2006 err... 7?

Last day of 2006, how sad! Tommorrow will bring a lot of firsts, the first time you wake, the first time you sleep. Tomorrow will be a fresh start for us all. Seing how I live on the East Coast, I will experience 2006 first! If you talk to me, I'll tell you how it feels. Also here is a first, err... second? last? of 2006, the is surprisinly not going to be any nXt Episodes/eP untill Saturday, Jauary 13, 2006! We'll just have to wait all together. And here is on thing I can tell you is going to happen with all of us, in 20067 we will write 2006 on everyting untill 2008! Also it isn't snowing where I live and it will not be the first snow of the year! JRBNET wishes everyone, especially in New England, a safe and happy New Year! See you all in 2006, untill then this is JirachiRob, DDeoxys, and JPPokémon wishing everyone a prosperous new year! Goodbye '06 Hi '07! But we can't just shove 2006 out of the door, we need to throw it a goodbye party.

NEW@PokémonCenter.com

For all you fans wondering when new Pokémon toys are coming out, your wait will soon be over. Pokémon USA (www.pokemon.com) has just announced some upcoming toy releases with a sneak peak view of some of the 3 inch figures.

The new toys will become available starting in January, 2007 at PokémonCenter.com and your favorite toy store, according the the news brief.

Toys announced today and Pokémon featured include:

• Deluxe Figures: Talking, sometimes will light-up (Pikachu)
• Battle Spinners: A Poké Ball-like top with a Pokémon figure inside that can be spun and made to do battle with other Spinners (Mudkip, Blaziken)
• Figures: Three-inch figures available individually and in multipacks (Pikachu, Squirtle, Lucario, Munchlax)
• Mini plushes: Cute stuffed and soft Pokémon (Pikachu, Butterfree, Duskull)

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MERRY CHRISTAMS

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Merry Christmas

I'd like to take this moment to wish all of you and your families a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy Hanukkah or Kwanza. We hope all your hopes and wishes are fulfilled and you have a joyful holiday.

If you are traveling, please be safe. If you are with family, enjoy thir company and love. May Peace, Hope, and Love be with you Today, Tomorrow, and Always, and you recieve all the happiness you could wish for.


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Pokémon Hits the Charts, HARD

The week is unusual in that although only one title sold above 100,000 units the sales for the rest of the top ten were remarkably even, with multiple games sharing the expanded business of the week. The top sellers were the two Nintendo DS Pokémon games, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, with the dual SKU title now having sold around 3.5 million copies in Japan alone.

The highest new entry of the week was a DS entry in ChunSoft’s core Mystery Dungeon series, one of the few games in the franchise which does not use a cross company license from Nintendo or Square Enix. The latest in the Wild Arms role-playing series also performed well at number eight, as did Pokémon Battle Revolution – the first major new release since the launch of the Wii and its first online title.

Western gamers though may be surprised to find that The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has charted only at number thirty-three, while the only other Wii titles outside the top ten are Wii Play at number twelve, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves at number thirty-six and anime license Bleach Wii at number fifty.

As is by now commonplace, the Nintendo DS was the best selling hardware of the week by a considerable margin, with a total of 319,866 unit sales. The Wii was next at 108,237 units, followed by the PlayStation 3 at 70,942, the PSP at 48,962 and the PlayStation 2 at 37,730 units.

TW	LW	Title	Publisher	Format	Weekly Sales
1	3	Pokémon Diamond	Nintendo	DS	123,573
2	5	Pokémon Pearl	Nintendo	DS	97,409
3	7	Hoshi no Kirby: Sanjou! Dorocche Dan	Nintendo	DS	92,173
4	NE	Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren DS	Sega	DS	88,242
5	12	New Super Mario Bros.	Nintendo	DS	77,761
6	11	Oshare Majo Love and Berry	Sega	DS	72,841
7	9	Jump Ultimate Stars	Nintendo	DS	71,339
8	NE	Wild Arms: The Vth Vanguard	Sony	PS2	70,476
9	6	Wii Sports	Nintendo	Wii	69,923
10	NE	Pokémon Battle Revolution	Nintendo	Wii	67,607

Pokémon Movie News

From our friends over at PPN we have the final Japanese box office earnings for the ninth Pokémon movie, Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy.

Earnings have been revealed to be ¥3.4 billion (US$29 million), which are the second lowest earnings in history of Pokémon, falling just behind the fourth movie at ¥3.9 billion but ahead of the fifth movie at ¥2.67 billion. However, the ninth movie is the fifth-highest earning Toho movie of the year, facing stiff competition from Gorō Miyazaki's Tales from Earthsea, among others.

Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea: Manaphy will be released on Region 2 DVD in Japan today.

Pokémon D/P US News (+Useless Info!)

Pokémon trainers of the world, unite! How else will you manage to complete your PokéDex and challenge the sinister plot of Team Galactic? On April 22, 2007 Pokémon® Diamond and Pokémon® Pearl, the Pokéemon series for the best-selling Nintendo DS(TM) game system, become available in the Americas. These two titles represent the latest adventure in the popular Pokemon franchise.

Gotta Catch 'Em All! The Next Generation of Pokémon Soon Will Be Here

Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl offer a number of exciting new features to please both experienced and new Pokémon fans alike. Set in an entirely new region called "Sinnoh," players can choose to begin their adventure as either a boy or girl Pokémon trainer on a path to becoming Pokémon League Champion. The adventure continues as players can bring Pokémon from their Game Boy® Advance Pokemon games to Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl using the GBA game slot on their Nintendo DS.

As players trade and collect Pokémon to complete their Pokedex in this new challenge, for the first time they'll have the chance to catch new Pokémon, Munchlax(TM) and Weavile(TM). They also can play via local wireless with up to eight other trainers while new moves and abilities deepen strategy.

"After recently celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Pokémon franchise continues to get stronger," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. "These two new titles represent the best that Pokémon has to offer, and a great opportunity for Game Boy users to upgrade to Nintendo DS."

Unique pre-sell styluses featuring new Pokémon from the new series will be available by reserving the game early at participating retailers. Stay tuned for more details about this special offer. Pokémon games continue to be wildly popular around the world, with more than 155 million units sold worldwide through September 2006. Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl are currently shattering sales records in Japan since their September launch.

Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl for Nintendo DS will be available April 22, 2007, and are Rated E for Everyone.

Pokémon USA, Inc., a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages and oversees the property outside of Asia, which includes licensing activities, brand promotions, publication of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, TV animation, home video entertainment, the official Pokémon.com Web site and PokémonCenter.com, an e-commerce site. Nintendo of America manages marketing and distribution of Pokémon video games.

Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 for play on Nintendo's Game Boy® and has evolved into a global cultural phenomenon. Pokémon was introduced in North America in September 1998 and has since generated more than $26 billion in worldwide retail sales. More than 40 million Pokémon video games have been sold in the United States, including Pokémon Emerald, which was the No. 2 best-selling video game of 2005, according to the NPD Group. The Pokémon Trading Card Game, fueled by Pokémon Organized Play programs around the world, has spurred global sales of more than 14 billion cards to date, while the Pokémon animated series set to debut its ninth season, Pokémon: Battle Frontier, on Cartoon Network this fall, consistently ranks within the top three shows for boys ages 6 to 11. For more information, visit www.pokemon.com.

The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii(TM), Nintendo DS(TM), Game Boy® Advance and Nintendo GameCube(TM) systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.2 billion video games and more than 387 million hardware units globally, and has created industry icons like Mario(TM), Donkey Kong®, Metroid®, Zelda(TM) and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com.

Wii and DS News

We have 2 bits of Nintendo news for you today; the first is an announcement of the Opera Browser for the Nintendo Wii console (yay!) Second is a rumor floating around the web of the NDS Lite getting a bigger screen size.

Nintendo's wildly popular Wii™ home video game system not only revolutionizes how people play games, but it also entices new people into the world of gaming. On Dec. 22, Nintendo and Opera Software bring the Internet to the living room couch with a free beta version of the Opera Web browser. Wii owners who are connected and have activated the Wii Shop Channel can download a free beta version of the Opera browser to activate the Internet Channel of the Wii Menu and begin surfing the Web.

"This newest Wii Menu channel provides yet another feature to draw non-gamers in," says Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. "All kinds of people already have discovered that Wii is like nothing they have ever tried before, and our red-hot sales reflect this public enthusiasm."

"Our software brings the power and reach of the Internet to the hottest video game system available," says Scott Hedrick, Executive Vice President, Devices, at Opera Software. "Wii's unique interface adds a new dimension to our browser, making it a useful tool that the whole family will enjoy operating with ease."

The final version of the Opera browser will be available at the end of March 2007, and will be free for all Wii owners to download through the end of June 2007. After June, users who haven't already downloaded the Opera browser can go to the Wii Shop Channel to download it for 500 Wii Points.


Next up is a rumor of bigger NDS screens:

Love them or hate them, Nintendo has got to be one of the smartest marketers on the planet. They saw that the bulky (and somewhat unsightly) Nintendo DS wasn't as popular as it could have been, so they design a sleeker, almost Apple-like DS Lite to appeal to the masses and its popularity spreads like wildfire. Older people fall in love with Brain Age, younger folks with Pokémon, and the rest of us are drawn in by Tetris DS and Mario Kart DS. But wait, they're not done.

