{"id":2091772,"date":"2026-08-13T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2091772"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:59:10","slug":"you-have-fewer-than-200-days-to-migrate-all-your-old-pokemon-from-pokemon-bank-to-pokemon-home-or-theyre-gone-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2091772","title":{"rendered":"You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home, or they&#8217;re gone forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home, or they&#8217;re gone forever<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">For whom the Bill tolls.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/bridgette-home-bank.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Red-headed Professor Bridgette in front of a chart for Pokemon Home and Pokemon Bank.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"bridgette-home-bank.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Dom Peppiatt avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"pxl_20220402_110941365.portrait_V04meYj.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1044\" height=\"1130\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/dom-peppiatt\">Dom Peppiatt<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Deputy Editorial Director<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\n<p>Published on   <time datetime=\"2026-08-13T14:59:10+00:00\" data-auto-time-zone=\"true\" data-year=\"numeric\" data-month=\"short\" data-day=\"numeric\" data-hour=\"numeric\" data-minute=\"numeric\">Aug. 13, 2026, 2:59 p.m.<\/time>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"b14cee41-e7cc-41ab-aa2b-3f8fb2bc688f\" data-name=\"Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Poku00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\" title=\"Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen\"><br \/>\n  Follow Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Today, The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that it&#8217;s shutting down Pok\u00e9mon Bank, the Pok\u00e9mon storage app was that was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The service goes offline on 26th February, 2027, so you&#8217;ve still got plenty of time to access your old pals and begin migrating them into your new games, if you&#8217;ve got the time and energy.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Bank was originally designed for trainers to import their Pok\u00e9mon from  Black &amp; White, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/black-white-2\">Black &amp; White 2<\/a>, X &amp; Y, Omega Ruby &amp; Alpha Sapphire and Sun &amp; Moon into one collective location, making a sort-of hub that allowed you to move creatures into various games. Handy for competitive players and those diligent shiny hunters that make up a large portion of the community, the software was celebrated as a handy method of moving &#8216;mon between generations.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Pokemon Presents: 30th Anniversary Livestream Watch Party &amp; Post Show\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KlUgHjhd4TQ?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KlUgHjhd4TQ\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Pokemon Presents: 30th Anniversary Livestream Watch Party &amp; Post Show<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KlUgHjhd4TQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Even though Nintendo has announced the service will close early next year, it&#8217;s been inaccessible to many players for a while now: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-to-shut-down-online-play-across-3ds-and-wii-u-as-of-early-april-2024\">Nintendo shut down the 3DS&#8217; online store back in 2023<\/a>, delisting Pok\u00e9mon Bank along with it. But Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company kept support alive for Pok\u00e9mon Bank ever since (staying online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-confirms-date-3ds-and-wii-u-online-play-shuts-down\">even when online play ceased on the 3DS<\/a> a year later).\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fear not, however: if you want a central nexus for all your Pok\u00e9mon that is also compatible with Switch games (and Switch ports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-leafgreen-firered\">like FireRed and LeafGreen<\/a>), you can use 2020&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Home. We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/move-pokemon-transfer-pokemon-home\">a complete guide on how to migrate Pok\u00e9mon from Bank to Home<\/a>, if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company has recommended we transfer any Pok\u00e9mon left in our Pok\u00e9mon Bank account over to Pok\u00e9mon Home, otherwise they&#8217;ll disappear forever as of February 2027. Hold on whilst I go in and rescue my competition-winning shiny Tyranitar, then.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An info-graphic showing how Pok\u00e9mon can be transferred into Pok\u00e9mon Bank.\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Pokemon_Home_Transfer_5.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.369047619047619\" width=\"690\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"An info-graphic showing how Pok\u00e9mon can be transferred into Pok\u00e9mon Bank.\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Pokemon_Home_Transfer_5.jpg\" height=\"504\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.369047619047619\" width=\"690\"><figcaption>How to transfer from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home. | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Bank, a Nintendo 3DS application that lets players deposit or withdraw Pok\u00e9mon they have befriended in Pok\u00e9mon titles on that system from online Boxes, will be ending service on Thursday, 25th February, 2027, at 7pm PST,&#8221; an official statement from The Pok\u00e9mon Company reads. &#8220;As a result, transferring Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home will also no longer be possible. If you have Pok\u00e9mon stored in Pok\u00e9mon Bank that you wish to carry over, please move them to Pok\u00e9mon HOME prior to Pok\u00e9mon Bank&#8217;s end of service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all doom and gloom, though: part of today&#8217;s announcement was that we will finally be able to link up FireRed and LeafGreen to Home as of October 2026. we knew that Home compatibility would be added to the 2026 ports at some point, we just didn&#8217;t know when. