The development team of “Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket” (PTCG Pocket), a trading card mobile game published by The Pokémon Company and jointly developed with Creatures Inc. and DeNA Co., Ltd., has announced the introduction of a “card exchange” function in 2025. , the new expansion pack is expected to be launched at the end of this year.
“PTCG Pocket” has been launched on the global mobile dual-platform Android and iOS since the end of October. Revenue exceeded US$12 million within four days and downloads exceeded 30 million times within ten days. In the game, you can draw virtual card packs and PTCG battles, but card transactions The function has been “scheduled to be added in future updates”, so players who have completed the target collection are looking forward to it.
The development team announced that “PTCG Pocket” will continue to hold various in-game activities in the future. The card trading function will be implemented after a major update in January 2025 at the earliest. However, not all cards can be exchanged and will be limited to some cards first. , and gradually expand the range of tradeable cards.
“Collecting” has always been the main fun of trading card games. The opening of “card trading” is bound to have a comprehensive impact on the game ecology. For example, the popular card store management game “TCG Card Shop Simulator” has only recently opened for trading.
After “PTCG Pocket” opens for trading, it is foreseeable that the difficulty of obtaining fantasy cards that must be obtained by collecting all 150 types of Pokémon in Kanto will be reduced, and the pain point of repeated card opening will also be alleviated.
In addition, “PTCG Pocket” plans to add new supplementary packs before the end of this year. In addition to the trading function, “there are other new functions under development.” The exact update schedule will be announced in the future.
Hi everyone! Today, I’d like to share a brief statement by the #PokemonTCGPocket Team about more immediate updates coming to the game in the next few months.
I look forward to sharing more details with everyone as they become available! pic.twitter.com/eaN35vRpSw
— Pokémon TCG Pocket (@PokemonTCGP) November 13, 2024