Pokémon Buying and selling Card Sport Pocket gamers will get to commerce “sure playing cards” come 2025, the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations crew introduced Wednesday. After launching in late October, Pokémon TCG Pocket has been a wild hit: The sport has reportedly made greater than $12 million throughout greater than 10 million downloads. Opening booster packs, accumulating playing cards, after which battling with them has been the massive draw because the sport’s launch date, however buying and selling has at all times been on the docket. Now, gamers know when to anticipate it — in January. However the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations crew isn’t going to open the buying and selling flood gates, as a substitute opting to maintain the performance restricted to “sure playing cards.”
“We’re planning to step by step develop the collection of playing cards which can be capable of be traded,” the operations crew wrote.
The addition of buying and selling is extremely anticipated, nevertheless it may essentially change the sport, one thing that The Pokémon Firm acknowledged at a press occasion held in November. “We all know introducing buying and selling right into a sport all about assortment goes to have vital implications,” a Pokémon Firm consultant stated on the preview occasion. “We wish to see how persons are enjoying the sport and what the easiest way we may do that in a approach that is sensible for TCG Pocket could be.”
Whereas buying and selling remains to be just a few months out, although, the Pokémon TCG Pocket crew did say Wednesday that it plans so as to add new booster packs “by the top of the yr,” however didn’t specify a date. Different “new options” are in growth, too, which the corporate plans to announce extra sooner or later.