How much would a Master Ball cost? In Pokemon there is no way you can buy a master ball. But you can always buy the other Pokeballs Great Balls and Ultra Balls. Well we finally found out the real price of a masterball #pokemonscarletandviolet
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Ultras used to cost 1200
It's Right On The Dot
I'd pay that for a purple ball RN
Not only is this not a reasonable cost, because considering that pokedollars are based off of yen, which is roughly 100:1 with USD, meaning that your 100k price tag actually becomes 1k when converted to USD, ultimately meaning you can own gods for the price of a cheap phone, but you also have to take into account rarity
There have only been 25 separate masterballs that we’ve seen, in every game, not including the remakes since those are the exact same game with renewed textures, meaning lore-wise any masterball you find in them that can also be found in the original game is the same ball. Across the countries that we’ve visited in every game, which are also some of the richest countries in the real world, and likely most of the countries in the pokemon world that have even a single masterball, we have seen 25, meaning throughout the entire world there is likely less than a hundred total, putting the price tag automatically at a minimum of around 450k, going by the price of the rolls-Royce silver dawn who’s average price is 60k, and has 750 produced, and compared to our masterball estimate at 100, we can’t tell that the masterball should be roughly 7.5x as expensive. Now that’s not even counting the fact that a masterball actually has a use unlike the silver dawn, so we’ll say that makes it 10x as expensive, although it’s probably much much more, meaning at a very low estimate, a masterball costs roughly 4.5 million
Just eyeballing without any actual calculations however, you’d expect the masterball to cost around 500 million USD or above
That's around £540
If a master ball costs 10200 poke dollars that means if masterballs were in RL they would cost 58 euros
So people hate team rocket for trying to steal people's Pokémon but literally have no problem with children.'s age of eleven twelve thirteen going around the forest of ducting these creatures from their famplease and we already know that wild animals hate trained pokeyman
Inflation hit them good😂😂😂
I get the logic and formula but in the real world rarity and exclusive items also come with an increase in price. You can buy an inflatable boat for under $1,000. If it breaks it can easily be replaced and they’re a dime a dozen. Or you could buy the “history supreme” yacht. There’s only one in the world much like the master ball and it sold for $4.8 billion
thats a steal
Research task in Pokémon Go to get a master bal was like 10 bucks for it, and then 2 master balls for free
Ehhh, it’s a bit reasonable for a master ball, but considering the rarity of it they might be made even more expensive
It'll probably cost more. You're paying for something that's also very rare.
Its pikecoins u dumass
According to my calculations it would cost $1,020 IRL
50 robux, obviously
100k pokedollars?
Man,masterballs would be so much easier
Is cheaper that the bike
I paid 75 robux for one of those
This don't make sense, the NPCs don't know the catch rate is represented as a 16-bit number, nor should the player. by in-universe logic the 'catch rate' of the master ball is infinite.
800? when did that happen?
Bro became Einstein for 1 minute
Poke, great and hyper balls are mass produced and they are a common commodity being able to be bought in bulk at every Pokémon shop. In comparison the master ball is generally unique in most games with the most potent capture technology and is not being mass produced. The price of r&d alone would be astronomical and that’s not factoring in the effects scarcity would have on such an item. I mean it also has the power to literally capture god (arceus) so it would definitely be considered the most important military asset and have a price tag to match it.
Jesus my phone erupted at the end there
$102,000 dollar for a guaranteed legendary (if you can find one) is a pretty good deal i gotta admit.
this means you can get 3 masterball for 1 dollar
So I can buy a whole bunch of them in S/V, I’m max money
a poke ball that can catch god definitely costs more
If it’s 200*2x, where x is the catch rate, then wouldn’t a pokeball cost 400?
According to Pokemon go it’s $8
pretty free with a few letters lol(game shark)
Ok? So what does that mean?
So…less than a standard child's bicycle
Me with ultra ball of price 1200
When i was emulating on the PSP way back when and i wanted to complete the pokedex without the hassle, i transfered my ROM to the computer. Used cheat engine, changed up some values, then i had near unlimited Master Balls. Then just transferred ROM back to PSP.
There was probably an easier way to do it using the PSP emulator though
My pokemon sun character has millions of dollars
It will cost more by far
Yo that was PEAK alola was one of the most peak shows change my mind
then u gotta consider markups for being a 100% ball
Honestly still cheap
That sounds actually reasonable. I'm guessing customizing your balls will cost close to half a million
Ultra balls are 1200 son
Itd be more bc of rarity of supply…evem in the anime verse where all the regions exist in one world, thered still be only a couple versions created
Just go to sell a master ball in fire red u can know the price
I think some people are missing the point. The original Master Ball is exceedingly expensive, as it is the first working product.
By being of limited availability, the Master Ball would be a higher price regardless of the related ratio of catch rate to poke dollars. The opportunity cost of a guaranteed catch also increases the possiblities of terretories and rarity of Pokemon one can afford to track down and return with results.
The inherent price of the Master Ball is higher than its technological value.
The other part of this arguement is that the original Master Ball is one of a kind, and has come from a long line of research and development. Harkening back to the limited availability, the Master Ball is in fact the most expensive Poke Ball, sitting at probably the history of Poke Balls' worth of value. This, however, is not relevant as the research and development has likely produced prototypes of multiple variants and strengths of Poke Balls that resulted in the Great, Ultra, Fast and other balls that were sold with commercial success; not only funding the further development of the ultimate Poke Ball, but also returning the investment of the research of the Master Ball.
All in all, it's safe to say that the Master Ball we acquire is worth a lot of money, but the research, blueprints, and existing development infastructure already existing causes further Master balls to decrease in price, and likely ending up at around what is being stated in the video. Video is prboably accurate, at least after the Master Ball becomes a commercial product.
Further efficency of production like cheaper material acquisition, development procedures and factory tools could also cause the Master Ball to drop below the incurred value through market competition and relevancy over other Poke Balls; kind of like how we all have high-tech smart phones that are cheaper and more powerful than the NASA moon landing computers.
how much is that in irl$
NUH UH IT IS CANON THAT IT HAS A 0% CATCH RATE IN THE ANIME
And still somehow way cheaper than a bicycle in Vermillion City
Or can we could see the price by trying to sell our own master ball, Then therefore we would more or less see how much a master ball would cost