What this is
A test of whether The Pokémon Company itself stated any yearly card figure seen in the press: none was shown to be; each is a subtraction of running totals.
How it’s built
- Check each press figure against the difference between the company's March totals, allowing for rounding.
- Check whether any of the 24 archived company pages, or the live page, states a yearly figure. None does.
What we assumed
- A press figure outside the possible range from company totals is a press error.A later review found this rule too strict: differently rounded figures can fall just outside. Dismissals should rest on where figures came from.
Sanity check
One gap remains: the original wording of PokeBeach, a fan site that may be the first source of 10.2bn, was not read.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- 11.9, year to March 2024: = 64.8-52.9 exactly
- ~10, year to March 2026: = 85-75, flagged as PokeGuardian's own subtraction
- 43.2-34.1 = 9.1, floor band open (9.0,9.2) excludes 9.2
- 30.4-27.2 = 3.2, band (3.1,3.3) excludes 3.1
- 64.8-52.9 = 11.9
- 75.0-64.8 = 10.2
- 85-75 = 10
- PokeGuardian check: 6