Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl DLC Roadmap: Will There Be a Platinum Expansion?

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining pearls allows players to relive iconic originals, while elevating them to more modern standards. However, many users are wondering if the game will move beyond that by releasing brand new downloadable content. Others are hoping the Pokemon Platinum expansion will restore that game’s missing content in these remakes. With all that in mind, here’s the summary of the Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl DLC roadmap.

All Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl DLC

Here’s all the downloadable content for Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for Nintendo Switch:

• Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Pre-Order Bonus:
  • Manaphy’s Egg
  • 12 fast balls
• Pokemon Shining Pearl Pre-Order Reward
  • Manaphy’s Egg
  • 12 fast balls
• Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Double Pack Pre-order Rewards:
  • Manaphy’s Egg
  • 12 fast balls
  • 200 balls

All Pokemon Shining Pearl and Brilliant Diamond add-on content is in the form of pre-order bonuses. Since the games are faithful remakes of their Nintendo DS counterparts, it doesn’t seem likely that brand new original content will be available in the future.

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: Will They Add Platinum Content?

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl do not include Pokemon Platinum content as standard. Nintendo and The Pokemon Company may add a Platinum expansion in the future, but no announcement has been made at this time.

Pokemon Platinum is a Gen IV entry that essentially includes Diamonds and Pearls, and adds new content (supposedly the official version). There are visual, narrative, gameplay and map changes – however, perhaps the biggest difference is the greater number of Pokemon to catch and collect.

Obviously, Pokemon fans would love to see improvements from Pokemon Platinum ported to Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl as downloadable content. Whether it will eventually appear on the Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl DLC roadmap remains to be seen.

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