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prophet789 April 1st, 2007 11:56 PM

Australian Release Dates
 
Hi all,
according to a copy of the catalog of EB Games, the release date for Diamond and Pearl is the 7th of June at $69.95.
Are you guys going to pre-order a copy or buy it after the release?
I'm going to pre-order it if I have enough money.

Paranoia April 2nd, 2007 12:42 AM

Awesome, Just a question everyone, Why is it always so god damn expensive in Australia, Its $35 American which = $43.32 Aus, So why does it cost so much more!

Crimson Arcanine April 2nd, 2007 12:43 AM

Buy at release, myself. I can't afford to pre-order atm.

It really annoys me it comes out so late in Australia. It means I have to spend about 45 days hearing about it and I don't even get to try it without buying an american version or getting some of of emulation device. And on another forum they were gonna have a tourmament in May and I'm one of few who can't be in it. :(

And pokemon games always cost heaps in Australia, R/S/E and LG/FR STILL sell for $59.95 in the shops despite how long they're been out. They haven't dropped a single dollar for nearly a year.

WaveBurst April 2nd, 2007 1:30 AM

Could you not just order the US copy off ebay since DS is region free?

Crimson Arcanine April 2nd, 2007 1:49 AM

Maybe, but is it actually legal to do so?

WaveBurst April 2nd, 2007 1:57 AM

I think so, But you wont be able to trade it in at a shop as its not an AUS game.

pokeplayer April 2nd, 2007 4:45 AM

I asked the guys at EB and they said that it waas the official realease but they did offer me a week early realase

Crimson Arcanine April 2nd, 2007 6:49 AM

Sorry, i just got worked up when I found out, I forgot to study up on the past realeases, since I have never bought a pokemon game as soon as its come out...

Ayano Katagiri April 2nd, 2007 9:58 PM

Hey well if Aus is getting it possibly in June... I'm guessing the NZ release will be around then as well. I hope the prices will have dropped enough by Christmas to get the English version... xD

eddie4ever April 3rd, 2007 1:19 AM

Cool i live in Aus 2 months away now

Crimson Arcanine April 3rd, 2007 1:22 AM

As I usually do, i'll keep an eye out. Starting from my birthday (April 19th). Hopefully us Aussies and New Zealanders are lucky?

But I doubt you'll see a price drop by Christmas thro. Drops in price for Pokemon games are as rare as hens teeth, from my experience. Of course i'm known to be wrong too....

prophet789 April 3rd, 2007 1:59 AM

Actually, I made a mistake, it is release during June, no set date, sorry.

Thunderdash April 3rd, 2007 4:29 AM

the uk date is 1st june well thats what Wikipedia says so the Australian could be before or after the uk date

Ayano Katagiri April 3rd, 2007 8:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulflame Ninetales (Post 2431625)
As I usually do, i'll keep an eye out. Starting from my birthday (April 19th). Hopefully us Aussies and New Zealanders are lucky?

But I doubt you'll see a price drop by Christmas thro. Drops in price for Pokemon games are as rare as hens teeth, from my experience. Of course i'm known to be wrong too....

xD, yup. Hopefully it'll be out quick.

Yeah, I have seen that too. Like Emerald still costs NZD$80... original release price and its a GBA game!!! So I'm guessing this will be up there still too, unless Boxing Day Sales come and save me.
Quote:

Originally Posted by Thunderdash (Post 2431732)
the uk date is 1st june well thats what Wikipedia says so the Australian could be before or after the uk date

Well that doesnt really help...

zeon9881 April 3rd, 2007 10:04 PM

for those who are wondering why it costs so much is because when you shp something from another region u need to pay the ship or airplane. so the extra money your paying is for the shipment to the city or country. none the less just get it inported =P

Crimson Arcanine April 3rd, 2007 10:10 PM

I guess Australia gets thiers from the US?

ltr_17 April 6th, 2007 5:50 AM

you get D/P in april 22nd. that is when it's released.

Trainer Kat April 6th, 2007 8:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2435483)
you get D/P in april 22nd. that is when it's released.

Yep, that's when it's released...in America. Australia's release dates do not parallel America's.

