Nintendo confirms: Pokémon Trading Card Game Online comes to iPad this year

You know how Nintendo said it’s not going to make games for iOS? … Yeah, that’s all changed now.

The company is working on bringing Pokémon Trading Card Game Online to Apple’s tablet. It should hit the iPad before the end of 2014. This represents a major departure for Nintendo, which has previously focused all of its game production efforts on Nintendo hardware — although it has released iOS apps before (like the Pokédex). Likely, the earnings potential for something like the Pokémon card game on mobile was too strong for Nintendo to ignore.