Poké Bank release delayed By charizardman283

By @charizardman283
POSTED: 27 Dec 2013 20:05
CATEGORY: Gaming
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After indefinitely delaying Flipnote Studio 3D, Nintendo has probably learned how to better manage release dates, right?

Wrong.

Effective today, Poké Bank is being delayed indefinitely in North America and Europe, and has been completely disabled and pulled from the eShop in Japan. Here's a direct quote from Nintendo.

"Nintendo and The Pokemon Company International have postponed the launch of Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter - two software applications that were originally scheduled to launch for Nintendo 3DS on Dec. 27 - due to a large volume of traffic to the Nintendo Network service. Due to the high traffic, players are having trouble setting up Nintendo Network IDs and downloading content in the Nintendo eShop on both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. We truly regret the inconvenience, and wish to reassure everyone that providing a solution is our top priority. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your continued patience."

As you can see here, Nintendo's servers are having difficulties across all platforms, which the website specifically states is due to high traffic beginning on Christmas morning, so it could be to avoid any data loss during a transfer, which wouldn't be good at all, and the backlash might be worse in the end.

So everyone who has Pokémon X/Y and was expecting to transfer (myself included); hang in there. The delay is probably due to the server overload caused by all the new Wii U's and 3DS's that were received over Christmas. It'll probably be released after the huge amount of holiday traffic subsides, and then you'll be able to transfer your Pokémon.

Hope everyone had an otherwise great Christmas!

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Hylianzombie234
30 Dec 2013 18:06

This isn't the first time that any servers have been over loaded, anytime that any company has a jump in usage connected to the internet it usually happens, that kind of stuff is unexpected.

LaZerWoLF
28 Dec 2013 20:29

See? Proof of bankruptcy.

Waffle King
28 Dec 2013 03:20

We've been selling craptons of Wii U's at my store. More than PS4's (because we have none in stock) and Xbone's (because no one wants them), so I'd expect some heavy traffic on Nintendo's servers.

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Monstercat
28 Dec 2013 04:14
In reply to Waffle King

As much as I hate to say this, both the Xbone and the PS4 are selling WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than the Wii U.

Waffle King
28 Dec 2013 04:57
In reply to Monstercat

I'm just talking about my store.

Monstercat
28 Dec 2013 16:52
In reply to Waffle King

"I'd expect some heavy traffic on Nintendo's servers."

YOUR STORE MUST BE HUUUUUGE

Waffle King
28 Dec 2013 23:13
In reply to Monstercat

THE BIGGEST.

MaxiMillion
29 Dec 2013 02:20
In reply to Waffle King

Can I come over and buy a Xbone? :>

Waffle King
29 Dec 2013 03:04
In reply to MaxiMillion

No, your kind is not allowed.

spideer
28 Dec 2013 01:55

Miiverse won't work either

Monstercat
28 Dec 2013 00:20

It's interesting how the Miiverse service is working just fine, then. Because if the eShop is down due to server "overload", wouldn't Miiverse be down as well? I mean, I'm sure the kiddies that got their 3DS for Christmas were also checking out Miiverse too, so why isn't THAT overloaded?

GuitarGodAnth
28 Dec 2013 01:12
In reply to Monstercat

You need to be able to connect to the System Update servers to be able to gain access to Miiverse first.

charizardman283
28 Dec 2013 00:46
In reply to Monstercat

The eShop was not actually down when I wrote this, but a little googling says that the eShop will just be down until 4AM.

Looking on their Facebook page, they said that they're juggling between keeping some servers up and some servers down to keep up with the load by allocating resources to less individual regions at once.

Poké Bank release delayed

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