>>22387957You can't fight against an XY player with ORAS only items/moves/megaevos. The game will refuse to work.
>>22388022>Nintendo didn't have to close down the wireless network that gen 5 needed to function.Yes, they had to because of
>>22388998 , blame GameSpy for that. They decided giving support to other platforms wasn't worth their time and they shut down their online services. Some clients released patches to their games so they could keep functioning but others couldn't, which was Nintendo's case (DSs and DS games cannot be patched). So yeah, they had no choice but to shut WFC down.
>Same amount of time, so this isn't really a valid excuse. Yes it is. It's a completely different situation here, if GameSpy hadn't shut down BW2 would still be useable (and BW2 would have been obsolete anyways, gen 6 breeding mechanics are superior and gen 6 has improved battle mechanics, such as fairy type and megas).