What happened to the old Pokémon TCG Sword and Shield sets?

Question

I am not sure what happened to the older SWSH TCG sets, what I mean by this is that the following sets are basically impossible to find:

• Sword & Shield Base Set
• Rebel Clash
• Darkness Ablaze
• Champion's Path
• Vivid Voltage

To even get a single booster pack from these sets is impossible, and I really enjoyed these sets and I miss them a lot. Does anyone know why they became so hard to find?

Answer 1

The Pokemon Company makes a set, and they make a bunch of copies. Well when a new set comes out they don't really make much of the one before, and the latest set you listed was "Vivid Voltage". Since then more sets came out (exactly 15). So the Pokemon Company doesn't really make to much of older sets, when a new set comes out they kind of over produce it, and then they don't care about it anymore.

You can still find the sets that you listed, but as you said, they are harder to find.

Hope I Helped!

(Also my source is experience cause I collect the cards)