Pokémon Platinum Version is a 2008 role-playing video game developed by Video game Freak, released by The Pokémon Firm and also Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is a boosted version of Pokémon Diamond and also Pearl and is part of the 4th generation of the Pokémon computer game series. It was launched in Japan on September 13, 2008, and later in North America, Australia, and also Europe in 2009. The developers made Platinum with the intent of making it a more powerful variation of Diamond and Pearl, which they described as the best Pokémon titles. In Platinum, gamers regulate either a male or women character as well as begin with one of 3 Pokémon given to them from Teacher Rowan. The mascot Pokémon is Giratina, who plays a central duty in the video game s plot. While it just had one type in Diamond and also Pearl, it is provided a new alternative kind together with a new area called the Distortion Globe, which includes altered physics from the regular land of Sinn...