>>16636033Revised versionPokémon Box Ruby and Sapphire was a full-price Gamecube game, $50. It was capable of holding 1,500 Pokémon (Pokémon Bank is capable of holding 3,000). PBR/S only functioned for Gen 3 games, Bank functions with Gen 6 and all future games. It came out on July 11, 2004 in the United States. Note that Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire came out on March 19, 2003. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl came out on April 22, 2007, rendering PBR/S obsolete. PBR/S, then, cost $16.66 per year for half the storage Bank is supplying and with the added hassle of needing at least one GameCube console, and one GameCube to GBA Link Cable. The game's save data also took up 59 Blocks, so unless Box was the only game you owned for the GameCube, you'd need to upgrade from the memory card that comes with the console.
>$16.66 per year of use before it became obsolete>1.1 cents per slot per yearDon't even talk to me about the "storage option" for Gen 4. My Pokémon Ranch was terrible. It only functioned with Diamond and Pearl, and it came out less than a year before everyone who actually would use 1000 extra storage slots upgraded to Platinum. Not to mention it only allowed communication with one save file, so unlike PBR/S or Bank, you couldn't use it to move masses of Pokémon between multiple games you own.
>$10 for .75 of a year, adjusted to $13 per year of use before it became obsolete>1.3 cents per slot per year, when adjusted for the fact that the game had less than one year lifespanPokémon Bank is only $5 per year. It has 3000 slots and works with any Gen 6 games you might own, in addition to allowing one-way transfer from BW(2). It doesn't need a console or some dumb cables like Ranch and Box, all it needs is the Internet.
>$5 per year>0.1 cents per slot per yearPokémon Bank is the cheapest mass-storage option in the history of Pokémon, when adjusting the one-time cost options to spread the cost over the time they were actually relevant.
