Pokemon Diamond and Pearl have just been released in Japan today. New information says there are a total of 114 new Pokemon in the two new games, taking the series up to a total of 500 Pokemon! So prepare to fill up those 18 boxes holding 30 Pokemon each, early in 2007 for us English speaking folks. If you want to spoil the game, see all new Pokemon evolutions here.
As you can see from the above waiting line with over a thousand people in it, Japanese young and old are excited. Nintendo put on quite a Pokeshow. The first (unconfirmed) reports suggest Nintendo sold out of TWO MILLION Pokemon Diamond/Pearl copies available at launch, as well as selling out of the extra half a million DS Lites they manufactured especially for the Pokemon launch day.
Exciting of course is the possibility of online co-op treasure hunting, trading (Pika!) you can see here, and watch a WiFi online battle demonstration below: