Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "POKEMON TRADING CARD GAME POCKET"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Before we get into the Pokemon trading card game pocket announcement, because the game that we all know and love, which is the Pokemon card game that transition into the video game is now having a combination of both as there's a new virtual card collecting game via Pokemon trading card game pocket. it. Now, of course, before we get into that news, unlike people at Nintendo, I am able to bring up their competitor, which is the one and only power. Y'all just know, or y'all just knew I wasn't going to go a whole episode without bringing up the most impactful game launch ever besides, what was it, Dota? no besides PubG I think PubG was the top of all time anyways so why am I bringing them up well currently and I had to look this up because you know I don't like to do fake news around here so I looked it up and PubG obviously had the biggest all-time peak with 3.2 but Power World that came out this year had 2.1 which obviously put it at the top 5 maybe top yeah top 2 So it was the second most impactful launch ever.

Starting point is 00:01:31 But currently, there's 200,000 players currently, concurrently playing the game. So a lot of people will say that, oh, Power World fell off. And obviously, this is a Pokemon segment, so just give me a little bit. I'm about to get through it. But basically, just let people just get a glimpse of what it means to fall off, right?

Starting point is 00:01:54 Because Power World, obviously, is far from falling off. I mean, it's still in the top five. Top one, two, three, four. Yeah, it's literally fifth. It's top five as far as concurrent players in the world. But as of February 22nd, it already has 15 million units. And 15 and 10 million. Well, it's made 15 million on PC via Steam.

Starting point is 00:02:19 And it's made 10 million on Xbox. Sorry, PlayStation players. I guess you aren't got no games. And I'm talking about myself. So anyways. with that being said they've done all they needed to do as far as having a successful game right now they are just keeping the longevity of it as 200,000 concurrent players is more than enough to keep a sustainable ecosystem so with that being said obviously it didn't fall off it just had a

Starting point is 00:02:44 record-breaking peak already made all the money in the world and then some so now it's just having a steady cash flow that's just not at the peak that it once was at so anyways before my Pokemon fanatics get irate at me let's get back into the reason why I'm even making the segment so with the video with the virtual card collecting game a lot of people started to compare this to an nft type of ploy by Pokemon but in response because this was a big concern by the public everybody was saying oh this is an nfti like why they doing this they already know that NFTs are fake while they trying to dabble into that market so it got such traction that the Pokemon company came out well representative from the Pokemon company clarified to Polygon it was an

Starting point is 00:03:39 article that or not article is a company that they have not well they have quote not developed or approved end quote any Pokemon NFTs basically to dispel the rumor that everybody thought this was to get into the NFT market. So obviously they came out and denied it. And they said that any Pokemon related NFTs in the marketplace are deemed unofficial and not affiliated with the Pokemon company. So basically, it's just a game, right? Coming in 2024, as you see right here, you know, shout out to Analytics Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio version. But as far as the overview, the Pokemon trading game,

Starting point is 00:04:25 Pocket is more of a collaborative effort by Pokemon company and DNA. It's like D-E-N-A. So not like, you know, not to be confused with D-N-A. But anyways, developers of Pokemon Masters E-X. And basically this game is to emphasize digital card collecting, introducing immersive cards that offer a unique experience of leaping into the card's illustration. you. So something about the monetization part of it is not or has not been disclosed yet, but this game is confirmed to be free to play or free to start, which is interesting.

Starting point is 00:05:07 It's an interesting choice of words. Free to start is definitely not free to play, but technically you can say Fortnite is free to start. So one could guess there's going to be some type of micro transactions in this mobile game. I mean, mobile games and micro transactions go hand in hand. Honestly, I think if it wasn't for micro transactions, mobile games wouldn't even be popular. So, anyways, allowing players to open two booster packs daily at no cost. So it's like, that was to expound upon the free to start. But it's set to launch 2024 on iOS, Android.

Starting point is 00:05:44 Oh yeah, for iOS and Android. What else? There's some other things about the game. I mean, personally, I don't play mobile games. I'm not going to lie to you. If I'm out and about the last thing, like, I could only, because, you know, time is valuable. I ain't going to lie.

Starting point is 00:06:05 Playing the mobile game to me would mean that I'm somewhere where I'm waiting. But I usually am not somewhere waiting too often. Like, usually I'm going to a place for specific purpose and I come back. Like, I'm not just going somewhere just to hang out. You know what I mean? So, I don't know, a card game via mobile is interesting because obviously Marvel Snap is technically a card game, I think. And that's doing tremendous. So for Pokemon to come out with this after having such an unrelated, well, unrelated to the card game,

Starting point is 00:06:38 having such a monumental game when it comes to Pokemon Go, which basically was a humongous imprint in itself. as far as the evolution of Pokemon, Pokemon Go took it to a whole other level as far as the IP. So now with this new card game, that's obviously unrelated to Pokemon Go, I think that it may influence digital collectible card games, but then that gets back into the notion of NFT, because if something's collectible,

Starting point is 00:07:13 it has perceived value, but it's not really valuable, then what's the difference from it being an NFT? But obviously that's why I've represented, really came out from the Pokemon company to dispel the whole going into the NFT type of lane. So I'll be interested to see where this traditional card game gone virtual ends up doing for Pokemon. I just think the biggest factor right now, the biggest thing Nintendo can do, obviously, is just make

Starting point is 00:07:46 a rip off of Power World because Power World was insanely inspired by Pokemon. So if Pokemon came out with a game like Power World, which I still just, you know, people say like Turcane or whatever, Turkoff is like a mix of Pokemon and Turkoff. I say it's more of a mix off of Minecraft and Pokemon. But, you know, that's my own personal reflection. Well, that's my own personal review of the game. I think Pokemon could literally make a Power World 2.0 and it will have a similar. success um arc like a power world like if Pokemon makes Power World 2.0 it'll have a similar success it will have similar

Starting point is 00:08:37 success basically is what I'm trying to say so anyways it's just a Pokemon's virtual card game at the end of the day but I just wanted to let all the gamers out there who play mobile games to uh know that Pokemon is coming out with a new rendition of the IP via a new virtual card collecting game. So that being said, click my link through my bio. Let me know one of my social media is what do you think about the Pokemon IP going more in a virtual card collecting game type lane? And do you think Pokemon would become more impactful than Power World if they just made a Power World 2.0?

Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "POKEMON TRADING CARD GAME POCKET"

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