i don;t what i should get pokemon platinum or wait for metroid prime trilogy because metroid prime trilogy is coming out in august so when i go to orlando shuld i get pokemon platinum or wait for metroid prime trilogy

and i can't get both because i only get 1 game every 2-3 months

oh and by the way i have never played any pokemon games on the ds and i have never played a metroid game

so what should i get and i need to know now because i am going to florida in like 2 weeks

The Metroid Prime Trilogy is a superb value, especially @ 49.99 USD. Pokemon Platinum is also a great value... can't you just get both?

EDIT:  Get Metroid Prime Trilogy.  It's just too great of a value, especially to newcomers.

like i said i can't get both because if i do then i can't get any other game until christmas because i can't spend too much money and i would have gotten both but i am also waiting for NSMBWii in November so yeah but then in the holidays here in canad there is this thing called boxing day where everything is cheap so in that i can usually get around $10-$20 dollars off so in that case if i got that type of a deal ($10 or $20 off) on Platinum then i will get that too but for now i am going to with what u said and get metroid prime trilogy and then NSMBWii and then if there is the deal on Platinum i will pick that up too!!!thanks for the tip.....

can u or other people tell me what metroid is like besides that it is a great game because nintendo made it because i already that reason (lol) and that it is a shooter....lol

anyway thanks again for the tip smokedhostage

Metroid is a series of platforming adventure games.  They're held in high regard because of their non-linear(Well Metroid-Super Metroid are non-linear games)gameplay, emphasis on exploration, immersive artstyles and music, and item collection. 

get metroid trilogy, you get 3 amazing games, but if you want infinite replayability get pokemon platinum.

well firstly what is non-linear mean in videogames and secondly i was looking for more like is it worth it andwhat the gameplay is like and how it compares to others shooters like halo or bioshock or conduit??? and metroid is first-person shooter right??

Metroid Prime Trilogy, definitely.

Pokemon is portable, and I would get that. Metroid is fine unless you get motion sickness like I do, but you need to have a "Wii" and it takes time to set it up, but I would go with something portable and has multiplayer, so get Pokemon Platinum.

its first person allright, but its not a shooter, its more of an adventure, more jumping around, readings lore, solving puzzles, the closest you get to shooter is prime 3 but it still remains exploration intensive.

Non-linear means there are several paths to a goal as opposed to one single solution, and it's a shooter in the sense that it's from a first person perspetive and you shoot things but the main focus is on exploration and puzzles as opposed to the shooting (but you do a lot of that as well). I would compare it to Bioshock in the sense that they both have a lot of focus and puzzles and such, but where as Bioshock is divided into levels, Metroid is one big world in which you travel back and forth across as you aquire new wepons and abilities.