Pokémon Playhouse App Announced

An unexpected new app has been announced called Pokémon Playhouse and is aimed at children 3-5. Some of you, as I have seen on Twitter, are parents so this could be something to give your budding Pokémon fan before they’re able to play a game from the main series!

In Pokémon Playhouse, your child can interact with all kinds of cute Pokémon as they explore various locations, including a tower, lounge, and outdoor playground. Every location within Pokémon Playhouse features activities created just for younger Pokémon fans, such as taking care of Pokémon in the Pokémon Grooming activity, or identifying Pokémon in the night sky in the Search the Stars activity.

Two things I’ll commend the Pokémon Company for doing are offering no in-app purchases to young players and also promising not to collect any personal information from the app. Great move!

We won’t be covering much more about the game going forward since it isn’t aimed at anyone reading the site, but here’s an FYI for those of you with kids!

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285 thoughts on “Pokémon Playhouse App Announced”

  1. Well before I go to bed I must tell you something

    I never knew how creeped out I am over bugs cause I just had to chase a big friggin grasshopper around my house and when I cornered it, I shuddered at it, then when I had it cupped in my hands I was getting squeamish at it

    Well now that it’s gone (I threw it out my front door) I’m saying goodnight

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  2. Know what? As much as I love every last one of you here (with one exception, you know who you are), I feel like I wanna get to know all y’all more. So just drop a random fact or so about yourself here if you don’t mind . It may be fun!

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  3. So let me get this straight: I have to choose between buying Gold/Silver on Amazon to get an exclusive theme but no Celebi code, or going through the eShop to get a standard theme and 2 Celebis? Fun times.

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    • Pretty much. And I am pretty sure the version you get from the eShop changes which theme you get from there so basically you have to get a third one, two of the same one to get everything. It is lame but hey whatever right this is awesome right? No?

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    • Why would Necrozma have a unique one. Sol/Lun/Nec are probably all just one if they have one. But that carrying case is like weird. Doesn’t have enough spaces for every crystal.

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  4. Those three mystery toys apparently aren’t even anything new this whole time? Weird they would be revealed before the 29th like they were supposed to be but eh. It is more odd that they aren’t the new UB that were announced and why they kept them a secret. Oh well that mystery is solved and we still got two actual new things anyways that the toys didn’t hint at.

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  5. And two more mystery items were revealed a while back.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJtvti7WAAI-_im.jpg Plus there is still the “Battle Wheel” mystery thing. But those mystery items don’t necessarily mean anything actually new though sadly. And a pin. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJr5J3iXoAAk9vN.jpg But this one seems unlikely to be anything new. Potentially new Pokeballs too that would be weird though to be honest. And a kid figurine mystery maybe? But is likely not new. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJg-1lRWAAEhH-U.jpg

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  6. I have a synchronize Abra in the first slot, yet the Celebi keeps having random natures. I thought this was impossible with mystery gift?

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  7. Marshadow is #402 in the USUM Alola Dex, Cosmog is #387. I’ll let you do the math, just got out of bed and cba to use my head rn lol

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    • That’d make Lunala #390, and seeing as Necrozma is #400, we have nine Pokemon in between: the seven OG UBs, plus Burst and Assembly.

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      • This also lines up with the number of new Pokémon in the Dex: Cosmog’s new Pokédex number is 98 higher than its SuMo one, meaning there is 98 Pokémon added to the Pokédex before it, whilst it has two new Pokémon after it (not counting anything that goes past Marshadow).

        Seeing as we’ve seen Meinfoo in battle, and that the majority of Pokemon we see in battle during trailers are in the Pokédex, we have 96 open slots for new Pokémon in the Alola Dex. If Ride Mantine isn’t Charizard 2.0 then we can also expect the Mantine and Octillery lines in the new Dex, bringing it down to 92 open slots. If the theories surrounding Island Scan Pokemon becoming part of the Dex are correct, that leaves us with 8 open slots, however removing starters from that puts it at 26 slots.

        Tl;dr only two new Ultra Beasts but a lot more common Pokemon, maybe Alolans

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