tazzyboyishere posted...It removed the GTS with no alternative and the online features are actually not functional.
With the Switch allowing you to create multiple user profiles and each profile being able to have its own save file, you could easily abuse the GTS to trade between save files on your own Switch (especially to farm Mystery Gift events). So that's probably one reason for not having it. Although doing this requires both Switch user profiles to have an active NSO subscription, so it's not very practical in theory to do.
But another reason is that they will probably lock the GTS behind a Pokemon Home pay wall instead. This will mean you'll have to pay for a Pokemon Home subscription (or maybe a one-time purchase) to have access to a trading feature that functions like the GTS.
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