Pokémon Bank Pricing Revealed For Australia And New Zealand

The fact that you have to pay money is not reasonable.
I understand if it was a somewhat modest game in Nintendo's collection, like Fossil Fighters. However this is a game that must have made a major profit, and can pay for the servers themselves.

Remember me...

Iwata needs you to dig deep into those pockets mon

Can't wait to download this. I was fed up with the awkward way previous gen pokemon had to be transferred and this solves all my problems. I just hope Pokemon holding items and ones who have learned TM/HMs can still be transferred.

@MadAussieBloke Wait what?

My question is can I deposit from Gen 4 games or do I have to do the bs transfer 4hundred whatever Pokemon from HeartGold to White 6 at a time.

@BenAV Define "full" because I have over 50 boxes

@BenAV Like I said, I have over 50 boxes. 43 of the are filled with pokemon thanks to me MMing shiny versions and I have seen people with over 130 boxes. There is no known limit

well i was excited for bank, but now that iv breeding is easier, i dont really see any need to transfer anything except the missing mons or mons with special moves that cant be obtained in XY. i love the new iv breeding mechanics, i win more battles than i did in B2, although there is still the rage quitter factor, i think ill start recording my matches to catch the rage quitters in the act. lol sylveon is beast!

@Bliquid

Exactly what I was thinking. Hopefully this bank is successful so this may help them to see that many fans want something similar for their hard earned game purchases.

I don't care how small the fee is, it's unreasonable to charge players for features that were free with every other game. If you want the extra storage space that's cool, but I shouldn't be charged just to port my Pokémon over. Still so disapointed with Game Freak. I hope someone can figure out a hack that'd allow us to port Pokémon for free, y'know, like it should be in the first place.

And it saddens me to see how many people are so complacent. It's not the price, it's the principle. We're heading down a slippery slope here. Once they know people are willing to pay regular fees for stupid services the prices will only begin to climb. Mark my words.

They see that people pay for Xbox Live all the time. They're VERY aware of what people are willing to pay. They could start charging anytime they want for online play, but they DON'T.

@BenAV I know there's the first free month. That's cool, and I'll be making use of that. But what happens when I decide I want to replay some of the older games later on and port my new 'mons over. Suddenly I'm required to pay a fee for a simple transfer? I've also got other things I wanted to do in Black&White with my prime team at my leisure. Now I've got to do all that before Jan. 31 to avoid paying. Yeah, it doesn't cost much but it's the principle. With this change I have to play my games on Game Freak's terms and not my own, like it used to be.

@audiobrainiac My point exactly. XBox was one of the "pay for on-line" pioneers. Now it's considered "normal" to pay for that stuff. At the electronics store I used to work at I'd regularly see suckers come in and purchase Microsoft points for $50 or more just so they could use the bloody on-line features. That's a slippery slope that's already happened. I'm warning about the one that's going to happen with Nintendo.

I still hate this feature. I don't care for the cloud storage, I just need to transfer my pokemon, and since this is the only way, I'll be paying for a feature I'll never use. Luckily they have that free trial

for me in New Zealand, its alright

My god, that actually is a reasonable price, are they sure they haven't left out a few zeroes anywhere?

@SNESuperior I'm sorry, but you're being a huge baby. Nintendo never offered this kind of service for Pokemon. You had to have two DSs and two games to be able to "transfer", and that was just trading over. Here, they're making it so you don't even need a second DS. You just upload them to the bank, and start a new game or whatever it is you want to do. There is literally nothing bad about this deal. There's a free month for the complainers like you to move your Pokemon and never have to worry about it again. And if you can't afford $5 a year, I think you should be doing something other than playing video games.

@SNESuperior The only sort of games woth similar features would he MMOs that charge $20 a month...
While it's perfectly fine for you to find it a waste of money, many many more will find it fantastic. I will use the trial period, and I doubt I will need it after that, but if I did I'd rather pay $5.80 on that than horse armour dlc.

@RestlessPoon It's clearly not about being able to afford it - many can afford to buy a coffee for the same price but won't because they can have it much cheaper at home.

@MadAdam81 If I might point it out, the money spent on MMOs goes to adding content and providing server maintenance.

@SkywardLink98 This cost adds new content to X and Y and covers the server management for it. With MMOs, you generally still have to buy the new content on top of your subscription.
Other games would sell in DLC form each of the unavailable Pokemon, including legendary Pokemon for $10 each, and many would be happy to pay.

@MadAdam81 You don't generally buy content. They give free and paid content. World of Warcraft adds new dungeons, SWtOR has more content for free, etc. They have expansions (paid) and updates (covered in subscription). Heck, GW2 doesn't even charge you for the updates. MMO's also run an entire game off of the server, all this is doing is letting you have cloud saves, something free with a lot of other games (Arkham City, FF7, Half-Life 2, etc.) I must've missed it, can you link the source of the new content? All I was aware of this adding was a way to store pokemon online, and according to bulbapedia that's all it's doing.

@SkywardLink98 Many free to play or even pay to play allow you to spend money to get unique characters you can't get any other way. That's what Pokemon Bank provides for X & Y, as well as every new Pokemon game yet to come out.
That price and it gets you access to many Pokemon you otherwise can't get, and allows transfers between game without the purchase of another entirely new system.
If they also let you use it to allow you to upload your own Pokemon to titles like Pokemon Rumble and a new Pokemon Stadium or any other non-traditional Pokemon game, it will add more value to the service. Of course, there are still plenty who wouldn't get their money's worth.

@MadAdam81 They can't be obtained but are on the files. You are paying for access, not content, and the only reason it gives access is because they removed the 2 system transfer from previous gens forcing me (and other like me) to pay to do something we could do for free in previous generations.
I have no interest whatsoever in cloud storage, I just want my previous pokemon, something I didn't need to buy another service to do previously.