Gotta Meme 'em All: Pokémon Bank Delay: Difference between revisions

Shortly after the release of {{bp|Generation VI}}'s first title, {{bp|Pokémon X and Y}}, {{bp|Game Freak}} announced the release of a utility application compatible with it, the Pokémon Bank.  The Pokémon Bank was revealed to be an application downloadable on the {{bp|Nintendo 3DS}} {{bp|eShop}} which could be used for an annual fee of $5 to transfer Pokémon between copies of Pokémon X and Y via a cloud-based service, removing the need for a second system to perform a trade.  It was also revealed to come with a companion application, Poké Transporter, a service that would allow a one-way transport of Pokémon from {{bp|Generation V|the previous generation of games}} to the current generation, a feature which has been customary in the {{bp|core series}} games since {{bp|Pal Park|Generation IV}}.  Slated for a release date of December 25, 2013 in Japan, December 27 in the Americas and Europe, and December 28 in Australia and New Zealand, with a free 30-day trial to be available to all players, Pokémon Bank was cause for much excitement and anticipation in the Pokémon fandom, mostly because of Poké Transporter.

On December 26, the day after its release in Japan, the number of times Pokémon Bank had been downloaded and used simultaneously, added to holiday traffic online (keep in mind that the application was released on Christmas Day), that online services on both the Nintendo 3DS and {{bp|Wii U}} were rendered unusable, forcing {{bp|Nintendo}} to pull it off of the eShop.  Players who had already downloaded it were still able to use the service, meaning that Japanese players who had already downloaded it before it was pulled down would be the only people able to use it for a while.

This enraged many players, mainly those in non-Japanese regions who had not even been given the opportunity to download Pokémon Bank yet.  For the next month, people took to the internet to criticize Nintendo for not expecting the online traffic the application would garner, as well as taking it down so abruptly.  Image macros were produced mocking Nintendo for Pokémon Bank's absence and often insinuating that it would never be released.  [https://www.youtube.com/user/NateWantsToBattle NateWantsToBattle], a YouTuber renowned for writing and performing parodies of pop songs relating to the Pokémon franchise, released ''Pokémon Bank'', a parody of Daniel Powter's ''Bad Day'', begging Nintendo to release it.  At the time of this article's publication, this video has nearly 470,000 views.