New Card Collecting App 'Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket' Launches This Year

Seeing DeNA associated with this probably means more monetization that makes some of the worst gacha games blush.

Gonna be unplayable if you're not the type to drop unholy amounts of money on mobile games.

And look...
Some peoples will start to scalp the virtual Pokemon card and sell with crazy price for unfortunate souls.

You can also just download a .jpg from Google and trade that.

The only real takeaway I had on that, since I don't care about the TCG at all, is that the having to slide a finger across the screen to open packs thing looked really stupid and obnoxious and janky compared to just pressing a button which makes me really confused why they seemed so proud of it.

Looks alright, but the pull rates will probably be terrible unless you buy whatever money is used in game.

feels a bit NFT to me.

This could be fun at least, depending on how aggressive their microtransactions are going to be. This sounds like a title where I won't mind those being present though, but again that depends. I'll probably give it a try.

50% of the presentation was this. I was worried this was the final announcement since they were spending so long on it

Hey yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh yeah yeahhhh wooo!

Imagine a life where having someone send you a digital copy of an Eevee card can give you just a little bit of happiness.

This was the best part of the presentation for me.

I actually like the work DeNA does for the most part, and as an old time fan of the TCG, I'm for a new take that's easy on the wallet.

Sure, there will be a ton of microtransactions I'm sure, but as long as I can have fun playing random TCG matches anywhere, I'm for it!

Honestly this game gives me yugioh duel link vibes where they made the matches much shorter by reducing the deck size. Honestly pretty excited. Hopefully I’ll have enough space on my phone when it comes out.

Curious if this is 100% separate from the existing TCG app. I enjoy the TCG, so I'll probably try this out for a bit.

Anybody notice they filmed in France? It was a subtle hint for Pokemon Legends Z-A!

@Uncle_Franklin That’s not how NFTs work

@Lizuka Fun fact I remember playing the SNK vs capcom card fighters on the DS years ago and they also had something similar to what they showed in the trailer for this game where you use the touch screen to slide a pair of scissors across the touch screen to open booster packs.

Interested if F2P is okay and I can get some MyNintendo Platinum Points.

Not going to sink money into something I don't physically own like actual Pokemon cards, that would be too like Ultimate Teams on those sports games.

@PBNightmare TBH all trading cards have super rare cards and the rates in a mobile game are probably (key word probably) more generous then actual card packs. 😅

I knew they'd get me with something like this eventually. Unfortunately for them, I am already fully acclimated to slowly grinding free pulls out of gacha games without spending any actual money.

I've been out of the TCG for quite a while. If the monetization isn't really egregious, I might give it a look.

The "Immersive cards" thing is a pretty cool concept

Looks they are getting sick of all the drama around the physical cards. I wonder if this will eventually phase out the physical cards?

@Uncle_Franklin May want to look up what NFT's are buddy

I liked this announcement. I miss playing the TCG and with them giving two free packs every day, I wouldn't mind giving this a shot and see how it goes. It does give the same vibes as Yu-Gi-oh duel links, which is not a bad thing at all. Quick and fun games.

Probably trying to phase out physical cards so we can't actually own those either, lol.

Imagine the microtransactions this will come with. And amazingly, people will go for it

Wait, free cards...?

@link12684

I said "feels a bit",
not "is exactly akin to".

This was the secondary highlight from the Pokemon Presents that caught my eye. It's something I'll try if it isn't aggressively monetized...and if the gacha system for the free packs is fair compared to the ones you buy.

LOOKS way better than TCG Online! Hated the Fortnite looking avatars and useless effects on that app.

This seems more simple, minimal, and focused on just cards!

Surprised it's taken this long, seems a no brainer to bring card collecting to smartphones. I'd love a card game on Switch like the Game Boy one they did before. I suppose there are just too many sets to collect now though

@sevex you can say that about most birthday gifts always.

I think this will be huge when it releases, honestly. Not Pokemon Go huge, but not far off. It looks simpler than their other app and looks easily addictive.
I would hope there was a way to "earn" packs though, through walking or something.

@Uncle_Franklin then again, how is this more “like NFTs” than all previous Pokemon TCG apps they’ve had in the past…? (Or any other trading card game, for that matter) The basic functionality seems to be nearly identical, except with shorter battles.

@Axecon yeah I know it was scary, the amount of mobile stuff they put in to pokemon presents is ridiculous. Wish we could get new side games on console like pinball or ranger.

@Anti-Matter people don't like it when you tell the truth

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Awesome I'll be sure to get on everyday and open my free packs so I can collect 20,00 oddishes.

You know what's even better than overpriced printed paper? VIRTUAL overpriced printed paper!

@Dom_31 As long as they give out free packs then it won't be bad to just passively collect free cards for the sake of just having what you get.

Paying likely won't be necessary unless you want every card or want to be competative ... which is fine really.

Mobile games need people to pay to keep their continuous development cycle going. That's just how it works. But as long as paying is a choice and not a hard requirement to fuction in the game then it's good enough.

As someone that used to collect the cards I'm mildly looking foward to it ... might even drop a LITTLE money on it. But I have no intention of spending a lot.

Still making their already well established cardgame a digital mobile game was a good move. It won't even hurt card sales since people that want to collect physical cards will still want to do so.

@Anti-Matter IDK scalping might be a bit hard. You can likely buy cards for your account but they are digital so it's not like you can buy them all up.

You can also trade but that's card to card so unless there is a way to sell individual cards the only way to profit would be an unofficial market system of "you pay me and I trade this good card for one of your junk cards".

Scalping happens because of physical limited quantity which isn't really the case here.

Now what's more likely to happen is people build up account with lots of good cards and then sell the entire account people have been doing that with Gatcha games for ages. But that market is limited since you have to build up each account.

@Uncle_Franklin This isn't at all like NFT.

NFT was the attempt at using a blockchain digital reciet to pretend an indavidual png image was a unique and "valuable" artwork and that you could monetize the hell out of it. There were a lot of issues with it

But this is more like lootboxes if you want a comparison outside of Gatcha games themselves. It's spending money for randomly obtained digital items. Those digital items aren't framed as unique, but you have to get them on YOUR account to have access to them yourself. But that's kinda how the physical cards were too so really it's just a digital version of what they had before.

I like the normal deck size and format of TCG… wonder if TCG Online will stick around as well. I was playing it a lot until the last couple months

@Bobb Nah, why would it. I definitely don't see that happening. No way.

Might download this just to 'ooh' and 'ahh' at the pretty Pokemon images. Seeing that adorable Slowpoke card art brought back some nostalgic feels at least.