The upcoming iPad version of Pokemon Trading Card Game could be released in the next few weeks as Pokemon's Andrew Finch praised the iOS device for its "brilliant" touch interface.

"The touch interface is just brilliant," Finch said. "It is absolutely the best. Card games translate so well to touch interface, and we have done that. All of the functionality that's on the PC and Mac is on here – nothing got cut or left behind," the Pokemon director said. 

He continued, "It's identical. Your accounts are identical. You can be playing on a tournament on your PC and have to go to the bathroom, shut down your PC, grab your iPad, log back in – even midgame – and still keep playing. It's all the same."

Fans were further stirred up when Josh Wittenkeller, a famous Pokemon enthusiast posted a photo of what could be the iPad version of the game.

"It looks like Pokémon TCGO is in works for the iPad! Should be a huge way to expand the game. #PlayPokemon," the Pokemaniac tweeted.

The tweet surfaced during last weekend's Pokemon World Championships in Washington D.C.

Pokemon Trading Card Game is currently available on Windows PC and Mac.

Pokemon has been around for quite sometime now, and how it is able to sustain popularity for almost 20 years is laudable.

"We do have to find that balance as marketers, because we want kids that are just coming into it to realize it's established but it's not exclusive," said Pokemon's Director of Consumer Marketing J.C. Smith in an interview.

Bloomberg reported that Nintendo's stocks rose to 6.9 percent following the Pokemon Trading Card Game's debut on Apple iPad's iOS.

The exciting news have left many other Nintendo fanatics wondering whether there will also be a Mario Kart mobile version anytime soon.

Several investors have already reached out to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata to consider experimenting on mobile apps.

This could be a new frontier that the company, whose profits have slipped significantly over the last quarter, might want to explore.