Now you can play the game anywhere you go, virtually!
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/38297/pokemon-trading-card-game-coming-to-ipad
The Pokémon Trading Card Game will be coming to iPad tablets soon.
Before the confirmation by The Pokémon Company, shots were shown of a virtual Pokémon card game in action on iPad software at the Pokémon World Championships in Washington, D.C. Previously, only a few official Pokémon apps such as a virtual Pokedex were released by the company. This would be considered one of the first Nintendo franchises to have a game of sorts on devices like the iPad.
There is no word yet on a release date.
so everyone says Nintendo needs to make a mobile game, Nintendo says no thanks, Wii U tanks investors say make a mobile game and Nintendo throws up a middle finger as they release their first mobile game to shut people up and Nintendo fans downplay the move. Sure Pokemon is sort of a separate entity to Nintendo as a whole but this could be taken as a sign they are testing the waters. I am not going to really expect much to come off this I don't personally want Nintendo to make mobile games because mobile games suck and Nintendo already has the best platform for real mobile games anyways.
Game Freak isn't Nintendo. End of story. This is not Nintendo testing the waters.
I don't know, I feel like GameFreak have the leverage here, because if Nintendo don't cooperate then they can find a way to cancel the contracts and go release Pokémon on Sony systems or something.