Palworld card game hits 3.5 million packs sold before it even officially launchesThe game drops July 30 and pre-sales alone are already historicThe same studio that survived a Nintendo lawsuit is now going after Pokémon on its own turfThe physical card market40 million players, 850,000 concurrent on Steam, number one on SteamDBAnd now 3.5 million packs sold before launch dayIs the Palworld TCG the Pokémon card competitor the market has been waiting for?Are you buying on launch day?
Maybe logan Paul will start a palworld market trading
Bushiroad approached pocketpair for this by the way, not the other way around.Who the fuck is buying all of these though? People who assume it'll be like pokemon levels of popularity? I know people like palworld a lot, myself included, but I can't imagine the Venn diagram for palworld fans, card game fans, and people who are willing to preorder boxes of sets in a card game is very bigI'm positive it's mostly scalpers taking a gambleI'll wait for it to be on cardmarket and buy singles of the pals I like
>>743714174>normies are only interested in palworld for the game>normies are only interested in pokemon for the plushies, cards and f2p mobile slopI don't see this being anywhere as big as pokemon
>>743714174wow, the chinese must be hyped!
>>743715505It doesnt have to be
>>74371556818% of the players are Americans, 5 % Germans. . Cope more https://gamalytic.com/game/1623730
>>743714174Card game market is filled with scalpers and retarded "investors" who buy said scalped items. Every new card game that launches is guaranteed to sell out because of this. If you own a remotely known IP you'd be retarded to not create a physical tcg right now.
>>743714174I want them to sell packs of mini booster cards so i can pass em out on Halloween.Im not passing out pokemon card with the candy anymore
>>743715661>18% of the players are Americans, 5 % Germans
>>743715661>18% of the players are Americans, 5 % GermansSo, if "players" barely go over 1 million, that's 180k Americans and 50k Germans for some reason. Also... no Japanese fanfare at all for such a "Japanese" company.Yeah, this is just speculative Chinese and scalpers. Sorry palcucks, Ziony keeps their losing streak.
>>7437177861 million concurrent players Steam, with console and players playing during 24 hours I bet at least 1 million of Americans are playing it every day, and this is low balling it.
>>743714174>before it even officially launchesSo scalpers have already sunk their claws in, gotcha
pokeysisters on suicide watch
>>743717923>1 million of AmericansOH NO NO NO NO NO
>>>/vp/
>people only buy cards for the resale valueI hate this shit. It killed Magic. It killed Pokemon. I can't even get Garbage Pail Kids cards because of these faggots. All that's left is sports cards and I don't watch sports so FUCK sports cards.
>>743718048I could use some new bath towels and the mini fridge is empty
>>743715505You expect something that came out 2 years ago to be as big as something from the 90s you retard?
>>743718334When you're done crying I'll take a tbone steak medium rare with sautéed onions and mushrooms and a baked potato the vegetable of the day
>>743718235Tell me about it.>oh hey that looks kinda cool, I'll get some>LOL NO YOU WON'T OUT OF STOCK OUT OF STOCK OUT OF STOCK
oh there's a card game? might get some just for some of the cool card art
>>743718146You numbskull. If anything, this would be /tg/ news.
>>743718235This shit should just be regulated as gambling, especially since it's aimed at children. If people could just readily buy the exact cards they wanted to construct their decks and supply could be made to meet that demand it would solve all the problems.
>>743714174>cardboardAll just scammers trying to make a quick buck before it even starts.
>>743714174Speculator market is a hell of a thing for TCG
Card games are just physical gacha.
>>743714174Tendies literally shitting and pissing blood right now in anger, LMAO!
>>743715505>I don't see this being anywhere as big as pokemonYou're compare Pokemon with 30 years of infrastructure with Palworld which has only been out for like 2. Shit like the card game and anime only happened after the game was successful in Japan and companies wanted to work with Pokemon. Another anon compared the revenue in the thread with Pokemon's early revenue and it is about the same. The fact that the card game has quite a bit of interest shows there is a real market for Palworld outside of just the games Whats really going to make the series blow up is Palfarms and the mobile game
>>743714174Hey you seem like you have a lot of money I was wondering if you could buy a new wifi adapter for me
>>743723261Still not happening.