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-update-coming-this-october-as-ruby-and-sapphire-speculation-swirls\">This has sparked a wave of speculation<\/a> about Pok\u00e9mon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald ports being launched around the same time, though nothing official has been announced at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Today, The Pok\u00e9mon Company announced that it&#8217;s shutting down Pok\u00e9mon Bank, the Pok\u00e9mon storage app was that was originally released for the Nintendo 3DS back in 2013. The service goes offline on 26th February, 2027, so you&#8217;ve still got plenty of time to access your old pals and begin migrating them into your new games, if you&#8217;ve got the time and energy.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Bank was originally designed for trainers to import their Pok\u00e9mon from  Black &amp; White, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/black-white-2\">Black &amp; White 2<\/a>, X &amp; Y, Omega Ruby &amp; Alpha Sapphire and Sun &amp; Moon into one collective location, making a sort-of hub that allowed you to move creatures into various games. Handy for competitive players and those diligent shiny hunters that make up a large portion of the community, the software was celebrated as a handy method of moving &#8216;mon between generations.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Pokemon Presents: 30th Anniversary Livestream Watch Party &amp; Post Show\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KlUgHjhd4TQ?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KlUgHjhd4TQ\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Pokemon Presents: 30th Anniversary Livestream Watch Party &amp; Post Show<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KlUgHjhd4TQ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Even though Nintendo has announced the service will close early next year, it&#8217;s been inaccessible to many players for a while now: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-to-shut-down-online-play-across-3ds-and-wii-u-as-of-early-april-2024\">Nintendo shut down the 3DS&#8217; online store back in 2023<\/a>, delisting Pok\u00e9mon Bank along with it. But Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company kept support alive for Pok\u00e9mon Bank ever since (staying online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nintendo-confirms-date-3ds-and-wii-u-online-play-shuts-down\">even when online play ceased on the 3DS<\/a> a year later).\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fear not, however: if you want a central nexus for all your Pok\u00e9mon that is also compatible with Switch games (and Switch ports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-leafgreen-firered\">like FireRed and LeafGreen<\/a>), you can use 2020&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Home. We have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/move-pokemon-transfer-pokemon-home\">a complete guide on how to migrate Pok\u00e9mon from Bank to Home<\/a>, if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company has recommended we transfer any Pok\u00e9mon left in our Pok\u00e9mon Bank account over to Pok\u00e9mon Home, otherwise they&#8217;ll disappear forever as of February 2027. Hold on whilst I go in and rescue my competition-winning shiny Tyranitar, then.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An info-graphic showing how Pok\u00e9mon can be transferred into Pok\u00e9mon Bank.\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Pokemon_Home_Transfer_5.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.369047619047619\" width=\"690\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"An info-graphic showing how Pok\u00e9mon can be transferred into Pok\u00e9mon Bank.\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-lightbox data-uri=\"Pokemon_Home_Transfer_5.jpg\" height=\"504\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1.369047619047619\" width=\"690\"><figcaption>How to transfer from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home. | <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/cite><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Bank, a Nintendo 3DS application that lets players deposit or withdraw Pok\u00e9mon they have befriended in Pok\u00e9mon titles on that system from online Boxes, will be ending service on Thursday, 25th February, 2027, at 7pm PST,&#8221; an official statement from The Pok\u00e9mon Company reads. &#8220;As a result, transferring Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home will also no longer be possible. If you have Pok\u00e9mon stored in Pok\u00e9mon Bank that you wish to carry over, please move them to Pok\u00e9mon HOME prior to Pok\u00e9mon Bank&#8217;s end of service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all doom and gloom, though: part of today&#8217;s announcement was that we will finally be able to link up FireRed and LeafGreen to Home as of October 2026. we knew that Home compatibility would be added to the 2026 ports at some point, we just didn&#8217;t know when. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-update-coming-this-october-as-ruby-and-sapphire-speculation-swirls\">This has sparked a wave of speculation<\/a> about Pok\u00e9mon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald ports being launched around the same time, though nothing official has been announced at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News You have fewer than 200 days to migrate all your old Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon Home, or they&#8217;re gone forever For whom the Bill tolls. 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