SuperDeoxys April 7th, 2007 4:31 AM

Realese Dates
 
I know 2 Relese dates Already,
Australia: April 22.
U.S: April 22.
Yay, I live in Australia!

Pazuzu April 7th, 2007 4:34 AM

http://scizz.com/pw/holdit.gif

We have a thread discussing a possible Australien release date already, so I'm just going to merge these two.

~merged~

SuperDeoxys April 7th, 2007 5:54 PM

Eh! Sorry for the lack, A hacker was on.

Ayano Katagiri April 7th, 2007 6:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperDeoxys (Post 2437617)
The Australian date is April 22!
I live there and it said April 22!

Ummm... no, that's the US release date. Aus release date is in June according to EB.

ltr_17 April 7th, 2007 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trainer Kat (Post 2435661)
Yep, that's when it's released...in America. Australia's release dates do not parallel America's.

no... in Aus it comes out on april 22nd. i even saw a little commercial about it... and besides! i could go on lay-by at the american time! anyway, it does get released in the same time as america/Aus. but in US, it is already out T_T

Paranoia April 8th, 2007 2:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltr_17 (Post 2438030)
no... in Aus it comes out on april 22nd. i even saw a little commercial about it... and besides! i could go on lay-by at the american time! anyway, it does get released in the same time as america/Aus. but in US, it is already out T_T

No sorry, once again, your incorrect, here are the release dates:

America: April 22nd 2007
Australia: TBA (To be announced)
Europe: TBA (To be announced)

It is out in Japan though, ONLY Japan.

If it was already out in America, no-one would be talking about the release date. (Seriously sometimes I wonder how you get this info)

Ayano Katagiri April 14th, 2007 4:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paranoia (Post 2438132)
America: April 22nd 2007
Australia: TBA (To be announced)
Europe: TBA (To be announced)

According to the IGN website, the release date for Europe has been put to June 1st 2007, but still no sign of a confirmed date for Australia.

wakachamo April 14th, 2007 5:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !!**Alex**!! (Post 2446606)
According to the IGN website, the release date for Europe has been put to June 1st 2007, but still no sign of a confirmed date for Australia.

IGN uses that date as a placeholder. No official release date has yet been confirmed.

idontnoWHOiam April 14th, 2007 7:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulflame Ninetales (Post 2430522)
Maybe, but is it actually legal to do so?

yes, it's legal. There's no reason why it would be illegal. Australia actually has some kind of law or statute that region coding is unlawful, so I'm pretty sure all games and systems sold within australia are region free.

Ayano Katagiri April 14th, 2007 8:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2446618)
IGN uses that date as a placeholder. No official release date has yet been confirmed.

Oh, okay I see. They really shouldnt place an exact date then.

UnHoly April 14th, 2007 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thunderdash (Post 2431732)
the uk date is 1st june well thats what Wikipedia says so the Australian could be before or after the uk date

weird amazon says June 30th but PLay says 1st June. Maybe ill import from Australia

wakachamo April 18th, 2007 12:11 PM

Well, this might not directly be related to Australia, but it's still good we're slowly getting to where we want to.

Apparently, as PPN has reported here, the European release date is finally here!
While I've yet to receive a press release from Nintendo themselves, and I can't seem to find the game on NoE's games database, this date might actually be credible.

Do note that there is still great room for speculation, as we haven't heard anything official from Nintendo yet.

I just wanted to post this here since PPN actually reported it, so we never know, but this might be the real, feasible thing.

PiplupRocks April 19th, 2007 7:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulflame Ninetales (Post 2430522)
Maybe, but is it actually legal to do so?

Yeaah its ;egal to do so.. Someone in america knew how to read japanese so she just went ahead and bought mystery dongeon from japan before it was released in america so yea..

_Prince_ April 19th, 2007 7:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2450969)
Well, this might not directly be related to Australia, but it's still good we're slowly getting to where we want to.

Apparently, as PPN has reported here, the European release date is finally here!
While I've yet to receive a press release from Nintendo themselves, and I can't seem to find the game on NoE's games database, this date might actually be credible.

Do note that there is still great room for speculation, as we haven't heard anything official from Nintendo yet.

