THE FUSE

Last month, The Pokémon Company announced that it will finally be shutting down Pokémon Bank in 2027. This 3DS storage app has been the bridge between generations of Pokémon games going as far back as the Game Boy Advance releases. Though its use cases in 2026 are far more niche than they were when people were moving between those earlier games, it marks the end of an era and of a long-held, nostalgic tradition the community once took part in before everything became centralized in the current, platform-agnostic Pokémon Home storage app. However, one software developer is working on a technical solution that could make it possible for players to trade Pokémon between their Game Boy Advance and their Switch.