Poké Transporter Confirmed for X & Y

I have about 800 Pokemon to bring into that from Black/White and Black 2. I'm stoked for it. Plus it will allow me to transfer my Level 100 EV trained Pokemon into XY and destroy all of my friends again.

$5yr is reasonable, but we still aren't paying it. My kids will have to suck it up and move on or deal.

Is SSB going to have a paid bank so we can pay to move Sonic and Snake over from SSBB?

I'm just glad that they've finally announced that there's a way to transfer older Pokemon. I've been playing older games recently (Platinum and Soul Silver, specifically), and getting older Pokemon that I really wanted. I'd hate to think all my work had been wasted, so this makes me really happy. I wonder how soon you'll be able to use this, though. Will you potentially be able to send over an older starter to use alongside the two you get in X and Y and use it from the beginning, or will it be like Black/White/Black 2/White 2 where you need to reach a certain point in the game in order to transfer your older Pokemon?

@rjejr Yes.

Won't it make X and Y rather easy if you transfer your old Pokemon from the start?

I know I wasted a lot of time on all the Pokémon DS games with all my shiny hunting and EV training. If I would to lose all my well made perfect Shinnies, that are also EV train to the max, I could care less because its just a game and these pokemon mean nothing to me, other then tools of war.
Still nice that I can keep them, but I don't need to save 3000 pokes.

I will skip X and Y if they charge even one penny for transfers from Black and White.

liking this idea but hate how this us just a add on to the pokemon back thing so in order to use it you might have to get the pkm bank thing first

I didn't like the idea of paying for this but at $5 for a year I guess that's totally fine for the people that are going to bother with this kind of thing.

I wonder why they didn't announce the fee immediately, assuming it really is this small for everyone, rather than give people even a glimmer of a reason to go apesh*t speculating about just how much it's going to cost to use this service...

Deal breaker if they charge to transfer from Black and White.

@rjejr YES PLEASE

They aren't going to charge players for transferring from B/W to X/Y. Only for cloud storage. -.-"

$5 to not have to play a boring minigame to transfer my Pokemon six at a time? Sounds good to me.

@0-172 If they have free access to the files, then what? Pokémon X & Y saved games will be (hopefully?) stored on the SD, this doesn't change anything.
Wrt weeding out hacked and illegitimate Pokemon, this can be done in the app itself. Although I guess the cloud approach allows for more flexibility.

The bank existing is fine, but having no offline free option seems like a cash grab by forcing you to use their pay services.

...Kinda wished it was free....oh well, probably won't keep it until the next 3DS Pokemon games, lol.

I have to pay to transfer my Pokémon? No chance.

I'll either trade with people that have, or I'll do without. The only Pokémon I care about are Umbreon and Blaziken, and they'll both be available without paying.

....Actually i just realized that we can actually start a game over without having to worry about losing your Pokemon you worked on.
So i dunno now. xD

As I promised: now I can say I'm gonna get these games.
Man, after Ruby and Sapphire, Nintendo learned the lesson. Well done!

Why is everyone so mad about 5 dollers a year were lucky that we have free online on nintendo systems do you all want to pay 20 to 50 dollar instead(plus cloud space is expensive)

@Sleepingmudkip
They don't believe that the service is worth $5. Doesn't matter how cheap it is if it's not worth the fee.

So let me guess. They are now charging you for transferring your Gen 5 pkmns to X & Y?

If thats the case, its lame. Really lame. :/

I really don't care I just want to play the game and anyways it's only $5 for an entire year

i just want to transfer my pokemon, not actually use the cloud storage, so that better not cost anything.

These severs will not last forever, and I don't want to rely on an internet connection to send all my hard work to the next generation. 1->2; 3->4, 4->5 all did it fine without needing to use an external service, just the games, and I can't connect my DS to the internet, will that screw me over?

@gaby_gabito No, that's why badges are needed to control Pokemon over certain levels. Been a part of the series since day one.

@Sam_Loser2 The 3DS is backwards compatible.

Does anyone know if it will work for Heart Gold/Soul Silver???

That depends; is it a one-way process like Gen III > Gen IV or Gen IV > Gen V was?

Time to bring over my Pokemon from Diamond and SoulSilver, which have all my Pokemon from the GBA games~

I like this feature a lot.

I honestly think this is kind of ridiculous. I mean seriously 3000 Pokemon when there's like not even 800 official ones? In my opinion if you have more than 50 EV Trained Pokemon that you actually use I think its time to stop for a while. I probably do but maybe not I pretty much retired from EV training a while back but I still love revisiting all the games.

@BlatantlyHeroic You still need to connect using DS settings. So even though my 3DS connects to the internet, I can't connect my DS games even on my 3DS. A good part of my X & Y excitement is that I can FINALLY use some of these online features we've gotten the past few generations.