Pokémon Black and White now available for preorder at Gamestops in the US

[OMGITSJAD]

Source: GoNintendo

Now at Gamestops in the US, you can set your preorder for Pokémon Black and/or White...if you're into preordering games about 3/4 of a year before they come out...

[Dragiiin123]

I'm doing it.

[Alakazamaster]

XD Ridiculous. I may or may not pre-order it this early, more likely not. I mean, we only know 7 of the Pokemon in the games. It amazes me one can pre-order this early.

[Manny1250]

I might pre-order now
or then... maybe the ink of the receipt clear out by then

[Magmaster12]

To bad it doesn't say the release date.

[Jason_Henge]

Eep. There's just an estimated date of release. Who pre-orders that early? I at least want to know the gym leaders, more Pokemon, a bit of the storyline... something, you know. D:

[Yoshi648]

*waits for Cat to say he pre-ordered both*

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Originally Posted by Yoshi648

*waits for Cat to say he pre-ordered both*

He needs to do that for the stream alert video when he streams B/W in japanese.

[Dragiiin123]

I don't understand japanese, so, yeah. Not importing. SHI BING.

[Sableyed]

I think I'll wait till there's ACTUALLY A RELEASE DATE.

[FreezeWarp]

Is it just me or is Pokémon International using April Fools Day as an approx. release date constantly now...? Call me crazy, but I could swear that the same date was given for D/P, Platinum, and HG/SS from some official store (I remember Amazon at least).

Disclaimer: If anybody can give me background in this, I would appreciate it. Since I do like to be correct, who sets these days anyway, NOA, NOJ, Pokemon International, ...?

[Jason_Henge]

Are you saying this is a hoax? o3o I would laugh out loud most literally if it is.

[The Spirit of Time]

Wow! It is shocking how fast they are trying to sell these games.

[Shadow]

It's just ridiculous that the games are available for pre-order this early although we barely know anything about them. Why are they making everything so quickly these days?

[OMGITSJAD]

Originally Posted by FreezeWarp

Is it just me or is Pokémon International using April Fools Day as an approx. release date constantly now...? Call me crazy, but I could swear that the same date was given for D/P, Platinum, and HG/SS from some official store (I remember Amazon at least).

Disclaimer: If anybody can give me background in this, I would appreciate it. Since I do like to be correct, who sets these days anyway, NOA, NOJ, Pokemon International, ...?

Freeze, Gamestop and other stores like Amazon set these dates for placeholders for the real ones. They fall on the 1st or 31st of a month in a predicted quarter they are announced in.(Q2 2011 is B/W release, so April 1st.)

[James]

I smell a false release date.

[Cat333Pokémon]

I'm shocked that these games are already available for pre-order, considering they were only announced in Japan about two months ago and in the US only two weeks ago. Then again, this might mean that TPCi is going to stop messing around and actually start telling us things on schedule with Japan this generation. They know we've got the Internet and that we use it for Pokémon news, so any new info in Japan could be simultaneously--or even earlier--released in the US, such as main legends, Reshiram and Zekrom.

Because it's unlikely they don't know about folks halking the game from release, perhaps they might make no secret legends or use 256-bit encryption to make it difficult for sites to crack them.

Originally Posted by James

I smell a false release date.

The dates are definitely wrong. I predict a February, possibly March, release for this game.

[Jason_Henge]

I'm hoping for late March so I can get it as a birthday present.

[Dragiiin123]

Hoping February 22nd.

[LiteTheIronMan]

Originally Posted by OMGITSJAD

Source: GoNintendo

Now at Gamestops in the US, you can set your preorder for Pokémon Black and/or White...if you're into preordering games about 3/4 of a year before they come out...

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so... what... if you're a guy like me? (had preordered HGSS six months before it came out in the US and gloated about it constantly on the forums, to the point where I'm pretty sure most of you were sickened/annoyed.)

[OMGITSJAD]

Originally Posted by Dragiiin123

Hoping February 22nd.

All I know is I need to make sure I get $40 saved up from Xmas and my Birthday.

Originally Posted by LiteTheIronMan

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so... what... if you're a guy like me? (had preordered HGSS six months before it came out in the US and gloated about it constantly on the forums, to the point where I'm pretty sure most of you were sickened/annoyed.)

Wow, such an achievement. I'll be SO jealous that you put $5 on a game earlier than me by months when we'll be getting the same thing at the end. WOW.

[Luxray13579]

Wow. I want to wait because:
1. I KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE GAMES.
2. I want the figurines, badly.
3. I always like to wait until about a month before they come out to pre-order.

In the end I am getting Black because I am a Pokémon nerd!

[AuraKshatriya]

I actually pre-ordered Pokemon Diamond about as much ahead of time as if you were to order B/W now, so I`ll probably pre-order them soon as well.

I definitely have to get both this time, too. I personally like Zekrom`s design better, but my middle name translates as "Light" in English, so it wouldn`t be right not to get Black, given that Reshiram`s the "White Yang" Pokemon.

Yang=Light
Yin=Darkness