Money money money

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

So what about the different currencies around the Pokéverse? Have we gotten direct names on any of them besides MD's "Poké" and Orre's "PokéDollars"?

I know in the Japanese games they're Yen, but really that's too direct. It needs something with at least a skewed name if they insist on a real-world reference, like everything else in there.

 

[PDL]

Honestly, does it matter if the currency doesn't have an offical name? It'll only be a case of "Call a Rabbit A Smeerp". Only with money.

Anyway, the currency througout the different games seems to be the same. Except for the coins used in the Game Corners and the BPs used in the battle tower/frontier and the Pokécoupons used in PBR and Mt.Battle in the Colosseum/XD games.

 

[paperfairy]

I believe that Orre, Kanto, Sinnoh, Johto and Hoenn all use the same currency, and thus, are PokeDollars.

 

[Virtual-Z]

I think they all use the same currency. I just call 'em "dollars" or "bucks" like I would in real life.

 

[Swampert tamer]

I usually just call the money in pokemon world (in the RPGs)"yen".

 

[Drakon]

I think all the regions have the same currency.

And yes, Poke is the currency name (at least to me).

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Honestly, does it matter if the currency doesn't have an offical name?

Kinda, I need it for a fic.


And given that Orre is apparently a different part of the world than the other regions, would it really have the same currency?

 

[The White King]

I always thought it was credits for some reason, but thats Star Wars.

 

[Amewsment]

Might be a different world but it could be the same continuum but an alternative universe or whatever. I bet Orre has the same money, I mean what are the chances of pokémon of exactly the same species existing on a completely different world. I argue that Orre is on the same planet and they all use Poké-dollars or Poké-yen.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

Why would the whole world use the same money though?

 

[Infinity Mk-II]

Well if it uses the P symbol then it might be, but I guess it doesn't, so chances are it's a different currency.

In pokemon mystery dungeon they don't use the symbol either I think. In fact "poké" could be an abreviation of the longer name of the currency.

Personally I just call them Poké anyways.

 

[Amewsment]

Why would the whole world use the same money though?

The same government might be an answer although Arizone is very far away from Japan geographically, it is very possible that a world government exists or simply that the different countries and governments have decided to adopt the same currency much like the EU. There are a multitude of other reasons why they would adopt the same currency but I am simply too lazy to post them up.

 

[Æsahættr]

Why would the whole world use the same money though?

Well all the items we've seen so far in the games cost the same in every region. If their currency is worth the same as each others all the time, it'd be almost pointless not to.

 

[Amewsment]

I also cannot see the merit or value in designing a new currency for each region. It never seems to be much of a focal point in any of the canons, money is literally secondary. Not much information on it in the games or the animé to my knowledge.

 

[Lilac Hill]

Why would the whole world use the same money though?

Plenty of countries use the Euro....

 

[The Outrage]

Why would the whole world use the same money though?

They're all called regions so its possible they're all from the same country.

 

[Amewsment]

They're all called regions so its possible they're all from the same country.

I think she was asking that because of Orre, which isn't part of those regions and is actually somewhere else entirely. I think it's simply on a different continent or far far away, but it is possible that Orre is actualyl situated on a different world or part of an alternate universe.

 

[coolcatkim22]

I like to call it Pen.
Because it's symbol is like the yen symbol except with a P instead of a Y.

P.S. All the regions so far seem to be all a part of Japan (even Orre but where in Japan that is is still unknown).

 

[sparkyrotom]

I think Orre is in the same country as the others. in can trade, has the same pokemon. I wouldnt be surprised if they created a new country with none of the pokemon we know in it. It's like 600 in this country. 500 in that country, but completely different ones. Orre is in the same region. The money is pokedollars in all (except for MD but that's understandable) places. Just in Orre they have the world pokedollars, but in the portable games, they have the symbol, probably due to less space to write the word in the small text boxes.

 

[Ash_Pokemaster]

Currency of the Pokemon World is official, in fact. Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh all use Yen, the Japanese currency, while Orre uses the PokéDollar. For the original Japanese versions of the tranditional games, even the symbol of Yen itself, ¥, is used, not to mention that the prices of the items are similar. In Pokemon Colosseum, and XD: Gale of Darkness, the currency is mentioned as PokéDollar, and the symbol

is used. This of course, because of their taking place in United States, proving once more that Orre is indeed based on Arizona. Well, the Yen-like P symbol was being used for the translated games ever since Generation I, but the scenario of the Japanese games, is far more canonical, not to mention logical.

So, for the Japanese regions, Yen is the currency, while in the US Region, Orre, it is Dollar, although with the prefix Poké-. Of course, there is a possibility that PokéDollar may even be credit, as previously mentioned, or even special currency for Pokemon Trainers, hence the Poké- prefix.