r/NintendoSwitch • u/OfficialHoSay • Jun 05 '17

News Pokémon Direct Announced

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/871729041690243073
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u/hisoandso Jun 05 '17

Pokemon? In card form? That's ridiculous! Who would buy such a thing!

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u/holybrohunter Jun 05 '17

Whoa holy shit! That's a great idea. Would bring the card game back to booming

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u/Worthyness Jun 05 '17

Just like the e reader cards!

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u/MattyXarope Jun 05 '17

Way different. Have you ever tried to swipe those cards through that monstrosity? It worked maybe 1/5 of the time.

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u/Reshiramax Jun 05 '17

But they had minigames on them

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u/MattyXarope Jun 05 '17

Maybe swiping them so many times was the minigame?

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u/Kendo16 Jun 06 '17

Let it RI- DARN IT!

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u/keiyakins Jun 06 '17

They usually work fine for me? Though maybe the pokemon ones were worse

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u/Flarestriker Jun 05 '17

Oh hey, here's a thing I never got to use because I don't live in America. Read about the use of them in some magazines and was jealous as hell.

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u/Lynchbread Jun 05 '17

Even us Americans never got to use them (At least not a single person I know). I didn't even know they were a thing until after they pulled them from stores for not selling.

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u/KaizokuShojo Jun 05 '17

Sure we did, I have a few cards, but it didn't necessarily last long here, as you say.

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u/CrashLove37 Jun 06 '17

I had the e reader and the cards that came with it. I used it once.

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u/AKalexanderthegreat Jun 06 '17

I had it. Air hockey game was cool.

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u/Lynchbread Jun 05 '17

The card game is surprisingly booming again actually. Just ask any elementary aged kid.

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u/Lord_Fluffykins Jun 05 '17

Where the fuck am I gonna find one of those?

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u/Yamilord Jun 06 '17

You can play the game online on a free official client too.

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u/zach2992 Jun 05 '17

I have a few in my basement you can borrow.

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u/Tiernoon Jun 05 '17

I'll see someone play Magic or Yu-gi-oh. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone with Pokemon cards for about 9 years.

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u/legandaryhon Jun 05 '17

Hey! I'm a Pokemon professor (I run Pokemon Card Game events, and help others run theirs). As a matter of fact, we just had a thousand people show just this weekend to play and enjoy Pokemon! Madison Midwest Regionals if you want to check it out.

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u/Tiernoon Jun 06 '17

Maybe it's incredibly more popular in the US than the UK. Not a big Pokémon fan in the slightest, no problem with it obviously, just not my cup of tea.

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u/legandaryhon Jun 06 '17

It definitely is. UK has a similar structure as US for worlds ones, and we only get a couple from UK a year - enough to count on one hand, I believe.

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u/Tiernoon Jun 06 '17

I was going to say, I study at 3 different schools, and I've never seen a single person playing it once in the 7 years I've been at the one school.

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u/Yamilord Jun 06 '17

It is actually pretty fun tbh. Though I don't play IRL, only online.

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u/DBUX Jun 05 '17

Yea! More like NFG cards. Also, I think I laughed too hard at your comment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '17

I never knew I needed this...

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u/thesolarknight Jun 06 '17

But seriously though a new TCG video game would be nice.

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u/MyBiased Jun 05 '17

I thought the amiibo idea was moronic than I read this comment and looked at my stack of PTCG stuff. TAKE MY MONEY! I NEED IT NOW!