Current Interest in VG

• Brampton Booster
• Mar 08, 2014
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*This should not be used or substituted as any sort of scientific research or logical analysis. You have been warned.

Well, let’s look at how popular Cardfight Vanguard is after about, say two years now. So let’s just search it up:

Google: “popularity of cardfight vanguard”

1. articles. alterealitygames.com/category/cardfight-vanguard-articles/
   • Not at all sure why this comes up first. Nothing instrumental or solid.
2. thetoptens.com/top-trading-card-games/cardfight-vanguard-481729.asp
   • www .thetoptens.com/top-trading-card-games/
   • (1) MTG, (2) YGO, (3) PKMN, (4) CFVG
   • Interesting

> While I could go to page 2, that probably wouldn’t be very useful

Google News: “popularity of cardfight vanguard”

1. animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2014-03-07/record-sales-of-cardfight-vanguard-winter-spring-releases
   • Shortages of expansions mean good business, and bad palnning. Then again, the Bermuda booster are coveted being filled to the brim in pre-orders…
   • Hey there are references
   • “Top 10 Hobby Channel Collectible Games” – ICV2
     • CFVG places 5th (Marvel got 3rd!?!)
2. capsulecomputers.com.au/2014/03/anime-roundtable-the-evolution-of-card-games-anime/
   • Another dead end

Time to get off bad search engines and find something better:

Google Trends: “vanguard, yugioh, pokemon, magic”

www. google.ca/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F039h3r%2C%20%2Fm%2F04rhz%2C%20%2Fm%2F0g9vyrn%2C%20%2Fm%2F027qg4&cmpt=q

You’ll get this neat chart. Out of the data collected by google, these are some nice things to say:

• YGO gets interest from US and the Philliphines
• MTG is almost soley US
• CFVG is still only important in Japan and Brunei
• PKMN has both US and Japan fairly evenly

• YGO’s interest acutally comes from the Anime; the CCG is sitting at 20.
• Typing magic gets you to mtg., but “vanguard” doesn’t (for fresh searches)

• The forecat predicts MTG to stay the same
• YGO is just falling down
• PKMN will live in a perpetual state of weakness
• CFVG is being predicted to drop

Eh, Let’s look at at a website stats:

www. semrush.com/info/www.wizards.com%2Fmagic%2F%E2%80%8E?db=us

• Ranked: 1045
• About 1 million in traffic

www. semrush.com/info/yugioh-card.com

• Ranked: 4037
• About 278, 000

www. semrush.com/info/cf-vanguard.com/en/

• Ranked: 37388
• About 20, 850

www. semrush.com/info/pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online/

• Ranked: 1526
• About 814, 042
• Of course, this is for pokemon.com and not the tcg site

 

Conclusion

And that’s me being lazy. And about that program I’m working on:

• both of these images are from xkcd

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