Pokémon TCG Pocket to get buying and selling in 2025, new boosters this yr

Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket Gamers will get to commerce “sure playing cards” come 2025, the Pokémon TCG Pocket operations workforce 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, gathering playing cards, after which battling with them has been the large draw for the reason that 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 workforce 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 progressively develop the collection of playing cards which can be capable of be traded,” the operations workforce wrote.

The addition of buying and selling is very anticipated, however it may basically 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 mentioned on the preview occasion. “We need to see how individuals are enjoying the sport and what one of the simplest ways we may do that in a method that is sensible for TCG Pocket can be.”

Whereas buying and selling continues to be a couple of months out, although, the Pokémon TCG Pocket workforce 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.