{"id":132227,"date":"2023-03-04T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-146037"},"modified":"2023-03-04T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T05:45:00","slug":"this-is-what-the-pokemon-bank-3ds-shut-down-update-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/04\/this-is-what-the-pokemon-bank-3ds-shut-down-update-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What The Pok\u00e9mon Bank 3DS Shut Down Update Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9504dfe8a1e8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9504dfe8a1e8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pokemon Bank\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9504dfe8a1e8\/pokemon-bank.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a9504dfe8a1e8\/pokemon-bank.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Bank\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: 3DS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>March marks the month of the 3DS eShop shutdown and as part of this, The Pok\u00e9mon Company previously announced it would be making its <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Bank<\/strong> service on Nintendo&#8217;s handheld device entirely free.<\/p>\n<p>Serebii.net webmaster Joe Merrick has now highlighted one of the changes that will be made on the software side as part of the &#8220;free to use&#8221; process. Instead of showing the amount of &#8220;days remaining&#8221; until your Bank subscription ends, as of this next update, the app will now just cycle through continually. Here&#8217;s a look:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/joemerrick\/statuses\/1631581721517871105 @ 2023-03-04T19:28:43+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They put a small note out today about Pok\u00e9mon Bank that, when it goes free to use at the end of the month, the &#8220;Days Remaining&#8221; will show a ?XX amount of days remaining and that&#8217;ll just cycle through continually <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/98amKOB7JP\">pic.twitter.com\/98amKOB7JP<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMerrick\/status\/1631581721517871105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe added how it would stay like this until the servers for Bank \/ 3DS were eventually killed off. Before this update was announced last February, users of Pok\u00e9mon Bank were required to pay a subscription fee to access the entire service. There was also a free user option, but it was limited.<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Bank allows users to add Pok\u00e9mon from the earlier Game Boy generations through to the 3DS games to the cloud service and was succeeded by the paid service <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_home\">Pok\u00e9mon Home<\/a><\/strong> for Switch in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you got Pok\u00e9mon Bank on your 3DS? Are you still using it for storage? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: 3DS March marks the month of the 3DS eShop shutdown and as part of this, The Pok\u00e9mon Company previously announced it would be making its Pok\u00e9mon Bank service on Nintendo&#8217;s handheld device entirely free. Serebii.net webmaster Joe Merrick has now highlighted one of the changes that will be made on the software side as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}