Word from a French gaming magazine is that Nintendo is working on yet another version of the Nintendo DS. Whereas the Lite shrunk things down to more pocketable proportions, this yet unnamed iteration will make those trademark dual screens bigger. The new displays will be in the 3.5- to 3.8-inch realm, and they even toss in a couple of other upgrades to spice up the new package even further. If the smaller version is the DS Lite, does that make this the DS Heavy? (for reference, the original unit is unofficially known as the DS Phat)

Still a rumor, but there are rumblings that this new DS will be ready for market some time in 2007.

D\P Release Dates

Mark your calendars! Pokémon Diamond and Pearl comes out Sunday, April 22, 2007!

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Manaphy Reavealed!

As promised, the official Pokémon website at www.pokemon.com revealed more information on Manaphy today. The secret code needed to unlock the Manaphy mission in Pokémon Ranger wasn't revealed (it will be revealed later this month at the official Pokemon site). However, the official US title for the 9th Pokémon movie was revealed: Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea (the Japanese title was: Pokémon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea). The official site listed Spring 2007 as the release date for the movie (which is the same date we've known for quite a while now). You can read the announcement from the official Pokemon website below:

Manaphy Makes Its Appearance

The newest Pokémon to make a splash is Manaphy, star of the upcoming movie, Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, which is scheduled for release this spring! We don't have a lot of information about Manaphy just yet, but we can tell you this - you won't be able to get it by just playing through Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl!

First, you'll have to access a special Ranger Net mission in Pokémon Ranger. This special mission will send you on a quest to search for the Manaphy Egg. Once you clear the mission, you'll be asked to guard the Manaphy egg. You cannot hatch or raise Manaphy in Pokemon Ranger! You can send the egg to Pokemon Diamond and/or Pokemon Pearl, where you can then hatch and raise Manaphy!

Check back later this month for more details on the Manaphy egg mission, including the secret code needed to unlock the special Manaphy mission!

PKMN D/P ON .COM

The official Pokémon website has revealed a new page for Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl. You can access the page by clicking on the Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl icon on the main page of the official site at www.pokemon.com, or you can use this direct link: http://www.pokemon.com/flash.asp?qString=diamondandpearl

Although no exact release date was revealed, a Spring 2007 release date (same date we've known for a while now) was listed at the page.

Information and Screenshots from the official website:

Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl are coming! Get ready for a brand new adventure in 2007!

A brand new world is waiting for you on the Nintendo DS this spring - Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl are two new games for the Nintendo DS which get back to the roots of Pokémon RPG's. Battling, collecting, and training are back and this time they take place in a new region - Sinnoh!

The Sinnoh region is a lush and beautiful area filled with lots of different plants and Pokemon. You start your adventure from a place called Futaba Town.*

Male Character

This is home of the main male character in Futuba Town* where the story starts. He looks ready for anything!

Female Character

This is the main girl character. With an eye-catching white hat and her bag slung low, she's ready to take on the world! Or at least Sinnoh!

The game has a 3D feel to it!

Check out one of the main characters walking through Sinnoh!

On the Path to Adventure!

Our fearless female character takes a stroll. Is that a Pokémon Center above her?

Beyond the Sea

What lies beyond this mysterious beach? Does this body of water connect to other areas of Sinnoh?

New Characters and Familiar Faces!

You may have seen some of these Pokémon before, but now you'll be able to play them in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl!

Munchlax uses a "Swallowing" attack!

Munchlax has a new unique move called Gulp* which recovers strength!

Weavile attacks with Revenge!

Although not much is known about this new attack, it looks effective!

*All names are tentative.

Pokémon Director Speaks About Next Movie

The director of the 10th Pokémon movie, Dialga vs. Palkia, Kunihiko Yuyama (湯山邦彦), wrote about the movie on the official blog for the movie. He explained the rationale for the title and also outlined the plot.
'A lively movie with a festive atmosphere'

Dialga and Palkia are like the face of Diamond and Pearl; as representative Pokémon, I thought I would like to have Dialga and Palkia in the title of the movie... and there's no way to do that except with Dialga vs. Palkia, is there? Usually we discuss with the departments above until a title is selected, but this time unlike previous occasions, we unanimously decided to go with the straight, simple, Dialga vs. Palkia.

Dialga rules time, and Palkia rules space, so the scale of the story is large, but, since the design of Dialga and Palkia was that they lived in an alternate dimension, so we decided that their fight in the alternate dimension would affect reality - the world of Satoshi and friends - Dialga and Palkia will appear before Satoshi and friends and drag the city they have arrived at into it as well - in a manner that will raise the question of, if they destroy this city, isn't it possible that they will destroy the whole world as well?

