Well, the wait is finally over. Head to your local GameStop and grab Jirachi for your Pokémon Diamond, Pearl or Platinum game! Hurry! This event only lasts two weeks and is in preparation for the release of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver (making way to your DS on March 14th). Go! Go now!
You almost never see Pokémon giveaways in the US so close to one another, but soon after the Pikachu-colored Pichu event is done, GameStop will be giving away the super rare Jirachi! Jirachi has never been given away on US shores, but starting February 27th and going through March 13th, you can walk into any GameStop store across the country with your DS system and copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl [...]
Pikachu-colored Pichu is still available at GameStop stores across the United States! The promotion started on January 30th and goes through February 14th! So, if you’ve got a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife who loves Pokémon, you can go together on Valentine’s Day! ;) Pikachu-colored Pichu is not only rare, but unlocks a secret event when traded to upcoming Pokémon games HeartGold and SoulSilver–when you visit a shrine in Illex [...]
Recent figures from popular Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu have shown that the Japanese games market is still suffering badly, with figures having fallen by 21.6% in October compared to figures from the same time last year. Hardware sales have dropped by 29.1%, whilst software sales have fallen by 14.9 percent. The PlayStation Portable, interestingly enough, was the strongest performer in the region, thanks to the release of the redesigned PSP [...]
Speaking to Gizmodo, SCEA marketing boss John Koller believes the new addition to Nintendo’s handheld family won’t move the company’s business out of the traditional demographic. “I can see the DSi being successful,” said Koller “The DS lite was obviously very successful. Will DSi do well with [the DS's] demographic? It probably will. Will it be a product that expands their user base [beyond] under 12? I’m not sure.” Koller [...]
NoA marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has told Wired Magazine that the DS Lite and DSi will be sitting side-by-side for “some period of time.” “We think that there’s huge untapped potential for the DS Lite,” said Dunaway. “Because when you’ve got only one in every five households in the U.S., compared to one in every two in Japan, it says there’s potential. “You’ve seen some of the work we’ve done [...]
