Each pack included various goodies, most notably four-card packs with limited-edition starter squads and one guaranteed holofoil card per pack. To celebrate 25 years of Pokemon trading cards, McDonalds provided special Happy Meal boxes that bore the smiling face of Pikachu and a special pack in every meal.
Though this decision was eventually reversed, it should be noted that retail chains weren't the only unwitting hosts of Pokemon card controversies. Four people assaulted a man who purchased sports cards, which caused Target to crack down and temporarily nuke the sales of all trading cards, including Pokemon cards. In May 2021, according to CNN, one Target in Wisconsin was ground zero for a brawl over trading cards. While trading cards have always been a hot commodity, in 2021, they became infinitely more so, which caused a mad dash endangered participants and onlookers alike. How can anyone expect to profit off producing games for next-gen consoles if nobody can get their hands on one? At least PlayStation 4 stocks lasted a good 12 hours in the UK (via BBC) back when that console launched. As a result, scalpers have made a ton of money and consoles have remained scarce.Īccording to GameRant, semiconductor shortages and scalpers could rob most gamers of readily-available consoles until 2022, which is bad news for game developers. These product fleecers continuously lept on trickling restocks, employed bots to snag all available consoles nanoseconds after they went on sale, and sold them for well above the MSRP on eBay. But as time went on, console stocks seemed to dry up even more thanks to one of this console generation's biggest problems: scalpers.
As explained by GamesRadar, this was largely because crucial semiconductors were in short supply thanks to COVID-related factory closures. When the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 hit store shelves at the tail end of 2020, gamers knew stocks would be limited.
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