"[Megathread] Pokemon Press Conference, May 28 9pm ET!"

The Pokémon Company hosted a press conference about “Pokémon Business Strategy” at 9pm ET May 28/1am UTC May 29. This thread will serve as our hub for the event!You can watch a recording of the conference here!Recap from Pokemon.comAnd our unofficial recap of major announcements:A new mobile game, Pokemon Masters, is being introduced, and will feature characters from past games.Gameplay footage shows dialogue and battles with Blue, Cynthia, Misty, and others.The game is releasing "in calendar year 2019."More details are coming in June!A new application, Pokemon Home, will connect Pokemon Bank, Pokemon Go, the Let's Go titles and the Generation 8 games via cloud storage!It will also feature trading functions via smartphoneLaunching in early 2020A large sleep-related initiative has been announced, with several components...A new game, Pokemon Sleep, is being introduced, developed by the team behind Magikarp Jump. The details of the game remain unclear, but it will evidently connect sleeping with in-game rewards.A new device called the "Pokemon GO Plus +," is being introduced as well. It functions as a Pokemon Go Plus as well as a sleep tracker."Sleeping Snorlax" are being introduced to Pokemon GO. Few details were revealed beyond that about what this means, but evidently the sleeping Pokemon will begin appearing in-game almost immediately.A Detective Pikachu game installment is coming to the Nintendo Switch! https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1133539944691933184Pokemon Quest is getting an official release in China c/o NetEase. The Chinese release will add PvP and a social system! It's unclear if these changes will come to other areas yet. 1.7 million players have "preregistered" for the game's release.The conference is being given in Japanese, English and Chinese. "Going forward, we plan to deliver more of our services to fans who are native speakers of Chinese.""Pokemon Shirts" featuring the original 150 Pokemon, which have already been released in Japan and elsewhere, are being released more widely around the world. More details will evidently come later, but the ordering site is here: Pokemon Shirts order siteA new Pokemon Center shop is opening in Japan in late 2019, with a different, darker design than other Centers past via /r/pokemon http://bit.ly/2QAsOza