Pokemon Sleep presents itself as a smartphone app that listens to you during the night to set your “resting rhythm” and provides a bunch of statistics to help you sleep better. By way of staging, a bucolic island where a good big Snorlax sleeps, master of the place. Depending on whether you spend more or less time on the pillow, you will be classified as Ptidodo, Bondodo or Grododo. This will define which Pokémon come to join you on the island. For example, the experts of the micro-nap will greet Chenipan and Bulbizarre while the heavyweights of the ronpiche will rather cross Pichu and Carapuce. We will also meet Professor Neroli, an expert in Pokémon sleep. Use regularly Pokemon Sleep will refine the analysis of the software and unlock new “dodo styles” for the creatures on the island.
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But since a Pokémon product never comes without monetization, the Japanese firm offers a companion gadget, the Pokémon Go Plus +. No, your faithful servant did not have an aneurysm when writing the name, it is indeed the official name of this small box in the shape of a Pokéball capable of connecting to your mobile via Bluetooth low consumption. On Pokemon Sleep, it is used to get rid of screens in the evening and when waking up. Pressing the button activates tracking, then turns it off in the early morning. A Pikachu voice box can even rock you with its sweet rodent voice. And on Pokémon Go, once awake, this gadget will automate the sending of Pokéballs while walking. Who would have thought that the first firm to gamify our entire daily life would be the Pokémon Company? (Well, for the more cynical among us, that was to be expected.)
Pokemon Sleep is expected on iOS or Android for this summer, provided it does not have a wake-up failure.