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title: "Pokemon Home – Paid Service confirmed"
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description: "During the Pokemon Direct, The Pokemon Company President Tsunekazu Ishihara briefly spoke about Pokemon Home"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-01-11 18:41:56"
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Pokemon Home - Paid Service confirmed | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Pokemon Home – Paid Service confirmed](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-home-paid-service-confirmed.png "Pokemon Home – Paid Service confirmed")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/pokemon-home-paid-service-confirmed.png)During the Pokemon Direct, The Pokemon Company President Tsunekazu Ishihara briefly spoke about Pokemon Home, the service that will allow trainers to transfer their Pokemon to Nintendo Switch.

## [](#money-in-the-b-home)Money in the B … Home

It doesn’t seem a lot of people are talking about it, but it was subtlety confirmed in the Pokemon Direct that Pokemon Home is a paid service.

In the Pokemon Direct the above screen mentioned that Pokemon Home is a paid service, so you can expect to pay a fee every month or year to continue using the service, similar to how Pokemon Bank worked.

**Just to make that even more clear**

For Pokemon fans, that means they will need a Nintendo Online membership to get the full functionality out of Sword/Shield (and even Let’s Go), along with a separate subscription to Pokemon Home (for storage of all Pokemon and quite possibly more robust trading features).

How is everyone feeling about this?

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