>>743723383Its happening whether you like it or not Tendie
>>743724124Umm no, it's not happening, palsnoy.
>>743723261Do Palsnoys genuinely believe this? Holy shit.
Palsnoys, please stop raping and gaping tendies. They are begging for you to stop, why won't you stop?
>>743717786>Pocketpair literally created their own Palword version of the Pokemon Company with SonyHow come more people don't point this out?
>>743724513I do every chance I get. They haven't posted any news on their site since they announced the damn thing two years ago. Interestingly, they released 1.0 on the same date that they announced Palworld Entertainment (July 10th).
>>743714174that's poggers. I shan't be buying though.
I love palworld and will probably get these, but I do fear the sony angle will make them not release the next one on PC to try to give sony a "Pokemon"
>>743725263>>743724631>>743717786Do you retards have any idea why most franchise that are mainly either game medias or non-media wouldn't survive if they weren't partnered up with any entertainment branch? even pokemon themselves didn't fund their own show and cards it was mainly OLM, oriental light and magic in 1997 so i don't get why you fucks are doomposting about a basic business practice, and don't get me wrong i fucking despise sony besides their record player that gets a pass for its time.
>>74371417495% scalpers
>>743715001Personally, I'd wait untila Palworld anime airs. If it's 49 episodes and aimed for kids, Pokemon is dead.
Where can I actually buy them? Only at these random cons in Narnia?
>>743725684But I'm not doomposting? I just try to remind people it exists, which is hard because there hasn't been any updates on it's own website in two years.
>>743714174>Decide to check out Gamenerdz >The first thing I see on the main page is a Pokemon Mega Evolution - Pitch Black banner>Directly underneath it is the Palworld cards>Check Amazon>No cards, only the official toys and unofficial bootleg slop.>Check Walmart>Same thing, but less bootleg slop.>Check eBay>The free promos and trial decks are selling for a decent amount of money. Preorders seem to be selling extremely well too.I'll probably end up buying a booster box for every set and then just buy singles to get the Pals I want.
>>743715505It isn't built to be, and it shouldn't try to be.If it tries to become the kind of franchise that won't offend grandma, it'll just lose everything that it has. If anything, it'd be safer for it to lean further towards its original concept of being brutal Pokemon.
>>743723432This, but famitsu general posters.
>Go to demo caravan in snakestralia>Verse one of the employees because nobody else was around>I ask about the promo items, he says they don't have any more to give out which I find odd because they only just started>Later in the game says "yeah I got a whole bunch of promos and prototype decks I'm going to sell when the game pops off">Ask where he got them from>"Uhh I just uhh went to a lot of these haha"And that was my first and last experience with the palworld tcg. Not touching it with a ten foot pole.
>>743714174watch this be another what's it called? the one with cryptids, meta... ah right metazoo even the name is hard to recallanyway investorbros gonna POOOOOOOOOMP it but no one's actually going to give a shit about the game part of the card game so it'll just dwindle out in a few years calling it now
>>743729051Pokemon is dead and buried.
>>743729318mindraped and gaped, thoroughly
>>743715001So I was at anime expo a couple weeks ago, and Palworld was THE headliner at Bushiroad's booth. They even limited the product so you could only buy one of each starter deck. Honestly the booth was very busy and it seemed like people were really interested in the gameTCGs are going through a boom right now, I think you're probably under estimating the appeal of nerdy guys that are into palworld who might also want to buy cards of their favorite guys. It's ultimately the same idea behind the Pokemon TCG just with a smaller IP.I think the big buyouts are mostly scalpers, but I do think there is some real demand going on as well. We'll have to wait to see if that demand actually materializes into a sustainable game though. Bushiroad doesn't have the best track record I feel.
>>743725743>If it's 49 episodes and aimed for kidsIt will flop.That's the stupidest way to market Pokemon with guns.A Palworld anime should be something you see on Adult Swim.
>>743729318You're a woman
Lmao, niggas getting excited to preorder packs so they can maybe get some cards graded. Don't even know how this shit plays and you stupid faggots are pulling out your wallets LOL
>>743729628I mean, i am, but that's beside the point.
time is a flat circle
>>743729963Us pallies (palworld fans) are not like this.
How retarded are the people who are still playing this garbage?
