[kupoartist]

Originally posted by Iguana
You might as well just go ahead and faint. The ETA is November 1, 2004, and knowing Hideo Kojima, and how anal he gets about his game being perfect, that date will be pushed back into 2005. Our of curiosity, where in the world are you? As I knew it, games come to Japan, then USA, then Europe, then the rest of Asia, then Australia...

Australia / New Zealand get console games at the same time as the European copies... plus or minus a week. I'm not totally sure about Asia in general, as I gather the releases are staggered a bit (I think Korea gets them pretty quick, and most of the TV / Electric standard are like the US/Japanese ones. Plus there are BIG piracy rings in asia). I seem to remember that Grim_Reaper is a "Southern Hemisphere European" ^_^

Regardless, i'll be very suprised if I see MGS3 on any (legit) shelf next month. Retailers know no more than we do when it comes to big games like this: check the website and draw your own conclusion from other "offical" materials.