I would also like to involve the main characters' Pokémon in the movie, who we haven't really been able to portray in the past. Not only Satoshi, Hikari and Takeshi's Pokémon will appear in the movie, but there will also be many Pokémon belonging to guest characters. To put in as a single sentence, I would like it to be a very lively movie with a festive atmosphere.

Remote Strap Recall

OKYO - 15 Dec 2006 - Nintendo said Friday it will replace 3.2 million straps for its popular Wii computer game controllers after receiving a rash of reports that the device flew out of the hands of players.

The voluntary exchange program is a bittersweet development for Nintendo - a costly hitch in its three-way battle with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360, but also confirmation of its enthusiastic reception worldwide.

The Wii's signature wand-like remote controller is used to mimic the motions of a tennis racket, golf club or sword, depending on the game. But soon after the Wii went on sale last month, people started reporting cases of the controller's strap breaking as they waved it about vigorously.

Nintendo will allow customers to exchange the old straps, which have a 0.024 inch diameter, for a beefed up strap that has a diameter of 0.04 inch, company spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said. The worldwide exchange is expected to cost the company several million dollars.

Customers can exchange the straps through their local Nintendo service centers, Minagawa said. US users click here for online replacements.

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ポケモン映画10 -- Pokémon Movie 10

As you know, the next new Pokémon Movie was announced earlier this month, and now the 10th Pokemon movie title has finally been revealed. The official site of the tenth Pokémon movie has been launched, and the title of the movie, which will be the first movie in the Diamond & Pearl series, is Theatrical Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Dialga vs. Palkia
(劇場版ポケットモンスターダイヤモンド・パール　ディアルガVSパルキア).

The movie is slated for premiere on July 14, 2007, and the locale is based on various parts of Spain. Also announced was the next Pikachu movie short, tentatively titled Pikachu Movie 10.

PPN Added: View the teaser by clicking on this image:

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Pokémon X is now on iTunes. Click Here.

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Tomorrow...

... is your last day to order you Pokémon Christmas items and have them here by Christmas, that is if you live in Hawaii.

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Japanese Promotion

After two years since the last promotion, Japan will see tomorrow the return of the Mysticticket and Eon Ticket items. Distributed from Dec. 9 to Jan. 5 at Pokémon Center stores, Pokémon Town and the Pokémon Center Winter Festival event, the statistics of Japanese players with access to the two promotional items is bound to receive a boost in the upcoming month.

Mysticticket and Eon Ticket bode well for GBA games..

This comes as a surprise when factoring in the fact that the GBA games have been acknowledged sporadically in the past year. Once the Old Sea Map was distributed at PokéPark in Sept. 2005, the five RPG games gave way to what was called The Path to Diamond and Pearl, a project which eventually turned out to have little with Diamond and Pearl and all to do with three spin-off games for the Nintendo DS. The rest of the year was spent on advertising the two main games, and finally, their release in Japan. Be the ends as they may, there was precisely a one-year period in which the traditional games were more or less put on hold. More...

Read the full story on BulbaNews.

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Pokémon Battle Revolution UP^Date

Pokémon Palace Network:

Hey guys just a short but good update. Here is the link to a new and short video of battle revolution. click image for flash version (320x240 - flash required.) or below to watch in wmv.

click here

Enjoy!

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PokémonCenter-Online CLOSED

Japanese Pokémon Store website, pokemoncenter-online.com, has officially closed. For the last five years from March, 2001 to November 30th, 2006 it was one of the premier sites for Pokemon Merchandise.

It is being replaced by the official Pokémon website (www.pokemon.jp) which added a Shop section on August 11, 2006. All customer information will be deleted on February 28th of 2007 from their databases. Customers of pokemoncenter-online.com that wish to buy Official Pokémon merchandise have now been directed to visit the shop on the offical site.

Pokémon 'Tackle' The Charts Once Again

According to Famitsu's game rankings, the latest games in the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, have held the No. 1 position on the Japanese sales charts for eight straight weeks, beating the seven-week record of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.

Famitsu reports that 101,113 units were sold in the week ending Nov. 19 and estimates that a total of 3,161,145 units have been sold. Diamond and Pearl finally gave way to Sega's Fashionable Witches ♥ Love and Berry ~DS Collection~ (オシャレ魔女 ♥ ラブ and ベリー 〜DSコレクション〜) and Nintendo's Jump! Ultimate Stars in the week ending Nov. 26.

See more top 5 games (all platforms) as of Nov 28 on the PPN Blog.