it is Pokemon Bank is where you put all your various Pokemon from prior Pokemon games. If you want to transfer them between games or trade them online and all that stuff you would use Pokemon Bank. And Pokemon Bank was a subscription service for $5 per year. So pretty cheap and you know you can question if it should even cost anything to be honest. It feels like it should just be an included service but for five bucks a year it's pretty hard to complain. It's like people who kind of justify hey look you know yeah Switch is online isn't the greatest and doesn't have the most amount of features but it's only $20 a year compared to 60. People justify the price point of Switch is online because it's just cheap in comparison to everyone else. Same kind of a Pokemon Bank it's cheap so people kind of just let it go. Pokemon Home is the replacement for that. Pokemon Home essentially does what Pokemon Bank does but it's just new. It's a new version of it built for the new games. Now I'm here on the Nintendo left that has all the details and all the graphs and basically how Pokemon Home works. You see this image here is you can transfer Pokemon from Pokemon let's go EV let's go Pikachu into the bank. You can transfer Pokemon Pokemon Sword or Pokemon Shield into the bank. You can transfer Pokemon from Pokemon Bank into the bank and the bank in this case in Time Out is Pokemon Home and eventually in the future you can't do it yet. You will be able to transfer Pokemon from Pokemon Go into Pokemon Home. It's not coming now when it launches but it'll be available later but Pokemon let's go EV and let's go Pikachu Sword and Shield and Pokemon Pokemon Bank day one will be able to be transferred into Pokemon Home and obviously compatible Pokemon that are part of the Pokedex or the National Dex or whatever inside Sword and Shield can be transferred into there. So even if you don't buy the DLC technically if you have some of those Pokemon that are older Pokemon that were added through the DLC you can actually transfer them from let's go EV let's go Pikachu or your Pokemon Bank eventually Pokemon Go as well into Sword and Shield without ever buying the DLC so that is something there you can also obviously trade for them and all that jazz. Pokemon Home is basically Pokemon Bank just a new version and that's fine there's actually a free version of it and then like a tiered pay system and this is where things get really weird and this is why people get mad and now they're adding GTS which lets you specify which Pokemon you want to trade and which Pokemon you want to receive this is something that isn't part of Sword and Shield at all so this is really cool it's been part of Pokemon Bank for a bit so again Pokemon Home is kind of fixing all the issues with trades and transferring Pokemon between the current Pokemon games and future Pokemon games and even letting you bring in your older Pokemon games as well from Bank but here's the thing it has plans it has a basic and a premium and even the premium is a tiered system but here is how the plans work for basic you do not get the ability to move Pokemon from Pokemon Bank basic is the free version by the way so like free to try free to use or whatever don't pay anything so you can't move any of your old Pokemon Pokemon Bank you want to do that you need the premium one you can only deposit 30 Pokemon in the basic version but 6000 in the premium one there's a really huge disparity in my opinion but that is what it is number of Pokemon that we placed in the wonder box at once is 3 10 for premium I don't know if that that's necessarily too controversial I think the number of Pokemon you can deposit and Pokemon Bank that that to me is a little weird number of Pokemon that can be placed in the GTS at once is 1 compared to 3 again I don't think that's big deal in order to get into a room and trade you could participate as basic you could host and participate as premium you can't judge anything in basic but you can in premium as well some of this stuff isn't that big a deal to me I think one to three three to ten I don't think that's too big of a deal even the room the room participate and host thing I don't know that that's a huge deal but there are other things that you can't move from bank for free you have to pay money to do that you knew they were probably gonna pay while that but it is what it is the question obviously is how much is the paywall well according to Nintendo live Pokemon home will be available on a free plan or a premium plan premium plan will cost $299 for a 30-day subscription $499 for a 90-day description now remember it was $5 for Pokemon Bank for a year so $5 for only 90 days or $15.99 for an annus subscription so it's increasing by over three times the amount for a year that's $4 less than Nintendo Switch Online let that sink in Nintendo Switch Online which affects multiple games on Nintendo Switch is $20 a year the singular service for Pokemon that only affects Pokemon $16 a year remember it's essentially Pokemon Bank a new version of it Pokemon makes $5 a year you can see why Pokemon fans are pretty upset now we need to give game freaking the Pokemon Company a little credit there is one silver lining in this the first month of Pokemon Home premium will be free so they are kind of giving you Pokemon fans a month to get all your Pokemon off Pokemon Bank and get it into premium the problem you're gonna have of course is that you're only allowed to store 30 Pokemon if you drop down to basic so like if you store all these you know thousands or hundreds of Pokemon from Pokemon Bank into Pokemon Home then you don't pay for premium I don't know what happens I don't know if the Pokemon just go away if they're locked and you can't access them you can only access the first 30 you put in I don't really know so it's kind of this weird thing where like if you transfer all your stuff in that free month from Pokemon Bank you're still gonna have to pay for premium anyway to do anything with the Pokemon after that first month so it's kind of they get you they get you one way or another basically if you take