>>743714174>The last time Paltard cried over Nintendo or Pokemon: 0.000001 milliseconds agoMindbroken little faggot
>>743730268Which one?
>>743729685Good to know I'm still adept at detecting emotional gaslighters
>>743730268They're not retarded, they're just women.
>>743730302Palslop, unfinished survival crafting games should not last this long. I assume very few people here are playing the latest Pokémon
>>743730440Um, it's a good game and it's finished now? Why aren't i supposed to play it?
>>743730440I've only played Palworld and ARK, but Palworld is like ARK but good.The way that the Pals are implemented is so smooth.
>>743730638No, I've played both as well. Palworld is not good. Certainly not better than ARK.
As someone who has to work normoids i tell you, palworld is next pokemon, at least until next big thing
>>743730440What kills me is pals are still getting stuck in your bases, this has been a thing since EA and is still a thing on release.You need a mod to fix it.Also for some retarded reason they refuse to use hot springs sometimes causing them to get sick and stop working non-stop while gaining constant injuries.
>>743730672lol
>>743730697The devs probably don’t know how to code
>>743730638Palworld put all their work into the Pals themselves while the Open World Survival shit is pretty bad in comparison.If anything it looked like they just smashed what they did in Craftopia with Pokemon.Probably why Craftopia is practically abandoned right now.
Palworld RAPED and GAPED nintendo.
>Nintendo nijas having to work overtime for another yearYou have no mercy?
>>743730825>>743730768Holy upvote! Take that nintendo fags!
>>743730668>>743730747Palworld has better combat and movement than ARK, and that means that exploration is more fun.I'd agree that ARK has more interesting environments (Palworld should completely rework caves and add a giant underwater area) and I kinda prefer the way that base building is handled there, but they fail at the most important part. The difficulty comes from it being a clunky game.
>>743715001>Who the fuck is buying all of these though?no oneGive it a couple of months and they'll be giving these cards away for free
>>743714174Nintendo lost so much money over this kek. They never even managed to sue, they just paid millions in lawyer fees to attempt to sue.
>>743730975Whatever helps you cope, palbrony.
>>743714174I mean Pokémon is 100% dead so people kinda want to find a new monster collector.
>>743731190Are you a woman too?
>>743731190>I mean Pokémon is 100% deadAre you actually retarded?
Now Palworld just needs hebes and Nintenbro is done
>>743731320100% dead to anyone with a shred of taste or standards.
>>743715774Go back to /shart/
The card game is a better representative than the vidya as a competitor to Pokemon because it has turn based combat.
>>743725743>aimed for kidsIt has guns and ball.
>>743714174Palworld seems nice but I dont see the appeal in a trading card aspect. I would rather collect metazoo cards at that point.
>>743719815Anything that's collectible with a gambling element is gacha.Cards games aren't inherently gacha, since the vast majority of card games use a standard 52 card deck of playing cards.Pokemon and Palworld cards are inherently gacha.
>>743714174tcgs are bubbling right now, anything with scalping value leave the shelves in a seconds
>>743731373>He says in a world of normalfagsI guess you are retarded then.
it's a mechanical copy of shadowverse evolveand evolve is notorious for being such a dumbed down low skill ceiling card game that you can learn and master a deck in an afternoonafter which most matches are essentially mirror matches and decided by who draws their wincon earlierit's fun for casual play but it has no competitive future
>>743731867I'm not the first anon, I'm just saying pokemon has become rancid dogwater and the people who still like it are shiteaters.
>>743731903lol they didn't even bother to try make something original after all
>>743731373if you are saying Pokemon as a whole, everything, then not at all. Pokemon fangames keep trying to innovate more and more.mainline? arguable.
Based Palworld
>>743724124Trvke
>>743732068Fangames are a whole other thing and something gamefreak and nintendo would wipe off the face of the earth if they could.
>>743714174Whales will buy anything and TCG is the original Gacha.
>>743715001i just want to buy some palworld merch, honestly.
>>743723432The funny thing is that there are 2 game series locked to their own containment boards
Unsuccessful niche slop. You dumbfuck Snoys keep huffing that copium.
>>743730768>40m """"Players"""""Oh grandma, what a great big dubious metric you have.
