For greater than three many years, Pokemon and its numerous card and video video games have loved sustained recognition around the globe. And a minimum of one distinguished collector and investor–Griffin Gaming Companions co-founder Peter Levin–believes that Pokemon’s enduring attraction not solely extends to the current, it might proceed even when the world immediately got here to an finish.
“Pokemon is a worldwide phenomenon,” Levin informed The Hollywood Reporter. “I am completely satisfied that if the world suffered an apocalypse tomorrow, the next day the worldwide foreign money can be Pokemon playing cards. Pokemon playing cards are beating the S&P 500 by 3,000%. Emanating from Japan, it actually took maintain around the globe within the late ’90s and early 2000s. It then had a zenith second after which a nadir second, and ever since then, it has been on a parabolic progress curve.”
As unlikely as that state of affairs might sound, there could possibly be a really entertaining film based mostly on survivors utilizing Pokemon playing cards as foreign money throughout an apocalypse. It will be in all probability even higher with precise Pokemon–like the Detective Pikachu movie–but Levin’s actually hit on enjoyable concept even when it would not have a foundation in actuality.
The whole lot Levin mentioned about Pokemon’s recognition is appropriate. There is a purpose why the Japanese mob reportedly used uncommon Pokemon playing cards to launder cash or for more and more brazen robberies of Pokemon playing cards from shops throughout the US. Some individuals are keen to pay ridiculous quantities of cash for the rarest Pokemon playing cards and collectibles.
Nevertheless, that worth can solely maintain if the playing cards have some intrinsic worth exterior of Pokemon followers. They’re solely invaluable so long as somebody places actual foreign money towards them. With out that community of devoted patrons, Pokemon playing cards would not be well worth the paper they’re printed on when the world goes to hell.
Earlier than any potential apocalypse comes alongside, Pokemon is getting a brand new stop-motion animated sequence on Disney+. The September 2026 occasions for Pokemon Go have been additionally just lately introduced. Earlier this summer time, Pokemon Pokopia acquired a DLC replace as properly.
