New Pokémon TCG Dex Mobile App Lets You Catalogue Your Collection And Discover New Cards

That's nice and all, but how about a new Pokémon Trading Card Game for Switch? Loved the first two Pokémon TCG Games on the Game Boy Color. There was also a japan exclusiv Pokémon TCG Tutorial Game for the DS that really showed the potential of a new entry in the series for the platform. Sadly we never got one on DS or 3DS...

Neat I guess. Still waiting for them to release the Trading Card game app onto Switch. It would give me an excuse to use the hundreds of online codes i've saved up from card packs.

I'll be promptly checking how this deals with Japanese cards once this is released in the UK. Could be useful as a quick translation aid. I'm skeptical though.

So... you just point the camera at the card and it records that you did and keeps track of what ones you recorded? That's it?

How about Pokemon TCG Online for Switch? How about updating that game to allow you to buy packs in-game like you can in basically every other digital card game?

Or maybe make a successor to Pokemon TCG from Game Boy. Worried about competing with yourself? Focus it on previous metagames and use sets that are out of print.

There are so many actually good ideas for the Pokemon TCG. This app is utterly pointless. It's a fancy way to do what you could just do with a pen and paper...

@Nagi_Nagisa best-idea-ever! This was one of my favorite games back on GBC.

Cool! Can we please get another one of the Pokemon Trading Card games on switch, wether it be a mobile port or a brand new rpg? I would love that!

I’ll definitely download it once they add in older sets.

I hope the bandwagon has lots of room, because I’m also hopping on. I want a new Pokémon TCG for Switch. I have the GB game on my 2DS, and I don’t use a computer at home for that online version. So I’d like a new one, pleaseses.

I'm on the "New TCG for switch" bandwagon.

I've been yearning for a new retail TCG video game for years.

I love, love, love the two games on GBC. Even my cousin in Turkey, with his lack of English and experience with the card games from back in the day loved it. I even tried to make my way through the Japanese sequel, though I had eventually given up as I had no idea what the hell the characters were saying, and the bizarre story was so cryptic to me.

I was initially excited about the app that followed, but it is too much of a grind fest and required far too much investment, not only in cash, but in real-life cards for minimal return. The whole appeal of the GBC games was that they alleviated the expense and clutter of having to buy real-life cards. They were so easy and fun to come by in the GBC games. The games were perfect for those who had no intention of ever buying the real-life cards anyway, and I very much doubt that they would put off collectors from buying actual cards as each game would be restricted to certain sets of cards based on when the game had been released. I did buy some theme decks and the likes a few years ago and dabbled in the online TCG game, but it just wasn't any fun at all. I've poured in dozens (if not over a hundred) hours into the GBC game, but I have absolutely exhausted all of the possibilities that I could with the game, and I'm tired of being restricted to the same old cards.

With the sheer volume of cards that they release, they could easily turn this into an annual franchise on Switch, and you'd bet your bottom dollar that I would obsessively grab them every year. They could be a great early to mid-year release to help fill in the post-holiday drought. But if they want to turn this into a F2P/DLC/microtransaction nightmare, they can shove it where the sun don't shine. Microtransaction lovers can stick with the app.

@Heavyarms55 While I do agree with the requests for more TCG-based games. Don't need to be salty about the app, if you think like that, everything you do on the computer, or any similar technology for that matter (including game consoles) is just a glorified version of something you could do with pen and paper.

I would LOVE another Pokemon TGC game, for the switch, 3ds or even mobile. I played the crap out of the first one back when I was a kid and later some of that second one too (there was a translated rom..). But just a game without any micro transaction-stuff.. If it was for the switch then it could be digital only and didn't need too much on the graphics side. Nintendo could even just pull out the gameboy ones on switch, slap a 10€ price tag on and call it a day. Would be day one for me.

@molliolli182 Except that they'd hopefully at least add in a way to do card pop, or put those cards in the main game - as it is, in the virtual console version (which you can't connect to others in) it is impossible to complete the card list. I'd definitely love a switch game though, and no mircrotransactions please.

As for the app...no older cards? PASS.

Just imagine how a new Pokémon TCG Game on a modern console could be. Having the ability to trade cards online with friends and players around the world, batteling other players and maybe stuff like online tournaments and promo cards you could get at special events.

I just hope if we ever get a new entry in the series in some form on Switch they don't adopt the style of the Pokémon Trading Card Game online. That american Anime style they use is really unappealing in my opinion.

But to be honest even i'm a bit afraid about the possibility of DLC and microtransactions. They could ruin the game for a lot of people or be totally harmless. As long as you don't get vastly superior cards that way everything should be ok. It should rather just give you cards with some alternate artworks.

@ChibiNinja Oh yeah, definitely! Also online would be nice, trading and battling. But still for me the most important thing would be a solid single player campaing.

With the older sets included, this would be a no-brainer!