{"id":812405,"date":"2026-08-13T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812405\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:50:09","slug":"pokemon-bank-is-shutting-down-announcement-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812405\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Bank is shutting down, announcement released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pokemon-Bank-shutting-down.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pokemon-Bank-shutting-down-656x328.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, The Pokemon Company announced that it\u2019s shutting down Pokemon Bank. The service goes offline on February 26, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Once we reach that day, players will not be able to transfer Pokemon from Pokemon Bank to Pokemon Home. It will not be possible to store Pokemon there any longer. Players are advised to send their creatures to Pokemon Home before the shutdown date.<\/p>\n<p>The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon.co.jp\/info\/2022\/02\/220216_gm01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">notice<\/a> is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much for always enjoying the Pok\u00e9mon series.<\/p>\n<p>We regret to inform you that Pok\u00e9mon Bank will be discontinuing its service on February 26, 2027 (Friday) at 12:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the function to transfer Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon Bank to Pok\u00e9mon HOME will also be discontinued on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to transfer Pok\u00e9mon stored in Pok\u00e9mon Bank, please send them to Pok\u00e9mon HOME before the Pok\u00e9mon Bank service ends.<\/p>\n<p>Notes<\/p>\n<p>New downloads for Pok\u00e9mon Bank have ended.You cannot transfer Pok\u00e9mon from Pok\u00e9mon HOME to Pok\u00e9mon Bank.Pok\u00e9Mile Points received through Pok\u00e9mon Bank cannot be transferred to Pok\u00e9mon HOME.<\/p>\n<p>This is accompanied by a bunch of news for Pokemon Home, including the announcement that support for Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen is coming in October. Get all of the details <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/pokemon-home-details-pokemon-firered-and-leafgreen-support-celebi-reward-for-completing-the-pokedex-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, The Pokemon Company announced that it\u2019s shutting down Pokemon Bank. The service goes offline on February 26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[344755,74,1867],"class_list":["post-812405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-pokemon-bank","tag-technology","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}