Pokémon Diamond and Pearl - New Sales Record

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 01 Oct 2006 11:06 pm

2 million copies of Diamond and Pearl in hours, 500,000 DS Lite units with it.

Good thing to know we've all outgrown the Pokemon fad.

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 02 Oct 2006 12:42 am

OK, that's just fucking crazy

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 02 Oct 2006 07:33 am

Advertising for this was pretty huge. Nearly every second ad break in japan ran one of the two adverts for the game. One ad was for the new cartoon series that was starting on the same day as launch and the other showed the voice chat functions of the game with a bit of in game footage.

Seraph · Post by **Seraph** » 09 Oct 2006 04:04 pm

Figures from media create, for the week 25th September to 1st October.

Pokemon Diamond - 820,047.
Pokemon Pearl - 768,687.

Games were released on the 28th.

DSL sales in same time period - 274,389.

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 09 Oct 2006 05:27 pm

So the figures were overestimated a bit.

The important thing is that:

PSP -->

<-- DS

Pat · Post by **Pat** » 09 Oct 2006 06:02 pm

~1.6M sold then. Not bad for a 10 year old series that was apparently "just a fad".

Ive so far never played a pokemon game. Are they actually any good?

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 09 Oct 2006 06:38 pm

fuck that's a fucking fuckload
fuck

if you haven't played one yet, play one
they're pretty good, they're just always the same game

Jub-Jub · Post by **Jub-Jub** » 10 Oct 2006 01:57 am

I've only ever played the original Blue and Red versions and they were great games.

But yeah Im pretty sure all the later versions were pretty much the same just with new monsters.

BOOMY · Post by **BOOMY** » 10 Oct 2006 02:44 am

Is there speech samples for each pokemon yet? Something so obvious and fundamental to the cartoon should be included in games with hardware capable of it. If its cart limitations then hell re-release red/blue for a THIRD time and do it FUCKING PROPERLY! add wifi too(does the new one have wifi?). Not that i'd give a shit if they did but it should be a real dominating game and give us some spice over substance.

Talez · Post by **Talez** » 10 Oct 2006 08:12 am

BOOMY wrote:Is there speech samples for each pokemon yet?

No.

(does the new one have wifi?).

Yes and voice chat.

SythBlade · Post by **SythBlade** » 10 Oct 2006 08:37 am

The wifi allows for trading which is pretty awesome, you can put up your pokemon at an ebay style market, set what you want to trade for, ie male ponyta, level 20+ or just a ponyta. and if some one can fulfill your trade it will happen.