>>25347136Except you missed the part where it's *not* the only way, because you're a fucking moron. You can still transfer shit the old fashioned way by trading it forward to your next game, but to do so you'll either have to have an extremely patient friend to pass shit to who's willing to go out and catch a fucking pidgey for every pokemon in your PC, trade said pidgeys for all of your pokemon, keep track of which ones are yours, then wait for you to catch an equivalent amount of pidgeys in your next gen game and then repeat the process, or you can buy a separate 3DS (which costs significantly more than a bank fee) and do all of this *by yourself*. It's completely legitimate and it's how you had to do it in the past if you wanted to trade your pokemon forward from Gen 4 to Gen 5. There was also a small data conversion from Gen 3 to Gen 4, which is the only reason that the transfer park was available, and because the original DS could literally have both games plugged in at once to communicate with each other and just move the pokemon. Without putting an extra game card slot for no logical reason, the 3DS is not capable of directly transferring pokemon between carts. You just have to do it like we did in the olden days of gen 1 transferring to gen 2, or RSE to FRLG, or DPT to BW.
The point of Bank is not to transfer, but to give you extra pokemon storage because they realized that the box limitations were starting to get small with the large number of pokemon, so you could breed multiple competitive mons, shinies, and whatever else you want and not run out of space, and they realized that they could include moving them to another game as a bonus perk because it just made sense. You don't *have* to use it to transfer pokemon forward. You'll be able to trade as normal between gen 6 and Sun/Moon. You're paying for an external service that requires significant data use/server maintenance way beyond a connection to battle and trade over, but to store data too. STFU
