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<blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 568499" data-attributes="member: 8704">major financial sources have done stories on Pokemon not making money like it used to, I don't know how the CCG is doing but Pokemon toy sales are completely in the toilet and is considered one of the reasons Hasbro is loosing money right now. Don't blame me blame CNN, I think the Pokemon story has also been in the Wall Street Journal. Yu-Gi-Oh is oriented for a slightly more grown up audience (12 instead of 6) the fact that it is a show about a card game is one of the big draws to it, your kids can play the same card game that is played on the show, the show is about playing the card game, kids are buying the cards like crazy. Man my logic even confused me for a second. I find it pretty goofy but then I'm not the target audience, my children are, they tell me that Pokemon is annoying and stupid, they don't like it anymore (just lke the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys and Disney movies. what once was so cool we have to sit through it 50 times a day is now &quot;so last week&quot;). A child's attention span is only so long and the characters on the show never grew or changed, but the kids got older. Well enough on that, the card game is owned by Konami. EDIT: I just saw where the cartoon Yu-Gi-Oh is now on 11 times a week.I've never used minatures or have seen a WOTC store and I'm sure people are scouring Japan for the new cash crop of kids toys and CCGs from crazy cartoons as we speak. E-tools actually wasn't a financial bomb but was a huge PR bomb, we will probably never know the full story on what happened there so I won't even speculate into the Fluid/WOTC situation. I forsee D&amp;D being licensed out alot more in the future, it takes fewer people, puts all the work on somebody else and still makes decent money for the company.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdavis, post: 568499, member: 8704"] major financial sources have done stories on Pokemon not making money like it used to, I don't know how the CCG is doing but Pokemon toy sales are completely in the toilet and is considered one of the reasons Hasbro is loosing money right now. Don't blame me blame CNN, I think the Pokemon story has also been in the Wall Street Journal. Yu-Gi-Oh is oriented for a slightly more grown up audience (12 instead of 6) the fact that it is a show about a card game is one of the big draws to it, your kids can play the same card game that is played on the show, the show is about playing the card game, kids are buying the cards like crazy. Man my logic even confused me for a second. I find it pretty goofy but then I'm not the target audience, my children are, they tell me that Pokemon is annoying and stupid, they don't like it anymore (just lke the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys and Disney movies. what once was so cool we have to sit through it 50 times a day is now "so last week"). A child's attention span is only so long and the characters on the show never grew or changed, but the kids got older. Well enough on that, the card game is owned by Konami. EDIT: I just saw where the cartoon Yu-Gi-Oh is now on 11 times a week. I've never used minatures or have seen a WOTC store and I'm sure people are scouring Japan for the new cash crop of kids toys and CCGs from crazy cartoons as we speak. E-tools actually wasn't a financial bomb but was a huge PR bomb, we will probably never know the full story on what happened there so I won't even speculate into the Fluid/WOTC situation. I forsee D&D being licensed out alot more in the future, it takes fewer people, puts all the work on somebody else and still makes decent money for the company. [/QUOTE]

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