Is this Nintendo or EA?

kinda bummed about the Pokémon Bank. Not about stroring Pokemon, since it's a great idea and it's optional. But unless there's another option they haven't announced yet, I don't like the idea of having to pay to transfer my old Pokémon to this new one. I bought the old games. I'll be buying the new one. Why do I have to pay for a "service" I got for free in the past?

I like those 3DS designs. I just wish they were normal 3DS' s.

A PokeBank, eh? Why has no one ever thought of this?! I wonder how much it'll cost. Not that I'd purchase it. I don't need to store my Pokemon THAT badly. Not to mention all of the subscriptions you have to pay for nowadays. Just isn't worth it.

I'm assuming that the custom X & Y 3DS models will cost somewhere between $225-$250. It does sound pretty silly though to have custom 3Ds models for a game, and then not ship them with said game.

And releasing these two in September, and then an actual X&Y bundle later in the year (which was rumored along with the Zelda Windwaker bundle a couple weeks ago) makes even less sense.

Edit: Oh. I thought that the Pokebank would help transfer Pokemon from X/Y into future system Pokemon games. I was wrong. What a gosh darn rip-off.

EditEdit: Ignore that last edit. I've been corrected.

...have they confirmed if they still have in game PCs for storage as well?

So, is just importing my Pokemon directly from a previous version to X/Y no longer an option? Or is this just to store scores of my captured creatures for future import? Because the former would make me a little upset.

Edit: Okay, now that I've watched the Direct, they talk about how they wanted people to store their Pokemon so that you could start a new run on the card, or something like that. Why not have multiple save slots? I guess this works too.

"Pokemon X and Y will be available on October 12, 2013, with the original three starting pokemon in tow (with mega evolutions, too)."

...Are you telling me they've already revealed Mega-Blastoise?

Also, the pokebank sounds like a terrible idea/cash grab. Why not just increase the amount of storage at in-game PCs?

I will tell you now, if using that Bank is the only way to transfer my dudes off of Black 2 into Y, I will be seriously pissed off by that. It basically feels like Nintendo is punishing all of us who have collected Pokemon from other games up until this point. Just because we don't want to start over, they want to charge us for the opportunity to transfer our collection over.

Only upside i see is tranfering pokemon from older games to newer: but other then that its rather pointless considering the in game storage system has more then enough space

Still waiting on nintendo to be like "official pokemon mmo incoming" (could this be a teaser to one though o.o)

Japanese price is only 5 bucks a year,so it should be around the same price for US. Sounds reasonable enough for me. It is a cheap cash grab, but considering how poorly Nintendo has been doing lately this seems like a sure fire way to make and extra 5 bucks per person.

So....no minigame? Please, no minigame. It took me an hour and a half to move everything from Diamond to Black.

Also, Serebii said something about the Bank refusing to take "cheated" Pokemon. That's probably a big reason they're doing it

Ehhh.... I don't plan on using this. JUST GIMME THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!

Eh, this seems like an all right idea depending on the price.  In the end, it won't affect me much.

I find the reactions people are having ridiculous. If you don't want to use it then don't. It's that simple. There's a free period until December if you want to transfer from current to next gen, and other than that stay away. Honestly. Also, five dollars a year. FIVE DOLLARS a year. You pay more than that on one trip to Wendy's.

It's an annual fee, guys, jeez. Once a year. 5$ a year. You'll be hard pressed to find a cheaper subscription service.

Is Nintendo trying to lose money and/or customers? It seems that way looking at how they're handling the WiiU, their own games, and how to announce things. They really should have put the price up when they announced this service because now anyone can imagine a price for it, maybe some will think it costs $15 a month, some may say $2 one time, we can't know. Saying the reasons why it would need to be paid for is nice, but that's not the only info we need on this. If it's cheap, I'll get it so I can send my pokemon from white over to y when I get it, plus it can be useful for future pokemon versions so I can keep my attachments to the pokemon I have instead of feel bad every time I start a new game.

Yes! I knew it. It is just a preorder or just buy the 3DS in store?

I mean it's cool, like the one for Gamecube it helps with massive collections. But unless you're a die-hard Pokemon fan I don't see many people coughing up much money for this with a subscription model.

Well. I will be getting the Pokemon Bank.

a great feature, and WOOHOO to the limited edition! (hope they release the charizard and eevee editions too)