>>743733395its in line with the concurrent players over 2 years EAnot sure why accepting this is so hard for you
>>743729459Just looking at these, if you can get these stocked on the same section that has Pokemon cards at a Walmart you could bet 100% kids who have an interest in Pokemon are either going to confuse these for Pokemon cards and want them, or want them because they're similar to Pokemon cards.
pokemon cards and merch in general is wholly infested with losers who will literally camp out in front of a walmart at 12 am just to be first in line for the next day's shipment of etbs so it would be really funny if younger generations end up getting attached to the cope option
>>743733459>Sales went up by 5million in 2 years># of Players went up by 20millionOkay Bucky
>>743714174can't wait to see the vids of asshole scalpers and other various crimes committed over Palwrld cards.
>>743731903>it's a mechanical copy of shadowverse evolveWhat? It uses the combat mechanic of DM, the energy of OP (without the attach gimick), there's no equivalent to SV's evolve.The game doesn't look particularly novel, but I have no idea why you'd lie like this.
>>743715505>I don't see this being anywhere as big as pokemonof course you don't, you're deliberately ignoring the fact that pokemon started as a game, a card game and an anime before getting into plushies and f2p mobile slop
>>743733395>>743733806it's on gamepassif people boot the game up for 5 seconds and then close it again, it counts as a playerif people see it in their family library and boot the game up it also probably counts as a playermaybe even counts people that refunded the game
>>743717786Stupid indian>Snoy Music>Aniplex
>>743714174This shit is gonna be Metazoo 2.0Only investors and no players.
>>743714174It's sad to see nintendo go out like this but serves them right for keeping their games too stale
>scalpers buy up all the actual Pokemon cards>dumb parents/scalpers buy Palworld cards thinking they’re some sort of Pokemon offshootI’m guessing this is the business strategy here
>>743714174Cute small numbers. Won't even do better than the One Piece TCG.
>>743731320NTA but its fair to say Pokemon is stagnating. Even the games sales, which seem impressive, are propped up by people buying both versions to the point where this is becoming a viable strategy for the company. The TCG is only kept alive by scalpers. Outside of Japan, it's a declining brand. This is the reason Palworld took off in the first place. The risk from Palworld isn't that its going to completely replace Pokemon but will steal its marketshare. There is a real risk Palworld becomes for the game for teen to 30 year olds where Pokemon is for 40 year olds who grew up on the game and little kids who will just move onto Palworld once they get older (this has always been a problem for Nintendo. Appeal to kids but offer nothing once they get old enough where Bing Bing Wahoo seems a little cringe).
>>743714174Imagine buying cards that are AI drawn. Kek.
>>743714174My son got into magic instead of pokemon because of scalpers. If it wasnt magic, it would probably have been digimon or some other card game. Market is overly saturated with this stuff and unfortunately most of it is now scalpers or fortune hunters pivoting from pokemon.
>Bushiroad's making itOh, I can't wait to see what they'll->Their most popular TCG is Weiss Shawartz, the card game whose "art" is taking screen caps and key art and pass them off as card artOh. Nevermind.
>>743714174reminder that there's a free browser fanmade sim for the palworld tcg already, here:https://palworldtcgsim.com/so you can just try it outit has a tutorial too
>>743743276palworld tcg has card illustrations made specifically for it
>>743714174Nintendo should sue all of you.
>>743744981I don't much care for the TCG, but I love the art.
>>743745897yeah a lot of really good onesi hope that if they ever print panthalus as a card the art goes hardi do like the card game but i've always been a card game enthusiast, it's one of those things you need a specific kind of autism to enjoy i'd say
>>743744981>>743746047Bro you can't just post these, you must pay 4$ for virtual cards
>>743744981>>743746047>no artist creditedai art for an ai-generated franchise.grim, but also fitting.
I hate that scalpers ruined TCG now that I have disposable income. I dream of a Friday night where I can just walk into a Target, get a couple of booster boxes, pick up some sloppa, then sit at my desk and crack open some packs/organize a binder into the AM.
>>743731373>>743742723I say this as someone who doesn't give a shit about pokemon: you are ODing on copium. Step outside of your room where your world view is the only right one and take a look around
>>743747189It's just a lottery with lower prizes and an even lower chance of you winning anything.
