Pokebank is a service announced by Nintendo, meant to be released in North America on Dec.27th. Similar to cloud services, Pokebank allows the user to store there pokemon up in the cloud for annual fee. The app also has a companion app called Poketransfer, in which you can transfer pokemon from the previous generation of pokemon games, Pokemon Black and White, and then transfer them to the current generation of games, Pokemon X & Y.
Postponing
Due to a large volume of traffic of Dec.26th, which also caused people to have trouble creating Nintendo ids, for the Nintendo Network service, Pokebank’s release was postponed till a later date, which has not yet been announced.
Reaction
This postponing caused a stir among pokemon fans, who were excited for this service. Fanboys would go on Twitter and Facebook and spam in the comments section on every post made by Nintendo “POKEBANK”. Nintendo has not yet replied to all the criticism and reaction.
Hacked Pokemon
When the service was released in Japan, users were uploading hacked pokemon to the cloud, which could potentially crash the games Pokemon X and Y. Nintendo has temporally taken down the service in Japan