I just wanted to post this here since PPN actually reported it, so we never know, but this might be the real, feasible thing.

Great, at least there's something to look forward to now.
If it's not June, it could be July or August, I don't see NOE releasing P/D beyond August.

wakachamo April 19th, 2007 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Prince_ (Post 2452001)
Great, at least there's something to look forward to now.
If it's not June, it could be July or August, I don't see NOE releasing P/D beyond August.

Yeah, to be honest I'm quite surprised as well; I was expecting a release date of around September or so. That's why I'm not too confident of what Amazon has to say. But hey, the sooner the better, right?

_Prince_ April 19th, 2007 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2452236)
Yeah, to be honest I'm quite surprised as well; I was expecting a release date of around September or so. That's why I'm not too confident of what Amazon has to say. But hey, the sooner the better, right?

Yeah and also according this http://n-europe.com/releases.php Pokemon P/D are due to release sometime in Q3. Which may mean July, August or September, any of those months.

Pokémon Diamond Q3 2007
Pokémon Pearl Q3 2007

AC_Drain April 19th, 2007 12:10 PM

Well knowing Nintendo, it will be the latest date possible. Remember, Smash brothers was meant to be one of the Wii's launch titles... Too bad pal ds can only run pal games, or else you could have just ordered it overseas.

wakachamo April 19th, 2007 12:19 PM

^Uh... that's not true at all. The Nintendo DS is not region-locked, and you can import D/P whenever you feel like it. Please refer to my "Clearing Up the Confusion on Regional Differences" thread, in this same board.

beauty. proletariat April 19th, 2007 10:01 PM

ZOMFG!!!! I cant wait 2 months!! I've heard soo much about it, i want it NOW!! 2 more days for the amerikanz!! Meh... around the 23rd, the english version will be all over the internet... So all i'll have to do is.... Get Torrent!! (i still cant be bothered downloading..)

Toothache April 20th, 2007 12:43 AM

DS = not region locked. My friend has a Japanese copy of Pearl, works fine on his English DS.

Anyway, if it's anything like the last couple of releases, Europe's gonna get D/P about October. Australia's probably gonna be about the same time I'd think, maybe earlier since it's closer to Japan.

Ayano Katagiri April 20th, 2007 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toothache (Post 2453096)
Anyway, if it's anything like the last couple of releases, Europe's gonna get D/P about October. Australia's probably gonna be about the same time I'd think, maybe earlier since it's closer to Japan.

Umm... obviously you've missed the announcement. Europe release date is June 30th.
Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2450969)
Apparently, as PPN has reported here, the European release date is finally here!
While I've yet to receive a press release from Nintendo themselves, and I can't seem to find the game on NoE's games database, this date might actually be credible.


matthew23q April 20th, 2007 3:56 AM

Yeh the release date for the au is june 7th.LOL only 49 days to go!!!

wakachamo April 20th, 2007 6:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthew23q (Post 2453161)
Yeh the release date for the au is june 7th.LOL only 49 days to go!!!

Where the heck did you get that from? If you could at least give a source I could link into it... although it's almost definitely a fake/placeholder date.

AC_Drain April 20th, 2007 7:04 AM

Really? Then why not just buy the us version? Get it offline and you'll have it 2 months early.

_Prince_ April 20th, 2007 7:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AC_Drain (Post 2453262)
Really? Then why not just buy the us version? Get it offline and you'll have it 2 months early.

Several reasons why not, Pal Park is highly unlikely that it'd be compatible with the European gba carts; European version of PBR won't be compatible with the USA's versions of Pearl/Diamond.

AC_Drain April 20th, 2007 7:18 AM

Ohh right. That makes sense. Well I don't see why pal games take song long to be released.

wakachamo April 20th, 2007 7:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Prince_ (Post 2453265)
Several reasons why not, Pal Park is highly unlikely that it'd be compatible with the European gba carts; European version of PBR won't be compatible with the USA's versions of Pearl/Diamond.

