--- title: Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank... description: Nintendo has announced that Pokémon Bank, the paid cloud storage service allowing players to transfer Pokémon between 3DS and other games, will shut down on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown | daily.dev og:description: Nintendo has announced that Pokémon Bank, the paid cloud storage service allowing players to transfer Pokémon between 3DS and other games, will shut down on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/j2B5rJ7Sj.png og:image:alt: Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nintendo has announced that Pokémon Bank, the paid cloud storage service allowing players to transfer Pokémon between 3DS and other games, will shut down on February 25, 2027. The service, which let users store up to 3,000 Pokémon, is now free during its final months. Because certain Pokémon can only be obtained from 3DS-era games, losing this transfer mechanism without an alternative means some Pokémon may become permanently inaccessible, raising broader concerns about software archiving and preservation when online services are essential to a game's full functionality. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When is Pokémon Bank shutting down? Pokémon Bank will shut down on February 25, 2027, as announced by Nintendo. This paid cloud storage service allowed players to store and transfer Pokémon between 3DS games and later systems, holding up to 3,000 Pokémon. The service has been made free during its final months leading up to the shutdown. _daily.dev helps developers track platform sunset dates that affect legacy software and preservation work._ ### Why does the Pokémon Bank shutdown matter for Pokémon preservation? Certain Pokémon can only be obtained from Nintendo 3DS-era Pokémon games, so once Pokémon Bank shuts down without a replacement transfer mechanism, those Pokémon may become permanently unobtainable unless the original games are made available on newer consoles. This highlights the broader challenge of software and data archiving when online services are required for a game's complete functionality. _Anyone researching software archiving challenges can follow similar preservation stories on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Video Game Archive Myrient To Shut Down On March 31](https://daily.dev/posts/video-game-archive-myrient-to-shut-down-on-march-31-g7bm7xqvu) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Someone made their own GBA-to-Switch 2 Pokémon transferrer after Nintendo closed its official route](https://daily.dev/posts/someone-made-their-own-gba-to-switch-2-pok-mon-transferrer-after-nintendo-closed-its-official-route-tit3wbagk) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Pokémon Center data breach exposes customer info, cancels some orders](https://daily.dev/posts/pok-mon-center-data-breach-exposes-customer-info-cancels-some-orders-rv6yhmpez) · BleepingComputer · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Pokemon Pokopia has topped 5 million sales worldwide](https://daily.dev/posts/pokemon-pokopia-has-topped-5-million-sales-worldwide-mxktbevvi) · Game Developer · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Nintendo downplays hack, claiming "no leak of personal, development, or business information"](https://daily.dev/posts/nintendo-downplays-hack-claiming-no-leak-of-personal-development-or-business-information--jbvvleclb) · GamesIndustry.biz · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#gaming](https://daily.dev/tags/gaming), [#nintendo](https://daily.dev/tags/nintendo) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj"},"datePublished":"2026-08-15T02:18:03.959Z","dateModified":"2026-08-15T02:18:22.926Z","description":"Nintendo has announced that Pokémon Bank, the paid cloud storage service allowing players to transfer Pokémon between 3DS and other games, will shut down on...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d8dabd350df1207320f74db9d13c2018?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/d8dabd350df1207320f74db9d13c2018?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hackaday","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hackaday","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JhDfhy70--/f_auto,q_auto/v1767541814/logos/hackaday","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"gaming,nintendo","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackaday","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms With Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/large-scale-pok-mon-eviction-looms-with-pok-mon-bank-server-shutdown-j2b5rj7sj#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"When is Pokémon Bank shutting down?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Pokémon Bank will shut down on February 25, 2027, as announced by Nintendo. 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