Some of the world’s best players are attracted to the Pokemon World Championships. Read more at straitstimes.com.
– Dressed up and ready for battle, around 10,000 Pokemon fans have descended on Yokohama in Japan this weekend, looking for fun but also collector’s item cards potentially worth serious money.
“I have been playing since I was a kid,” Mr Ajay Sridhar, 33, who travelled halfway around the world from New York to attend with his cards, told AFP as he explained why he was hooked. While they have always been swopped and collected, the cards’ value has exploded in recent years, not just among fans of the game but also investors with little or no past interest.
The most expensive ever sold was in 2021 when United States YouTuber Logan Paul paid – in a Dubai hotel room to a “mystery” seller – US$5.28 million for a supposedly unique, mint-condition “PSA Grade 10 Pikachu”.
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