Lmao tendies are seriously psychotic. Palworld has literally mindraped you "people"
>>743746837I am curious, why do you use such an unappealing image for your post? The character looks very ugly
>>743714174card games are speculations for retards. everybody is making them now. one piss, cyberpunk, kpop demon hunter, mlp. the whole deal is to pay actors to open fake packs full of artificially rare shit (as in, you decided it was rare first), then you sell it to kids and retards like OP at 10-30 dollars per card while printing them at 0.000001 cent a piece. it's literally snake oil scams and people fall for it.
>>743747691it's bait, seeing such an ugly image makes people more likely to give him attentionon top of being annoyed by the retardation at display you are also annoyed by the disgusting image and feel even more compelled to reply
>>743723432
>>743714174Wow, 3.5M? Pokémon is finished!
>>743748396Pokémon is already banned to a containment board, retard. It's called /vp/.
>>743747301>"you are ODing on copium">Is creating copiumLook Tendie you have to accept this game is successful at this point. Palworld has been in the top 10 most played games on Steam twice. The TCG already has a lot of presales. Once the lawsuit is over, you will see more deals being made. And yes, a game with guns and slavery is going to be more popular than a game where everything is solved by friendship. There is a reason Nintendo not only tried to get patents to stop Palworld but also the unreleased mobile game.And yes you are a Tendie. The way I know is you quoted two post thinking they are the same person and they aren't. This is the universal Tendie tell
>>743718114Lately I’ve noticed ESL REALLY struggle with using “million” correctly it’s so funny, they don’t see it as an actual number so you’ll constantly see>it sold 7 millions copiesBecause they think “millions” has to agree with “copies”
>>743748684Yet Pokefags still drag their fat asses over here, maybe if /vp/ wasn't so dry and the games being so shit they would stop migrating here
>>743731516So perfect?
>>743744981>>743746047the backgrounds in these cards are 100% going to be AI shit with plenty of mistakes, kek. the pals might even be AI, just take a screenshot of one in-game and ask gemini to give it a hand drawn look
>>743748592
>>743742723are there actual statistics on how many people actually buy both versions
>>743748845I'm sure the people posting pokemon threads here don't even know there is a whole board for it. But the board culture is indeed different than here.
>>743747691cause he's a millennial same with his accusations of ai art which is a common trait with digital artists nowadays since the surge of ai use so now they fight other artists and accuse each other of ai with no proof whatsoever
I wish my local card shop was better because the closest one to me barely has anything not MtG. How do you even preorder anyways I feel like I can't see any option on their site or on global Bushiroad.https://bushiroad-store.com/products/2000287798216There's this but they as usual don't ship internationally.
>>743714174but physical media is dead
>>743715001>but I can't imagine the Venn diagram for palworld fans, card game fans, and people who are willing to preorder boxes of sets in a card game is very bigTCG collectors are their own thing, they're whales and I wouldn't be surprised to see a large number of them jumping on something they see as having potential.
>>743715505>Seen people hurt people for Pokémon and One Piece boosters at the local Target>Everything else is chill.I don't think Palworld has anything to worry about. It won't be as big. Hell they keep advertising it but I don't see it in my local comic book shop where they'd have it. Huh, is it really as big as it seems?
>>743715001>but I can't imagine the Venn diagram for palworld fans, card game fans, and people who are willing to preorder boxes of sets in a card game is very bigyour issue is thinking that they have to be in a venn diagram to be interesteda lot of card game players try new upcoming TCGs just for the fun of it, because they like cardgames, even if it's from an IP that they have 0 knowledge or experience about (i know a lot of people whose introduction to digimon was basically the TCG and they only played it because it seemed like a good game)people who collect, be it card collectors or palworld fans, will also want to get the cards even if they are not as interested in trying out the gamethere's no universe where this TCG becomes as big as pokemon TCG, and i'd even doubt it'll become as big as something like digimon or lorcana, but that wouldn't really make it a flop anyways and i think it'll do well enough
it's all scalpers. I hate everything, not that I give a single fuck about any trading card games, but this shit is pathetic. none of these scalpers are even making that much money, it's chump change. The only ones making money are the ones spending like hundreds of thousands of dollars, and even then the margins aren't worth it over just dumping that kind of money into the S&P
>>743743276Weiss Schwarz is only the "most popular" in the west because of it being Waifu fortnite, an the screen caps are a part of thatFor their other properties, like the HololiveOCG and Palworld too, they use actual artists
>>743744981man i would like to buy some but this shit looks like literal ai
>>743744981>Official palworld cards are AI SlopFitting
>>743755696No.
