28 years after the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) was released, it's still going strong, with the latest mobile release putting up eye-popping numbers only a few days since its release. On October 30, The Pokémon Company released the long-awaited mobile app version of the famous card game, Pokémon TCG Pocket, which according to a celebratory tweet from the company, was downloaded over ten million times in under four days. Not only that, but industry analysts at AppMagic believe the new mobile game has earned over $3 million per day, tripling the earnings of Pokémon GO .
Pokémon TCG Pocket recreates the tabletop game, right down to ripping packs open, though it has a long ways to go to match the variety of the original game. With multiple expansions covering each Pokémon generation, there's over 14,000 individual cards in the game, compared to the mobile app's total of 226, including alternate artwork. The initial set, Genetic Apex, is similar to the first release of the physical game, with a few modern variants thrown in for good measure. The rush to collect them all is driving mobile gaming whales to spend big in order to keep ripping packs open and...
