The tournaments are likely adults, but the IP is definitely being sold to kids and I wouldn’t be surprised if childhood is when most players first start playing.
Pokemon has a vested interest in keeping the tournament scene kid friendly even if most of the players are adults.
Not at the show I frequent. When I say I’m close with store owners, our kids have sleep overs. So I assume you in getting their full opinions because I’ve brought this up with the new my little pony tcg. It’s overwhelmingly adults. Even for my little pony. Sold out in a day to adults, every single one. The majority of those guys open in store.
The kids aren’t in tournaments for the most part, you get one or two sometimes in a big one. The trade shows are mostly adults. They aren’t buying boxes off of eBay for $300 a pop. They aren’t buying from stores.
Maybe it’s different outside the US 🤷♂️ but we someone with close ties to owners and a wife spending 6k a year on cards I fail to see more than a paltry amount and I have never seen the kids at school playing Pokemon or any other tcg outside once playing mtg. I just feel like I would have seen some modest population of kids at some point.
But the IP is still for children and it is still very likely that Game Freak and Nintendo want to make sure that the IP stays kids friendly even if the card game is mainly played by adults.
The tournaments are likely adults, but the IP is definitely being sold to kids and I wouldn’t be surprised if childhood is when most players first start playing.
Pokemon has a vested interest in keeping the tournament scene kid friendly even if most of the players are adults.
Not at the show I frequent. When I say I’m close with store owners, our kids have sleep overs. So I assume you in getting their full opinions because I’ve brought this up with the new my little pony tcg. It’s overwhelmingly adults. Even for my little pony. Sold out in a day to adults, every single one. The majority of those guys open in store.
The kids aren’t in tournaments for the most part, you get one or two sometimes in a big one. The trade shows are mostly adults. They aren’t buying boxes off of eBay for $300 a pop. They aren’t buying from stores.
Maybe it’s different outside the US 🤷♂️ but we someone with close ties to owners and a wife spending 6k a year on cards I fail to see more than a paltry amount and I have never seen the kids at school playing Pokemon or any other tcg outside once playing mtg. I just feel like I would have seen some modest population of kids at some point.
But the IP is still for children and it is still very likely that Game Freak and Nintendo want to make sure that the IP stays kids friendly even if the card game is mainly played by adults.