[PSA] BANK AND TRANSPORTER ARE LIVE IN NA By charizardman283

By @charizardman283
POSTED: 06 Feb 2014 00:24
CATEGORY: Gaming
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YES, FINALLY!

POKEMON BANK WAS RELEASED EARLIER TODAY IN NORTH AMERICA!

Alright, I'm calming down a little bit. After the wait, it's finally arrived!

Pokémon Bank, as you probably already know, allows you to store Pokémon. You get a free 30-day pass when you first sign up, but afterwards it only costs $5 for a whole year. Beat that, EA. The whole download is ~250 blocks, so be prepared. All in all, you can store up to 3,000 Pokémon in Pokébank, so you don't have to worry about running out of room.

Also available is Poke Transporter, the companion to Pokébank which allows you to transfer from Gen V to Gen VI.

Also, hacked/fabricated Pokémon are just untransferable if they fail a check, which has so far been pretty easy to pass through.

Have a good time transferring one box at a time.

Also, you get a Celebi when you use one of them for the first time!

+10 -3

MaxiMillion
08 Feb 2014 06:39

Does it come with Flipnote Studio 3D?

charizardman283
09 Feb 2014 00:10
In reply to MaxiMillion

Just as soon as Half-Life 3 is released.

SCREECHiNG FLARE
07 Feb 2014 19:15

I already knew that,the Rooster Teeth gaming news stuff had a topic about that.

Samurai Bob
06 Feb 2014 13:41

Trasporter.

charizardman283
06 Feb 2014 18:33
In reply to Samurai Bob

Yeah, I just noticed I wrote that.

jsa005
06 Feb 2014 07:06

It's out in the EU as well, with the same free Celebi / 30 days free offers. I don't have any Pokémon games (yet *fingerscrossed*) but I downloaded Bank because of the cute menu jingle.

Monstercat
06 Feb 2014 01:23

It isn't free? That's a bit disappointing.

I mean, as a Pokemon X owner, for paying $40 for the full game, I'd expect this to be free. I mean, the cost it takes to maintain Pokemon Bank must be negligible, because it's just a few megabytes of data it is actually storing per player (few terabytes for all the players worldwide), maybe a few thousand a month total to maintain power, storage, and maintenance, I estimate. They could've easily paid for maintenance with no cost to us with the revenue they've already made from this game.

Regardless, $5 isn't much at all anyway, so I can't complain too much. Nice blog, too. +1

AND THE GIF. THE GIF IS GOOD.

TacoRocco
06 Feb 2014 05:27
In reply to Monstercat

It's a business, they care about our money, not about us. They aren't going to do something if it isn't going to make a profit. They made Pokebank to make money off people who want to transfer their pokemon up from previous generations.

regi900
06 Feb 2014 06:10
In reply to TacoRocco

When the ability to do that was previously free. Nintendos in a bit of a cash problem from the low Wii U sales, so I'm not surprised by this.

charizardman283
06 Feb 2014 18:36
In reply to regi900

If you think about it, they are being pretty generous. It comes down to only about $0.42 per month.

GuitarGodAnth
06 Feb 2014 01:19

Pokemon Bank can store 3,000 Pokemon, not 30,000 pokemon. This blog seems very rushed.

charizardman283
06 Feb 2014 18:34
In reply to GuitarGodAnth

Whoops. It was a little rushed. I'll fix that.

[PSA] BANK AND TRANSPORTER ARE LIVE IN NA

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