Question:
How many ways will they screw this up?
Option 1: Pokémon Bank won't support Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee at all
votes: 6
Option 2: Pokémon Bank won't support Switch at all
votes: 3
Option 3: You'll have to pay two subscriptions to access PokeBank: one for Nintendo Switch Online, one for Pokemon
votes: 5
Option 4: You can't transfer any Pokémon from a 3DS game to any Switch game at all
votes: 3
Option 5: It's impossible to catch 'em all in the 2019 game
votes: 5
Option 6: The 2019 game will eliminate and/or otherwise screw up fundamental gameplay mechanics
votes: 4
Option 7: The 2019 game will be delayed into 2020
votes: 3
Option 8: The 2019 game will somehow manage to have worse visuals than 3DS's Sun&Moon
votes: 2
Option 9: Some graphics performance issues like 30fps, 720p docked, or stuttering/lag
votes: 5
Option 10: Other (explain)
votes: 2
they will release three versions of the game on release date, in an obvious attempt to exploit pokemon fiends
The two subscriptions to fully enjoy the game is pretty much guaranteed. :(
Quote from: Super on September 13, 2018, 01:22:40 AMThe two subscriptions to fully enjoy the game is pretty much guaranteed. :(
Yeah, I fully expect this too.
Maybe Pokémon Bank will still work if you don't have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, but either way I completely expect you'll need two subscriptions to fully enjoy the game with both bank/transfers and trading/battles.
And at this point I'm getting the feeling that Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee likely won't have any kind of trade or transfer compatibility with the actual main series games, so we'll have to wait until next year's Gen8 games to see Bank on Switch.
I'm expecting that Pokémon Bank will eventually come to Switch for the Gen8 games and will be the method for transferring Pokémon from Sun/Moon, but I also wouldn't be that surprised if it doesn't come over at all. Making a cloud storage service that only holds 1MB of data, ends up locked to a single system (because 3DS's online account system is awful), and doesn't even work cross-platform, effectively having no reason to be in the cloud at all, is completely within the realm of things Nintendo would do.
It'll probably have it's own bank version, if it does.