Based on the latest Nintendo report this game is currently at 7.06 million units sold. 3.12 million of those sales were in the last fiscal year up to Mar 2010
Accidentally pressed submit too quickly. But also given the fact that VGchartz tends to overtrack most titles, the prospects of this title selling 10m+ seem a bit dim.
Just to note, VGChartz has this game at 5.25 million copies at this point, which is roughly half the market price forecast. I know Pokemon games tend to have legs, but even this current price of 10+ million seems a bit excessive, no?
Considering that Pokemon: Platinum Version is entirely based upon a best-selling game released more than two years ago, approaching the review for the product is not the usual undertaking. Despite all of its tweaks and upgrades, Platinum uses a two year old game -- in this case, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl -- as its foundation. Still, that two year old game is one of the...
Nintendo Japan formally announced today the next entry in the Pokemon series. The follow-up to Pokemon Diamond & Pearl will be titled Pokemon Platinum and will be released to Japan this Fall.Little is known about the sequel at the moment, although Nintendo is promising a number of new elements added to the Diamond & Pearl story, as well as a new form for Girathina, a Pokemon that appeared in the two predecessors.
@mrahaju, Since the 2 days is the first week # of Pokemon Platinum, here is the first week # of other Pokemon games (all Famitsu based) : Pokemon Diamond & Pearl : 1,586,360 (4 days, 2 games combined) Pokemon Ruby & Saphire : 1,245,003 (4 days, 2 games combined) Pokemon Fire Red & Leaf Green : 955,337 (4 days, 2 games combined) Pokemon Emerald : 643,987 (4 days)
According to Enterbrain/Famitsu.
This is a better performance in the same time period than this year's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, Smash Bros. Brawl or Dragon Quest V DS. And it surpasses NSMB as the best single-performing DS game in a sales week, despite having 2 days in the week due to its Saturday release. As far as DS games go, it's only behind the combined Diamond/Pearl.
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