Pokemon TCG Live’s First Year of Stats Released, Less Than 3% Usage Compared to Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel

Pokemon TCG Live officially launched worldwide on June 8th, 2023.

To celebrate its one year anniversary, TPCi has released a “Summer Bash” video that reveals a few stats about the app’s first year:

• 60 million games were played
• 61 billion damage was dealt
• 141 million cards were sent to the Lost Zone
• 2.8 million Bidoof were Knocked Out

They did not reveal how many times the app was downloaded.

For comparison, I looked up the stats for the first anniversary of Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel. Konami reported their app saw 2.1 billion games played and more than 50 million downloads by December 2022.

This means Live saw less than 3% of the battles that Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel saw in its first year. This isn’t too surprising, as Pokemon has always been marketed at a younger audience that generally doesn’t play the game.

Regardless, the Pokemon TCG still outsells Yu-Gi-Oh by a wide margin.

Later this year Pokemon will be releasing Pokemon TCG Pocket, a “lighter” version of the Pokemon TCG that should become far more popular than Live.

I will discuss this news story and further insight on tomorrow’s episode of the PokeBeach podcast.