Pokémon Diamond / Pearl
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are new Pokémon games to be released for the Nintendo DS. Not much is known about them, except that they have been officially announced by Nintendo. They are most likely to be Wifi-enabled. While no formal release date has yet been announced, an official statement was made February 16 at the Nintendo DS Conference Spring 2006 (ニンテンドーDS カンファレンス！ 2006.春」). It was said that the eagerly awaited Pokémon Diamond and Pearl games will be released in Japan sometime before the year’s end. This is the first official statement regarding the games since the original announcement of the games being in development. The U. S. version is still to be announced.
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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl will be the first true Pokémon RPG games for the Nintendo DS. The games are due for release in Japan in fall 2006. They will take place in the region of Shin'ō, and the player's starting area will be Futaba Town.
The games will be backward-compatible with Pokémon Ruby, Pokémon Sapphire, Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen using the Nintendo DS's Game Boy Advance slot. Players will be able to transfer Pokémon from these games to Diamond and Pearl once certain requirements in the latter games are met.
The day-night system first appearing in Pokémon Gold and Silver will return, now with four time periods: morning, day, evening, night. A new multifunction device called the Pokétchi, short for Pokémon Watch is also introduced. The professor's Japanese name is Dr. Nanakamado.
More info soon...
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Latest Screenshots from the Coro Coro Magazine in Japan.
Below are the original pages from Coro Coro magazine, click on each to enlarge:
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