The Pokémon franchise is in the midst of another boom in the 30th anniversary year, with fans struggling to get their hands on TCG product amid scalper complaints, but a staggering stat shows The Pokémon Company is doing all it can.
Social media is filled with viral clips of people fighting over products in stock, hoarding a load of items, and other shenanigans, and the general consensus is that The Pokémon Company themselves need to up production. However, the numbers show they have done exactly that.
11.7% of All Pokémon Cards Ever Were Printed in The Last Year
The Pokémon Company has released a host of stats for the fiscal year between April 2025 and March 2026, outlined by Serebii, but it’s a footnote from the website’s owner Joe Merrick that is eyewatering.
The numbers show that over 85 billion Pokémon TCG cards were printed in the last fiscal year, an increase of 10 billion compared to the year prior, and that figure is 11.7% of the total number of cards ever printed in the Pokémon TCG.
Considering the franchise is three decades old, those numbers are staggering, and it could actually be even more mindblowing in the years to come.
In December last year, The Pokémon Company’s Millennium Print Group confirmed it was the tenant of a mammoth 1.27 million square foot manufacturing campus in North Carolina, as reported by Pokebeach, with upgrades to the existing 400,000 square feet of buildings starting in early 2026.
A new state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing facility is set to be completed by 2027, and full-scale operations are expected to commence in late 2028.
This will significantly increase the printing capabilities of the Pokémon TCG even further, and it won’t be a surprise if the number of cards printed increases year on year.
So, by the time the facility is in full swing later this decade, even the staggering numbers from the past fiscal year could look tiny.
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