Random: Now Pokémon Is Getting Its Own 'TCG' Rip-Off On The Switch eShop

Fools and their money, etc. We live in an age where you can look up info on anything with the device in your pocket. It'd be great if this stuff didn't exist but that's the world. Takes 30 seconds to check out something before buying, if someone can't put in the slightest effort before pulling the trigger on a purchase I don't feel bad for them. Far as kids go, I've seen my kids make a $10 mistake like that despite the advice given and that's a cheap going rate for discovering the world is full of ripoffs.

What makes it even worse is it's a rip-off of the viral Steam game, TCG Card Shop Simulator

@kevinm360 Thank you for that. I was confused because I thought there was a card shop simulator game that people actually liked.

That header image is such a bad AI image. She's not holding the cards properly, and she has multiple fingers at unusual places.

Classic rip-off...

just another piece of slop to throw on the trash heap that is the e-shop!! yippee!!! woo!!

That Nintendo can't hire even a stagiaire to filter out those things goes far beyond my understanding. Whoever publishes this kind of thing should also be banned from the eShop forever in my opinion. I really cannot understand how difficult this can be.

What's even worse is that art is based on a real person. I can't think of her name but she's the Gamer Girl Bathwater person.

When you're popular, there are going to be copycats.

Listen, shovelware? That's fine - It can be silly (for the educated people, if not the poor, unsuspecting parents trying to buy a game for their kids). It's basically inevitable.
But AI? Blatant plagiarism? It's not acceptable in environment that, while still fairly new and not respected by some of the public, is a literal art form. If this keeps up we could have another Video Game Crash, because people just won't know what's good or, worse, what's even real as a game. I suppose the bright side of that is that with the rise of digital games most of the shovelware is generally relegated to the eShop, so it won't affect most peoples' opinions buying the system for the first time as physical games are the first and main thing they see.
Nonetheless, this kind of behavior is disgusting and unfortunate. And honestly, it's just such a Nintendo thing to do to not moderate their own shop at all and allow obvious plagiarism for their own products. Fantastically ironic!

If it`s a sh...t don`t buy it ? ( I`m not talking about blind fans
of originals ) Problem solved - it`s always good to have a choice !

@olliemar28 this isn’t a pokemon knock off. It’s a knock off of the viral steam hit TCG Card Shop Simulator which is an actual great game. Ps5 has had issues with both Card Shop Sim knock offs and Supermarket Sim knockoffs lately a lot too.

It’s time the official products make the jump to psn and the eshop.

This game is actually quite popular. I have seen alot of my classmates playing it on there phones.

@beltmenot this is the ripoff of that game

I sense a disturbance in the cards...

Randomly waiting on PowerWash Simulator rip off.

What kind of world is this anyway! Games rippin' off games rippin' off real life...crazy.

...This isn't a Pokemon TCG rip-off....this a TCG Card Shop Simulator rip-off...

Are we just accusing any game having monsters in it in any way to be the rip-off of the latest Pokemon game? This is obviously a rip-off of TCG Card Shop Simulator and not PTCGP in any way - the only thing even similar between the two is you open packs, which is in literally every TCG game ever. Even compared to PTCG Live that's the only similarity.

The art is a different thing but the abbreviation TCG isn’t really exclusive to Pokémon.

This game probably sucks but "TCG" didn't begin with Pokemon. Come now.

@betterthanvegas Belle Delphine?

@Owozifa This too. Pokemon didn't create the abbreviation nor are they they only ones to use it. Even if they were the first to consistently use it, it's a generic abbreviation of a common term for an entire market. The only thing of remote substance is the AI art, and there's games with AI art all over the eShop, so why is this even an article?

AI art is such a blight.

Game has quite obvious AI art used at literally any moment it can. Thank you Mr. Banker, but No Deal.
Also, this is just my opinion, but I see no point in reporting on this stuff. As others have said, there’s nothing that’s directly ripping off Pokémon here. You could say this is ripping off any other TGC and it would be a similar argument. Obviously, the AI art to me is the big talking point, but to be fair, so much trash on the eShop uses AI art, and there’s no articles on here about those, so….
If anything, I’m just upset Nintendo are even allowing AI generated asset flip trash on their system. I at least can tell AI apart from actual art, but even then, Little Jimmy might not know, and waste his precious eShop voucher on rubbish like this.

@rta I believe there's already a Powerwash riffer, keyword-bingo title and all:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/wash-simulator-clean-garage-house-cars-business-tycoons-switch/

This game is really successful on Steam from what I can remember, and it worries me given that it's a ton of Ai slop. The art they use is Ai, down to the promo image seen in this post. The idea is cool, but it would be neater if the game was actually paying artists to make the art- and if they made card games based off of more than just Pokemon. Stuff like Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic the Gathering. I guess though that it would take creativity for them to do something like that, let alone create their own unique card game. Might as well just ape off of stuff that already exists whilst making it "legally distinct" but using Ai.

Funnily enough in the US, using Ai art means that you can't actually copyright your "work." This means you can technically steal Ai pieces and use them for your own gain if a company attempts to use it in their own games. I don't know why anyone would want to do that, given that it's slop- but it's something you can do if you wish.

Edit: Wait no, this game is actually a rip-off of another game apparently. This game is called "TCG Card Shop Master," while the other game is called "TCG Card Shop Simulator." So it's not even just an uninspired game. It's a rip-off of an uninspired game!

@RupeeClock I don't think any of the big three are filtering this garbage out honestly. Not only is this an issue on the Nintendo end of things, but there's an Ai Generated rip-off of Monster Hunter called "Monster Hunters" on PS5. It isn't out yet, but even the description for the game is pretty much just a plagiarized version of the one for Monster Hunter Wilds listing- only changed slightly by what you can clearly tell is just CHATGTP.

It never fails to amaze me on how low Ai has brought people. Now it's easier than before to churn out slop rip-off games using Ai generated art and assets. They're not good games on their own, but they don't have to be. All they have to do is confuse people into thinking the game is what they're looking for by having a similar title and similar art.

@JJtheTexan It's a bit frustrating because it's hard to get a Switch Dev kit.

I suspect what happens is these companies propose 1 legitimate game (this one probably that drone racing game), get approved then there just may not be any stringent standards once you've got the dev kit and are licensed. So the floodgates open.

They unironically had the right idea back in the NES-era where they imposed yearly limits for publishers to prevent a flood of low quality games (Maybe with a whitelist for established trustrd ones this time lol, i think they can trust Ubisoft, Konami, Square, Capcom,etc. to have an unlimited release).

The eShop wouldn't be filled with as much garbage if smaller publishers could only release a limited number of games per year. But I see no good reason a small publisher like this spamming AI garbage shouldn't be limited to publishing 3 games a year.

Cool AI art, bro! Lol. This is... something...

@drypaphmrbro Thank you, I couldn't remember her name for the life of me.

That AI image looks so hideous and shady.