OP here, it seems you guys have elected to use this thread for silly arguments, that's fine, I expected as much.
To all the platinumfags ITT, look, you're right, platinum is better, I do remember liking the graphics better in areas like eterna forest and additional mons is a solid upgrade, but going over the mons that DP is missing from platinum, I don't particularly wanna use any of them. I do, however, wanna use Bastiodon and Purugly, so I'm set on Pearl
Honestly the biggest concession is gonna have to be the trainer teams as
>>53669600 says, the lack of Mon variety will be more evident on them than for my own team building. But, that said, I feel like
>>53670048 is probably right since I tend to feel this way about first versions in general like RS, GS, RB, BW etc etc, they're worse, sure, but I swear its like some of you on this board are holding a magnifying glass up to the 5% of the game's features that are different.