I have been wondering what everyone’s thoughts would be on an effective method for Nintendo to utilize to combat Market Saturation in modern product. I am not sure if there is truly a one fix that would completely eliminate high market saturation, but I am very interested in hearing everyone’s opinions or views on this subject. Personally, although this would not be a full fix but would add some exclusivity and rarity to the modern hobby, I would love to see Nintendo add cards to new sets that are SP or SSP that would be numbered to 100 or 1000 or a variety of different short printed counts. This for me personally would be exciting to see such a rarity for certain cards which is almost non existent in the modern hobby. Now I highly doubt Nintendo would ever do this and they show no indication that they would, but it is a pipe dream of mine! Please let me know what you guys think they could or should do!
we have to seize their means of distribution! let us gather comrades!
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As long as Nintendo continues to sell tons of Pokemon cards, they have absolutely no incentive to scale back their production.
The secondary market may matter to us but Nintendo could not care less about it.
Hit the nail on the head. They are focused on pushing product and growth, nothing else.
I’d love numbered to 10, 25, 100, and 1000 insert cards.
It’s entirely up to Pokémon. The days of having business loyalty are gone. Hidden fates was exciting because it was limited. More importantly, that excitement will sustain if there is a limitation.
Evolutions is a great counter example; I was excited to see the old artwork, but today there is no challenge to collecting the set, and product is the same price from 4 years ago.
Limitation = a challenge. The death of hobbies is saturation. Luckily modern English has always been irrelevant for the second hand market. Modern Japanese is a great example of the inherent value of limitation. Modern Japanese sets have less demand, yet the sealed product increases faster because its actually limited.
It would be ideal if Pokémon combined the structure of Japan with the demand of the west.
Gary, I think I get what you’re saying but could you explain?
I would include VERY limited signature cards to the insert offering.
I absolutely agree and this is why I would also say Pokemon does have a reason to change distribution or introduce SP/SSP cards because of the longevity. I believe what smpratte is saying and I would say that long term saturation down the line could lead to a strong decrease in desire to purchase product or even collect, because nothing is worth anything or hard to obtain. I think if Pokemon would focus more on longevity and stability for decades to come and focus less on short term growth/sales then they would agree that a change is definitely necessary, but it doesn’t look like they believe this.
Which goes in nicely with the thread I created earlier - and the video you created in the past - about the re-implication of 1st edition cards :3
Me too!! I would love this SO much. I collect sports cards as well and have numbered cards and love it. An implementation of SP/SSP cards numbered like this would make me ecstatic! I love the art of some of the modern cards, but the saturation kills any desire for me to collect them much past a few here and there.
Something like the below. A numbered limited release.
Yeah wow imagine 1/1 Pokemon cards inserted in regular sets? This is the dreammmmm
Can you imagine a unique artwork card, only 10 produced, drawn and signed by Sugimori put as a chase card into booster packs?
That’s brilliant. I’ve often thought it would be cool if Pokémon did something like the idea of willy wonkas golden ticket. Let’s say each set has 5 of these exclusive cards randomly inserted into packs. These cards would not count towards the list of cards for that set. Just 5 extremely rare cards randomly inserted in packs of that set. Each new set could have a different artwork/design for these 5 cards. They could even be gold cards lol. Just fun to think about.
We can only dream!
Hand drawn art pieces would be a great idea! Pokemon Japan excels at producing unique items. The golden era promos are S-tier. They are purely what collecting is about.
However I don’t know if implementing signatures in packs would have the same magic. I think what separates pokemon from the heard are the unique releases and stories. Where majority of the 1/1 patch cards in sports are forgettable, because they are ironically saturated, and don’t have much uniqueness. Ultimately rendering their rarity & identity contrived.
Very similar to the basketball cards of Topps and Panini - but that would skyrocket the boxes, not so dissimilar to the prices of some of the current Basketball boxes.
Instead of waiting for modern product to become limited, why not consider the hundreds to thousands of rare items that already exist in this collecting sphere.