Encountered the new tougher PSA cases today and boy are they hard to get into. Not only are they harder to crack but they flex the entire plastic case as you break them. This is gonna make cracking/cross grading a much harder thing to do.
Please check the video I posted on my instagram below (wouldn’t let me post directly on here due to the size).
I found this as well. Thought I was just having bad luck with the one I cracked.
im confused as to whether you guys are happy or upset about this
because everyone has been trashing TAG for being easy to crack. Tag slabs are incredibly difficult to cut, and also incredibly sturdy against impact like a hit from a hammer for example… but cant handle flexion or any bending tension or it shatters in pieces, which i actually prefer because when the hell will you ever try to bend your slab in half? It just makes it so it’s incredibly durable in general but easy to crack if needed
but if you drop it from a top shelf nothing will happen
Let’s keep this thread on topic. This thread has no relation to TAG.
but i want to understand what the issue is. first posters seem irritated that it will be difficult to crack. But when it is easy to crack we’ve seen the community up in arms
One person’s opinion and your perception of the general opinion is not the same thing.
But it’s not hard to figure out the discrepancy. If you want to crack a card, you want it to be easy to crack. If you don’t want to crack a card, you want it to be hard to crack.
TAG cases aren’t spontaneously breaking and PSA cases can still be opened, so like most controversies in this hobby it basically boils down to unimportant noise.
grading companies cant win 
i get it though, if you think you have a misgrade
or if you got like a psa7/ps8 on a modern card it would actually be more valuable raw! it’s completely in your interest to crack it
on the flipside part of the community doesnt want inflated pop reports, the ability to keep legit grading tags out of cracked slabs for fraud purposes, ext ext
there is legitimacy to both but in general they really arnt meant to be cracked so the default should be very difficult to crack even at the dismay of many. but not impossible…
maybe psa has it right with this new iteration
Why does every post quickly descend into TAG these days!
My view personally on this is that if PSA somehow find a way to actually be consistent in their grading, this is a positive change, especially the extra UV protection. Until then though this has the potential to frustrate those that recieve poor grading or want to attempt a crossover.
It is also weird that only a handful of cards from my submission were put into the new cases. About 90% of them were still in the older design, surely if they make the swap then every single case should change? It hurts my OCD that sequential slabs are now in different cases.
Yes. I also have had a hard time with the few new slabs I cracked. I found it was easier using the snippers the other way, with the flat edge toward the corner… IDK why. Maybe something in how the natural forces twist the slab? It was a small improvement. But definitely a stronger weld and tougher material.
As a side note, I personally don’t see it as negative, and I’m not reading the OP positive or negative, yeah?
I do think it’s actually a good thing.
