✨ Ultra Ball ✨

I see some people upset that FireRed and LeafGreen are $20. I’m not sure what people expected, but that’s exactly what I thought or at least hoped they would charge. In the back of my head I worried they might try $30 each. TPC was never going to add mainline games to NSO. Nor would you ever catch them devaluing any generation to $10 or less. Pokemon is the world’s largest IP, or at least one of the largest. They like to make money. They released Scarlet and Violet in a near broken state and sold 25m+ copies. They like to make money. Their plushies costs more than other brands plushies. Their card packs have increased in price over other TCG’s. They charge you just to store more than 30 pokemon on Home. I’m not sure people understand who and what TPC is. There was zero chance these games dropped sub $20 each. Do I think they should be cheaper? Absolutely. Will they be cheaper? No. Will they sell millions and millions of copies? Yes. Pokemon fans know what they signed up for. To many of them, this will be worth it in the end just due to home support. It’s like that for me with Zelda. I love it so much, yes I would have paid $100 for ToTK. But it’s probably the only IP I would do that for consistently. So I get it. I’m just not shocked today because I was worried it would be even higher.