Cash cow -- Nintendo chooses you! As they so strongly hinted, it appears from this scan that CoroCoro Comic magazine has revealed the next Pokémon game from Nintendo, called Pocket Monsters Platina (Pokémon Platinum).We can't read the scan (because it is both tiny and Japanese), but TheTanooki's summary of the article describes it as the next game in the Diamond/Pearl series, with Giratina on the cover. It features an online version of the weird Underground feature from Diamond and Pearl, an Emerald-like "Battle Island," and some new forms for critters like Giratina and Shaymin.
According to TheTanooki, Platinum will be out in September in Japan. All of this is classifiable as "rumor" right now, but that scan looks pretty real.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-11-2008 @ 7:44PM
Yan said...
platinum huh? so they finally decided on the final name for the colors/gems.
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5-11-2008 @ 8:04PM
GSR said...
Wonder how much of a change this one'll be compared to Yellow/Crystal/Emerald.
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5-11-2008 @ 8:16PM
Psy said...
Now it's DPP.
Sounds kind of... dirty.
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5-11-2008 @ 8:23PM
Joshua said...
Ah, Platinum. I couldn't figure out what the third game would be called (Emerald for the third generation games was predictable, for example :P )... I guess Platinum makes some sense, though...
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5-12-2008 @ 1:11AM
[.sm0ke.] said...
Cubic Zirconia
5-13-2008 @ 7:39AM
paraditty said...
I was hoping for Quartz, for some reason lol
5-11-2008 @ 9:43PM
Aparoid said...
Pokemon is like AIDS, it keeps spreading and never stops.
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5-11-2008 @ 10:11PM
parKb5 said...
Strongly hinted at? EVERYONE knew a third game would be out for the DS Pokemon series. Everyone and their mother knew this was coming.
...I'll buy it, though...
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5-11-2008 @ 10:21PM
Tristan said...
They are running out of precious tones to use. At least Platinum is the most valuable one they could have chose. Now everything else from here on out is going to be exotic and more of geological significance, such as Obsidian, Quartzite, and Marble or maybe Granite?
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5-22-2008 @ 9:48PM
Pokefreak said...
No duh! i defentally buy it the day it comes out in the U.S.! man i cant wait!!!
5-22-2008 @ 9:48PM
Pokefreak said...
lol defentally i totally agree! Also there running out of pokemon names too!
5-11-2008 @ 11:08PM
Cale said...
awww....
i wanted it to be pokemon coal
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5-11-2008 @ 11:22PM
hvnlysoldr said...
You could then give that as presents to enemies for Christmas.
5-12-2008 @ 12:02AM
Jeff said...
ANOTHER ONE??!! Oh my God. I used to absolutely love Poke'mon when there were like 5 games but now, now theres like 50 different games! How would people know what they would want? Poke'mon is now officially the second most over used franchise next to Mega Man in my book. Never going to buy another game from this series. Its like they are not even trying any more. Maybe if they have a really neat and new feature like give commands through the mic or toss the Poke' Ball with the touch screen or maybe just maybe have a different character design and layout of the land ( I mean change the physics so your not doing a over head perspective.)
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5-12-2008 @ 11:43AM
wwwyzzerdd said...
"Its like they are not even trying any more. Maybe if they have a really neat and new feature..."
The entire 4th generation takes good advantage of the DS and the Wii's wifi capabilities.. Thats far from 'not even trying any more'.
"Poke'mon is now officially the second most over used franchise next to Mega Man in my book"
Your 'book' is shit. Pokemon is an easy money maker for nintendo but each game was an improvement over its predecessor. Unlike the initial run of Mega Man.
tl;dr 7/10 your an imbecile.
5-12-2008 @ 6:04PM
SephFinale said...
To #12: Agreed.
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5-12-2008 @ 10:39PM
Eleniel said...
Eeee, neat! Too bad Giratina is so not cool-looking.
And seriously, what is the next set of games going to be named after? >.>; Unless these are the last ones?!?
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5-14-2008 @ 2:05PM
Char6296 said...
I like the way Giratina looks. It's to the point and looks its weight and height. And it looks like a precious stone series mascot.
The next set... they could be named after... hmm... Pokémon SunGold and StoneSilver. (maybe remakes of Pokémon G/S) There won't be a third because they never made WaterBlue, did they?
5-14-2008 @ 4:51PM
Char6296 said...
And yeah, I am bad at names and speculation.
5-22-2008 @ 9:48PM
Pokefreak said...
Oh, noes i hope they are not they last ones!