U.K. site HMV posts July 31 Platinum release date: No announcement from Nintendo yet

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U.K. site HMV posts July 31 Platinum release date: No announcement from Nintendo yet

U.K. retailer HMV has posted on its Web site a release date of July 31 for Pokémon Platinum. However, Nintendo of Europe has not yet made an official announcement.

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Re: U.K. site HMV posts July 31 Platinum release date: No announcement from Nintendo

Well, this news is redundant for a number of reasons:

1) HMV posting up a date of date that's the start or the first of any month is a placeholder date that's utterly meaningless outside of a general idea of what quarter the game's expected. This is a common practice by all game retailing websites and you'd be well taking note of this fact before reporting any more game date announcements in the future. If it's on a retailer's site and it's the first or last of a month, it's a nonsense date. (99% of the time)

2) Nintendo made their official announcement today and it's no-where near July:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB...ic_new_pokmon_game_is_coming_to_ds_11509.html
 
Re: U.K. site HMV posts July 31 Platinum release date: No announcement from Nintendo

2) Nintendo made their official announcement today and it's no-where near July:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB...ic_new_pokmon_game_is_coming_to_ds_11509.html
Hmm, link doesn't work. Bad vbulletin. :(

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2008/worth_its_weight_in_platinum_epic_new_pokmon_game_is_coming_to_ds_11509.html

Also, the information from Pokémon France was pretty much solid.

It seems a press release went out to some people, seeing how Eurogamer and CVG have reported it. In #bulbagarden, Serebii made it sound like he received the press release too.

I do think July 31 is a placeholder date or so, since we already know "first half of 2009" from Nintendo's financial briefing thing.

I hope it's just a coinidence that July 31 is a friday. o.o"

Edit:
NOE has a microsite, I don't see a date though:
http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/platinum/

Edit:
I'll close this now. Discuss the release date in the other thread.
 
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