Have there been any huge fads since TMNT, Power Rangers and Pokemon?

Yu-Gi-Oh! sold over 22.5 billion cards, you think Pokemon is anywhere near that?

Also, due to the fact an ARG would break the 3DS's portable fashion, I really doubt Nintendo will make a CCG game around that. Especially since they'd have to start all over with the CCG to make it compatible with the technology, which would put card sales back at 0.


Both had pretty extensive toylines by Irwin (as did Dragon Ball Z at one point) so I guess so. Though, Beyblade was bigger than both.
 
Single cards? Well heck, of course the numbers look enormous if you put them like that, specially since it's the span of 10 years. I'm not denying the huge popularity of the YGO card game, but Pokemon as a whole is incredibly more popular, which is pretty much what puts it in a higher position when it comes to "fads" which is what this topic is about. I don't think there's any YGO character more popular and easily recognizable than Pikachu.

Eh, they're already making AR games on the 3DS (there's one pre-installed, in fact), so I have no idea where you would get the idea that AR would break the portability of the 3DS. Satoru Iwata himself stated that the 3D effects on the next Pokemon game will be of importance, and we know they do plan on making several AR games. Pokemon would be one of the most obvious choices for that.

Oh, and the "cards sales back at 0" comment is completely irrelevant. Just because they make new technology doesn't mean all previous sales get nullified or something.
 
I was arguing your point that Pokemon's CCG sales were close to Yu-Gi-Oh!'s (which, 2009 isn't 10 years in the Konami era franchise btw). I really doubt Pokemon is near 20 billion. I don't have some fantastical facade that makes me think Yu-Gi-Oh! has sustained its popularity longer than Pokemon, or ever reached the same heights, but in the card game battle it's clear who's the victor there. It's also why I said going ARG with the CCG would send it back to 0, as the changes needed to the cards would be so great it would likely break many of the existing game mechanics. You felt that an ARG would refresh CCG sales entirely, when I feel it would be a start at 0 so you can't refresh sales of what may as well be a new product.

Iwata isn't the president of The Pokemon Company, he can't really control what they do. Especially with GameFreak, a studio who's adamant about not breaking the portability of their franchise, which an ARG would certainly do. I would know, given I've played Invizimals, and Eye of Judgment, the games Nintendo would be "inspired" from I'm sure.
 
Dude, re-read my original post. I acknowledged that the YGO card game sold better than the Pokemon one. I don't even debate that. I'm talking about the franchises as a whole, which is what matters here. Dunno why you're so adamant on denying this or putting words in my mouth. My post is there. I've never claimed any of the things you said in your post.

So I should listen to either:

A) The President of Nintendo who has contacts with all the developers that work for him and has the power to approve or disapprove any of the games they made.
B) Some guy who played Invizimals.

I'll stick with option A, thanks.

NOTE: I want to point out that I'm not dwelling in this part of the discussion any further. I made my point quite clear in my original post so I don't feel the need to explain myself anymore on that. My mention of the AR games was more of a side note and I didn't use it to claim anything. Everything else is speculation and it would fall into thread derailment if we keep bringing it up. I'm not doing so anymore.

My original point was that, as franchises as a whole, Pokemon is more popular than YGO. You seem to agree with that so that's pretty much settled.
 
I agree. The Yu-Gi-Oh! card game might be more popular than the Pokemon TCG, but as a whole franchise, Pokemon is generally more successful with its various anime series, the video games, toys, the card game and various magna titles, although there are more in Japan than in other countries at the moment I think. Even during the height of its popularity, I don't think that Yu-Gi-Oh! reached the same kind of popularity that Pokemon did. Pokemon is more well know and I think that the only recognizable character would be Atem/Yami Yugi, though probably due to his hair and for being the first main lead, but still not as well known as Pikachu and possibly Ash.

Anyway, I'm not sure if there have been other huge cartoon fads. I don't know if Bakugan is still popular, despite getting its fourth series, because I haven't heard a lot about the toys still selling well. But I think it helps every time I go into the toy section of a store, they have ton of Bakugan toys, which makes me wonder if they're actually selling a lot of them or not. Naruto was pretty big, at least during a good portion of the first series, and I agree with darkdetective that Hannah Montana was really popular, especially in its early years, but those are really the only kind of fads I could think of.
 
I suppose My Little Pony is bigger now than it has been in years due to the new TV show, but My Little Ponys era of true pop cultural relevance was in the 80's and first couple of years of the 90's. It was virtually the female counterpart to Transformers or TMNT in terms of fame and financial success.
 
Naruto had it's shine for a while. I still stay in touch with the Shippuuden manga chapters but I think Shippuuden not airing on CN/basic cable held a part in the overrall hype fading. I don't pay close attention to DXD so I don't know what kind of ratings it gets, though. I'm sure it helps the network.

Next I'd say Avatar was pretty good. I honestly had no idea how popular it was until I started lurking around on the Internet since I have no friends around me who'd watch it as much.
 
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