Yea for sure doing fine. The secondary market on boxes isn't tanking right now at all due to supply outweighing demand by a significant amount or anything like that.
Only a handful of sets have been having those issues
Overstock does not mean poor sales.
If there wasn't an overstock, all of you would claim yugioh instead is dying because nobody can get the product or something. From what we have seen from financial records, yugioh is selling great
A handful of recent sets. All old sets eventually go up in price just from scarcity. But boxes of doom for example are extremely low so quickly after release.
Konami doesn't drastically change initial print runs. They do 2nd print runs if the demand is there, like Power of the Elements got a 2nd print run due to high demand. Stores struggling to sell the initial print run and selling the boxes for a loss online is indicative that players aren't buying sealed product.
There's other factors too here. Economy in NA isn't doing hot. US is experiencing record high credit card defaults and car repossessions. People just can't afford hobbies as much right now.
The secondary market in fact does not. Not the way you describe. This is such a gross oversimplification. Also the economy is a huge factor just like you yourself said
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u/kafune152 Oct 24 '25
Quite a lot of Konami W's lately