Japanese games site Famitsu reports on the launch of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for the Nintendo DS this morning in Tokyo. As expected, it's a big opening day. Outside Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku, 150 people lined up before the store opened.
What's most impressive about the Nintendo DS is how well it's managed to do for itself without a Pokemon game. When things looked worst for DS, around the time everyone was drooling over PSP's graphics and wondering if Nintendo wasn't about to go out of business, the one weak line of defense that could be said about DS was "Well, it'll have Pokemon."
Now, with come-from-nowhere megahits like Brain Training and Animal Crossing, the DS doesn't even need Pokemon anymore. But Pokemon it gets. New Super Mario Bros. set a DS first-week sales record with around 900,000 units. Will Pokemon Diamond/Pearl break that?
