Nintendo Advises Pokemon Fans: Pre-Orders Top 500,000
Posted by: Aaron Lockard on April 18, 2007 5:46:07 PM (136 Reads)
Nintendo's lasting Pokemon offering already has 500,000 units sold!
Pre-orders for the upcoming Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl video
games for the portable Nintendo DS have topped one half million in the
United States, and Nintendo is advising fans to brace themselves for
the next wave of Poke-mania. Based on the huge pre-sales for Pokemon
Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, Nintendo expects them to be among the
top-selling games for all of 2007.
With four days to go until
they arrive, more than 533,000 pre-orders have been taken for Pokemon
Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. Already these games have more than doubled
the pre-sale numbers of Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen, which
launched in 2004. Pokemon FireRed and Pokemon LeafGreen went on to sell
more than 3.4 million combined in North America.
Pokemon Diamond
and Pokemon Pearl have consistently ranked among the top-selling video
game products on Amazon.com, and there are still four days until launch.
Pokemon
became a nationwide hit the instant it arrived in the United States in
1998. Now a new wave of Pokemon excitement is on its way, complete with
more than 100 new Pokemon characters, the ability for players to battle
wirelessly on Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and voice-chat abilities,
which act like a cell phone but with connection among friends only.