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By December 2008, Platinum had sold nearly 2.2 million units, making it Japan's best-selling DS game and second-best-selling game overall for 2008.

Pokémon Platinum sold 1 million copies in its first two days on the Japanese market. Additionally, five exclusive forms of Rotom were introduced, all of which are can be unlocked with a Secret Key available for download via Platinum's Mystery Gift function. Like Shaymin, Regigigas was released in America via Toys "R" Us. When the special Regigigas that is given out with a pre-order ticket for Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Shaymin is traded from Diamond or Pearl to Platinum, it activates an event that makes Regirock, Regice, and Registeel available to catch in Platinum. With the use of a new item in Platinum, the Gracidea Flower (which can be unlocked after obtaining the event Shaymin), Shaymin can be changed between its two forms. When traded to Diamond or Pearl from Platinum, it will transform from its Sky Forme back to its regular form, the Land Forme. Shaymin, which was distributed in Japan as part of admittance to the aforementioned film and in America through a promotion via Toys "R" Us, also gained a new form in Platinum, the Sky Forme. Recorder which allows players to save and replay videos of battles between friends. Other added features include the Battle Frontier (first introduced in Pokémon Emerald), which in Platinum adds three new facilities: the Wi-Fi Plaza an arcade area, in which the player can play minigames with other people over the Wi-Fi connection and the Vs. The game's storyline involves the awakening of Giratina, after which the Pokémon opens a portal to the "Distortion World", an alternate dimension in which the normal laws of physics do not apply.

With the use of a new item called the Griseous Orb found in the game, the player can decide which forme it uses. However, once the player comes out of the Distortion World, Giratina returns to its original "Altered Forme" as seen in Diamond and Pearl. The game features Giratina as its mascot and introduces its Origin Forme, a new form of the Pokémon as seen in the movie Giratina and the Sky Warrior. It was released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on September 13, 2008, in North America on March 22, 2009, and in Australia and Europe on and respectively.

Pokémon Platinum Version ( ポケットモンスター プラチナ Poketto Monsutā Purachina ?, "Pocket Monsters: Platinum ") is a director's cut version of Diamond and Pearl in the same vein as Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, and Emerald.