advantage of the free month to move your Pokemon from Pokemon Bank you probably have more than 30 Pokemon to move which means you're gonna need to pay for premium after that month so it's just it's just a it's kind of a gotcha scheme you know hey we're doing something nice but you're still gonna have to pay anyways so yeah forget you and I don't believe you can transfer back into Pokemon Bank so what's the potential out of Pokemon make they're just out of Pokemon Bank so that that's another thing as well to consider but you have to understand why this is kind of kind of upsetting for Pokemon fans and as someone like me who doesn't have all these Pokemon to transfer because I haven't been playing all the games over the years I feel you I could still feel the pain because $16 that's I mean $4 less than Tennis with Childhood Service is just $16 over the grand scheme of a year isn't that much I mean if we're being completely honest it's what a little over a dollar per month like maybe a dollar 50 per month or less like it's not like it's a super expensive thing and some people are gonna be like who really cares but it's about the principle of the fact that you're going from $5 to $16 and $16 is $4 less than a service Nintendo provides that affects multiple games and adds more functionality including all these free you know quote unquote free SNES and NES games so we're kind of left in this conundrum where Pokemon home is priced way out of what the marketplace has been set at $5 and $20 it's not that high end and it doesn't make any sense to me even if it was priced at $10 that's a 2x increase which again doesn't sit right it feels like Pokemon home which is Pokemon bank should just be $5 I think they're trying to justify it because now Pokemon games cost 60 so not only are you guys paying 20 extra dollars per game now compared to what you used to just to have Pokemon games basically an HD that's kind of like the big thing so if you get both games you're paying $40 extra per generation which is the cost of what a third game would be on 3ds now you have to pay 3x the price for the same service you can see what Pokemon fans are pretty outraged and I'm right there with them because I think personally this should be a free service anyways they want to promote all this cross connectivity across games it should just be included with the purchase of the game but it's not it is cool that you are able to access it on mobile phones and you know do everything you can on mobile phones the same on your switch or whatever and that makes sense since they're including Pokemon Go but I still think it's still this it's just not a bad look at a time when the Pokemon company and Game Freak could use some positive publicity again it's just another dropping of the ball and the thing is I actually think the DLC plans for DLC on the whole instead of releasing new games is actually a positive for them I think that's a good thing I think that's the better direction than releasing you know two more $60 games but again because people are already mad at Sword and Shield they found a way to criticize that as well and this is just an easy criticism it's way too expensive and they need to change the pricing structure but they're not going to and if you're going to stick with Pokemon Long Hall you're going to be strong harmed into paying an extra 16 bucks a year so this is unfortunate what's happening to Pokemon I think you know I think that this kind of thing's been happening with Pokemon for quite some time but it's really coming to head in this switch generation with Pokemon that the Pokemon company and Game Freak I've probably more on the Pokemon company in this case it's just greedy they're just super greedy and they're milking you guys for every penny you have and they just don't care and I wonder if the success of Pokemon Go which by the way I love Pokemon Go I think it's a really good application and I think Niantic has done a fantastic job updating it and making it better and better it is it is very close to what was promised at the start now and I think it's ultimately a really neat experience I think what happened is they saw the money roll in in the billions yes billions with that game into their pockets and they're like hey how else can we make more and more money off our fans so they're doing it I'm wondering when they're going to just fully go micro transaction city in a mainline Pokemon game how far away are we from them doing that or is Nintendo not going to let that happen maybe Nintendo's pull with the console games will be like hey you can't do that so maybe Nintendo's blocking that from happening I don't know but they're finding other ways to nickel and dime you guys over a 3x increase for the same service I don't know about that even if it even if it's a massively improved interface and everything is just better I mean 3x the price for the exact same service I am not thinking that's going to fly very well but you know you guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below because I so desperately want some positivity behind Pokemon and once I finally get my hand on Sword and Shield because I am going to play it eventually here maybe I'll be able to provide a positive spin because maybe I end up really enjoying my time with the game as I have seen some others really enjoy their time with the game so maybe then when I can reflect back on and be like well you know despite all the criticism honestly maybe I really enjoyed it and that's something we can cross when I get to that point but for right now I think the Pokemon company just needs some positivity and some good buzz maybe they need to drop a trailer for Detective Pikachu 2 now um since that was one thing that went really well for them of late so I don't know um I am Nate Jantz 6 for Twitter and subscribe for more content it's great to be back and hey you know what um why don't you hit that bell icon so you get notified of all future streams and videos uh sorry for the absence over the last you know 12 13 days or whatever a couple 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