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White 10 62.50%
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Old 03-06-2011, 07:53 PM   #1
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Manaphy Pokemon: Black or White

Which did you get?
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:10 PM   #2
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I don't see an option for neither. ¬_¬ You never know: there may be others besides myself.
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:20 PM   #3
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I guess you don't see in black or white.

Someone has voted, so they clearly could see it.
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:27 PM   #4
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{raises hand} Yeah, that was me.

Got White, mostly because a) I always get the 'underdog' (Blue, Silver, etc) of the pairings, and 2) Zekrom looks awesome.
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:51 PM   #5
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:52 PM   #6
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Talon in judging a book by its cover SHOCKER!

>I'm no white supremist, but once you go black, you don't go back.

I tried black.

I went back.
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:56 PM   #7
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My flatmate had already ordered black by the time I got around to it, so I got white.
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Old 03-06-2011, 08:58 PM   #8
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White. First time I've broken my trend of getting the first of each title, mainly because the version exclusives in white feel more like the first title (Solosis, Rufflet, Zekrom. It's obviously just an opinion). My want for Reuniclus and my dislike of Reshiram also swayed my vote.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:00 PM   #9
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Solosis is the reason I got White. I have been waiting an age to use Green Goo Boy.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:01 PM   #10
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I wouldn't put Silver or White in the same camp as Sapphire or Pearl. Reply got too long, but a picture says a thousand words:


I cut Ruby and Sapphire out of the picture since I couldn't authoritatively remember all too well what the relative popularities of the versions sold were, only that (initially) everyone was much more excited for Groudon than Kyogre. But the other three I can speak for:

Gen II: Gold sold more than Silver did by color alone, but Silver was greatly buoyed by Lugia, the star of the 2nd movie which had come out that very same year (2000).

Gen IV: I think we all know how this one turned out. I was one of the Pearl purchasers, a little bit because it had a few version exclusives I wanted to run into the wild more badly than Diamond had but mainly because my good friend irl at the time who bought the games with me was deadset on getting Diamond and we both wanted us to have opposite versions for trading purposes.

Gen V: I think this is Gen 2 all over again. People will like Black because it's "edgier" or "cooler" to have, but let's face facts: 9 out of 10 kids agree they'd rather have Zekrom than Reshiram. [/made-up statistics] This is going to be another case of the box cover creature for the supposedly "less-popular" color buoying its sales big time.

In fact, there's already evidence for this on Amazon.com: I checked earlier today just out of curiosity, and whaddya know: White is selling for $5 off instantly at $29.99, but Black is being sold at $34.99 with $10 Amazon store credit credited to your account after you check out, bringing its effective price down to $24.99. I've no idea why they're doing two different methods for the price slashing (i.e. why they don't just slash Black's price to $24.99 in the first place), but this is what they're doing. Regardless, it suggests that they have a much bigger supply of Black cartridges than they have demand. In other words, Amazon called it wrong because they didn't anticipate just how much the kiddies would rather have Zekrom than have the black box art.

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Old 03-06-2011, 09:13 PM   #11
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I was a little surprised to hear that they only had copies of Pokemon Black for retail sale at my Gamestop. I knew that White wasn't going to do very well comparatively.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:26 PM   #12
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I don't have my copy yet, but I'm leaning towards Black for version exclusives (specifically Whimsicott and Gothitelle). I could still sway the other way; I definitely like Zekrom more than Reshiram, I can still get a Cottonee through an in-game trade, and Reuniclus is pretty cool. I think the deciding factor might be whether I'd prefer Black City or White Forest.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:43 PM   #13
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No to both on the grid, I white because of version exclusives and my bro got Diamond.
Gothitelle and Whimsicott eff year.
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Old 03-06-2011, 09:59 PM   #14
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The grid isn't "How did you pick?" The grid reflects how everyone picked as a whole community. For instance, I picked Silver, but that doesn't change the fact that I recognize that Gold was the more popular color (and the more popular cartridge, barely) back then. It isn't trying to prove why you picked what you picked, it's just in response to an earlier post in which it was suggested that White is this generation's Pearl. And I'm saying "No way in hell is it this generation's Pearl" when it's got Zekrom on the cover and Psychic Sackboy inside.
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:11 PM   #15
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i personally liked zekrom initally but now im more towards reshiram, still im gonna get white either way XD
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Old 03-07-2011, 12:59 PM   #16
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Frelling WhiteFireDragon and HeartOfDarkness.


Translation; Black all the way, baby.
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Old 03-08-2011, 07:22 PM   #17
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Old 03-08-2011, 07:26 PM   #18
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Old 03-10-2011, 02:22 PM   #19
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hes yellow mellow XD
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Old 03-10-2011, 03:54 PM   #20
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I don't see an option for neither. ¬_¬ You never know: there may be others besides myself.
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