Pokemon Unite announces global shutdown, China server closing January 28, 2027

Pokemon Unite announced a global shutdown on October 27, with the China mainland server closing at 11:00 Beijing time on January 28, 2027 and other regions at 00:00 UTC on March 23, 2027, across Switch and mobile. Top-ups and new registrations in China stopped the same day, unused paid currency can be exchanged for benefits in Tencent titles such as Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile, and the international server closed its top-up channel. The MOBA, co-developed by Tencent's TiMi and The Pokemon Company, launched on Switch in July 2021 and on mobile that September, and in July 2025 the official side said global downloads had passed 200 million.