>>51530389The whole thing with pokemon card speculation hinges on one thing: That pokemon will exist in another 25 years. If it doesn't exist, then these will all go to $0.
>Not to mention that after 20 years future boomers won't be having the same amount of nostalgia as current 30+ people that saw pokemon anime in the 90s bought MCdonalds pokemon toy and (MOST important) played those old better games.Yes. Absolutely. You think it's crazy now that early-middle millennials have a little bit of income to purchase their childhood fav products? Just wait until those same millennials are 60 and the real boomer money (and free time) starts to kick in.
You can look at baseball and sports cards to see similar. While younger people do make up a decent chunk of those buying sports cards, it's the literal boomers who are buying the majority of the super expensive items of their fav childhood players.
But once again, this all hinges on pokemon still existing, just like basketball and football and baseball still exist.
Also, looking to the newest generation, pokemon is the biggest it has been in a LONG time. It's the biggest it has been since 2016 (PoGo). Young kids are being introduced to pokemon at a wild rate, and this is what matters. Add on to that the parents that have "introduced" pokemon to their children with the recent card mania, and you now have multiple levels of pokemon integration making roots.
It's very easy to act naively arrogant and think that once you stop caring about something, that everyone else stops caring about it to. "Oh, I haven't thought about pokemon in years, is that stuff still around?!"
