Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver released only two weeks ago in Japan but has already managed to accrue two million sales. These latest games are remakes of Gold and Silver, generally considered by fans to be the best Pokémon games of the whole series. So yeah, no surprise they're selling like crazy.
The remakes have updated graphics and touch-screen controls. They also come bundled with a pedometer that wirelessly functions with the game itself to transform real-world steps into in-game rewards. The DS titles are due to hit North America and Europe in Spring 2010.
The exact figures so far clocks the Japanese sales at 2,067,609. It's amazing just how much life is still in that series. You'd think the whole craze would have died in the nineties, but Pokémania is still very much alive and well.
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1:00 PM on 10.01.2009
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P.S. "Your ditto's shit".
Gold and Silver are the best ones, period. God, I can't wait until this releases. One of my most anticipated games of 2010.
So many things to do in the game...so many legendaries to catch @_@
@ShuperShawn
No need! It comes with the game! =D
@PJMan
Do you actually play Pokemon games? Each one has a different setting and story, graphical upgrades, new pokemon and items. If having the same basic structure means that it's a bad game then that could be said for all sequels.
I put 100+ hours on my copy of Diamond without even trying, so I assume I'll get even more out of this one.
The pedometer is sold with each copy of the game and plays an important role in the whole "Gotta Catch'em All" goal of the games (aka certain Pokemon are only catch-able via said device). If they offered it as a pre-order item only, that would mean the majority of individuals would never have a chance to collect all the Pokemon nor participate in the cool activities in HG/SS that are based on the device. Now if the pre-order one's were merely a different color than the regular ones, then it could possibly work as a Pre-order bonus.
Besides these games already have a Pre-order bonus for them:
HG Pre-order nets you a Ho-oh figure
SS Pre-order nets you a Lugia figure
HG+SS Pre-order nets the both figures and a bonus Acerus figure
I hope we get to see those pre-order bonuses as well, or have they already been announced? Btw, I don't want to sound like a noob, but exactly how many legendaries can you catch in HG/SS?
There's a list on Serebii.net if you really want to know. Personally I want to know more about the in game events but I'm too afraid to spoil the new stuff for myself to look it up completely.
Gold & Silver gallery is one of the best, second only for the original ones
Plus: It was on Gold & Silver that this little bastard first appeared
Lugia is the shit, also is there still that cloning glitch in this one
Next is Rusty with the sports.
@PJMan:
I´ll have to disagree with you with that FAIL thing you said, because, even though you have the right to express your own opinion, it seems that you dont entirely know the subject that you are critizising.
Pokemania doesn't die because it's not a fad like Disco. I'm guessing that it's appeal is inherent to human nature somehow. In that the series itself isn't necesarily up to scrap, but the people playing pokemon imagine themselves within the pokemon world, either caring for pokemon as pets or training them to battle. And the pokemon themselves are interesting creaturs that you are curious about, which makes the Pokedex kind of important.
Although the biggest screw up in pokemon (to me) is that the pokemon started being less mysterious. Ditto, Voltorb, Doduo, Cubone and Magneton defied explanation or rationalization - What does Cubone's face look like? How do three magnemite stuck together weigh as much as ten? When pokemon don't make sense or inspire curiosity, they drive people into interest. I kind of wich that aspect of the game comes back with the next generation.
When I battled actual people, it was my six against their six... you'd be hard pressed to find another video game experience that immerses people so deeply; an experience where a person's in-game "possessions" are literally felt as his or her own, and beyond that, there also being an emotional connection to those "possessions."
Fascinating stuff really. I really didn't have that emotional connection during Sapphire/Ruby or Diamond/Pearl though. Weird.
Would it be weird if I thought that there would be more legendary Pokemon? Still, great list and I can't wait for this game to release.
I agree with you so much ha, but is there a confirmed release date in the US?