Some rivalries you simply can’t let go, even when one facet has clearly outpaced the opposite. There’s Nintendo vs. Sega, Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, and naturally, Pokémon vs. Digimon. Bandai Namco’s monster tamer sequence hasn’t saved the vice grip on popular culture that Nintendo’s has, however Digimon has been respectably trucking together with all method of video games, anime and merchandise for a devoted viewers. As of late, Digimon is generally doing its personal factor. However, it’s about to launch its personal cellular card recreation app to compete with Pokémon Buying and selling Card Recreation Pocket.
A teaser for the brand new recreation was posted on the official Digimon Buying and selling Card Recreation social media channels, the place the fox-like Digimon Renamon picks up a smartphone and is digitized and sucked into the gadget. The display then states that extra data shall be obtainable at Digimon Con, a devoted dwell stream going down on March 19 at 11 p.m. Jap. The teaser is obscure, so we don’t know if this shall be an official digital platform to play the fashionable card recreation, or if it’ll have gacha mechanics just like Pokémon TCG Pocket. However both manner, Digimon is about to enter the cardboard recreation app market once more.
Whereas Pokémon has had one main TCG for 30 years, Digimon has had a number of iterations of a card recreation over the many years, the present one launched in 2020.
Outdoors of the cardboard recreation app, we’ll hopefully hear extra about upcoming Digimon anime and online game initiatives like Digimon Story: Time Stranger coming later this yr. Proper now, there isn’t any energetic Digimon anime on TV after Ghost Recreation led to 2023, so it will be cool if we heard a couple of new sequence later this week.