>>743748396Palfags can’t meme.
PLAY FORCE OF WILL
>>743756002I DO!
>>743715001people said the same thing with Pokemon cards.
>>743714174PalDomination
>>743749212I can guarantee you they know /vp/ exists but they also know their thread would die there so they post here instead
If I had a dollar for everytime I had to answer with "No, we only have Perfect Order and Chaos Rising."Motherfuckers out there thinking that we'll just randomly get some 151 booster boxes. Cunts pushing and shoving over fucking shiny cardboard.
>>743755335it's not AI lol, fags just keep spouting that
>>743714174It's all scalper, they all "invest" in any card game from any IP with a modicum of popularity in hopes to make the big bucks.Pocket Pair should just keep printing more cards until they get tired of it.
soooooooo what do the high rarity cards look like? You need to have everything in a base print and some high rarity chase cards in some autistic foiling.
>>743758535https://en.palworld-official-cardgame.com/cardlist
>>743714174that shit looks kinda expensive ngl
>>743719623>This shit should just be regulated as gambling, especially since it's aimed at children. If people could just readily buy the exact cards they wanted to construct their decks and supply could be made to meet that demand it would solve all the problems.Whats sad, is that you wrote this post unironically, and you don't realize how fucking stupid it sounds.You act like the secondary market doesn't exists.You want TCG space to be regulated for gambling, even though the entire TCG model is gambling. Like, TCG aren't like monopoly or Uno for a reason, because the chase, scarcity and rarity is part of it.
>>743748838That's how it works in other languages tbdesu.
>buying palworld tcg when I can get my kid this instead.I will skip it. You guys enjoy your pokeymans.
>>74375908740 a box is actually way cheaper than what you'd expect from the other popular TCGs
>>743715001The Digimon Card Game WAS popular too, until Bandai decided Wan Piss needed more money.
>>743725743We're well past the era of an anime airing on children TV having a massive cultural impactMost kids these days are on the internet and I highly doubt they can rally behind a single IP like previous generations did for Pokemon, Dragon Ball, TMNT, etc.
>>743759635By next year, both Palslop and Italianslop will hold the same value anyway.
>>743757381Got any Phantasmal Flames?
>>743758978BASED
>>743761812Who are they firing at?
>most alt arts are just zoomed inFunny, but also dogshit I wonder if the artists at bushiroad themselves don't want to be credited just in case they get into trouble with nintendo later on or something, it feels so weird The monster arts look nice though, despite the suspect backgrounds (and I hate that I'm saying that part)
>>743764198Nintendo is so petty I wouldn't be surprised if they were running AI algorithms to track who drew art for the Palworld tcg
Man scalpers buy the dumbest shit. How are they not getting fucked on dead stock?
>>743749153Nothing specific but we have an idea. From the Teraleaks, some of the titles have 40-50% of their early adopters buying both games. It varies from title to title, but its a bigger portion of sales than anyone realized. The slide in question was debating how to make more money and one of the arguments against raising the price is it might eat into these multi-purchases. For how big this is, if S/V has 20% of its users buy both games, then the 28 million sales looks more like 22 million players which is far smaller than Pokemon. It may also explain why the spin offs seem to do far less than the main games (they don't have an extra copy to buy). It may be why Nintendo is freaking out so much and even trying to get patents against a mobile game was haven't even seen yet. Pokemon is more reliant on whales then previously thought.
>>743767736That is an insane amount of people who buy both games
>>743767736I wonder how many of those people are just resellers. In thirdie countries it's common for import shops to just fly over to the US and buy a bunch of copies on GameStop to be able to get stock on release day
>>743715001>Who the fuck is buying all of these though?I'm kinda tempted to get a pack myself. I don't the card came will ever get going, but cards are some fun gimmick march to buy as a one off.
>>743715001>BushiroadDoes PalWorld have enough waifu monsters for them? Do they even have signatures?
>>743761812Fuck I actually kind of want this oneRest of them do nothing for me I'll just wait to see if I can pick up a single cheap
>>743714174yeah it might be over for pokemon, wow