Can you get Latios and Latias in Pokemon Platinum?

You have to beat the Elite 4 on SAPPHIRE or RUBY and when you go downstairs your mother will tell you to come look on the news and it will mention that there was a sighting of a "flying Pokemon". She will ask you what color this Pokemon was, and if you say red, the Pokemon will be LATIAS, if you say blue, the Pokemon will be LATiOS. Roam around in the bushes (it may take a while) then you will eventually find LATIAS or LATiOS but every time you switch routes they will move to a different spot but after you encounter it for the first time it will apear on your pokedex and to see where it is you can just click AREA on your pokedex. I recomend that you either use a masterball or a Pokemon that can use a move to hold latias or latiOS because it will flee.

hope i helped :) evang9