Actually, I'm going to prove you wrong with that. There's no reason as to why the Pal Park wouldn't work seeing as GBA carts are not region-restricted, and the Euro version of PBR is likely to work seeing as the wireless function of the DS carts are not region-restricted, as long as the DS's region matches the Wii's. Please refer to my Regional Differences thread for further information on importing.

Quote:

Originally Posted by AC_Drain (Post 2453271)
Ohh right. That makes sense. Well I don't see why pal games take song long to be released.

There are multiple factors to take in consideration when taking a game to another region. One thing is Nintendo's policy in having every Nintendo licensed game to have 5 languages in it: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. Now that alone takes quite. The second thing, seeing as the game is online, is to check compatibility with the European servers for the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection. The rest is just insider stuff to see if everything's alright and if the game works fine, or if there are still some minor glitches to be taken care of.

AC_Drain April 20th, 2007 7:29 AM

Ah that makes sense. Still, no one likes waiting. I've even called my friend at Gamestop and convinced him to open a few hours early on Sunday :laugh:

_Prince_ April 20th, 2007 7:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2453275)
Actually, I'm going to prove you wrong with that. There's no reason as to why the Pal Park wouldn't work seeing as GBA carts are not region-restricted, and the Euro version of PBR is likely to work seeing as the wireless function of the DS carts are not region-restricted, as long as the DS's region matches the Wii's. Please refer to my Regional Differences thread for further information on importing.



Okay...
I guess you are right about the Euro version of PBR working with the USA P/D.
But I'm not sure about the Pal Park yet.
We'll see soon.

wakachamo April 20th, 2007 7:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Prince_ (Post 2453288)
Okay...
I guess you are right about the Euro version of PBR working with the USA P/D.
But I'm not sure about the Pal Park yet.
We'll see soon.

Yeah, I can't prove anything as well. I've basing this off logic and some support from other members in such thread. I'll have to wait and see as well. =P

matthew23q April 21st, 2007 3:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakachamo (Post 2453244)
Where the heck did you get that from? If you could at least give a source I could link into it... although it's almost definitely a fake/placeholder date.

i cant give a source. its just what it said in the eb games cataloge. i preordered my diamond version today aswell and the guy said the ppl who preordered theres might get it a few days earlier.

Ayano Katagiri April 24th, 2007 1:09 AM

Announcement!

Release date for Australia set at June 21st 2007.

Source from PPN

Lmayonaise April 24th, 2007 1:21 AM

Quote:

Release date for Australia set at June 21st 2007.
That is indeed correct, I called NoA and asked them if they could notify me about a posibility on releasing the release date over the phone - same answer, June 21st. Gamespot has also got it reported.

Let the countdown begin!

Shiny April 24th, 2007 1:25 AM

Omg....I went to buy Diamond today and found out it hasent been releashed yet -_- dammit i read somewhere it was releashed on the 22nd of april

Ayano Katagiri April 24th, 2007 1:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrincessPeach (Post 2456934)
Omg....I went to buy Diamond today and found out it hasent been releashed yet -_- dammit i read somewhere it was releashed on the 22nd of april

That's the US release date you have there. D/P has already been released in the US.

Japan - Already released last year, September 28th, 2006
US - released only two days ago, April 22nd, 2007
Europe - June 30th, 2007
Aus - June 21st 2007

It's interesting that Aus gets it before Europe does xD

prophet789 April 24th, 2007 1:31 AM

I was texted by Noa today also stating that the date was pushed back yet again to the 21st of June. Damn. Now I'll have to get a copy whilst I'm in Sydney for Music camp over the holiday period. (Going down for a week with school from Brisbane)

Crimson Arcanine April 24th, 2007 2:25 AM

Well...

I'm officially steamed. June 21st?

Ah well...I guess I should be more patient.

TDark May 15th, 2007 9:11 PM

Hey fellow Aussies, don't know if anyone has already said this but Gametraders have had Diamond and Pearl in store since April 28. They're obviously imported copies from America but they've got the Aus classification stickers on the wrapping. Not sure how many stores of Gametraders there are around Australia, or how many copies they'd have left around though.

When I bought it they were selling them for $74.95 so $5 more than the retail when it finally comes out, but not bad for 2 months beforehand. Probably cheaper than importing it yourself too.


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