infexxionBest Buy: No Metroid Prime 3 till 2008
Pre-orders told not to hold their breath for Samus in 2007
No one's going to argue that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't a major part of Nintendo's upcoming Wii games stable, and that includes Reggie himself, who just over a year ago was saying that Mario, Zelda, and Metroid would make up the unstoppable trio of big-shot games in 2007 that would make hardcore gamers want a Wii. Of course back then Reggie was also saying that there wouldn't be a drought of games for the Wii and that Metroid Prime 3 would make it out in "early 2007". While it may be too early to call it a 'drought', we know that the latest in the Metroid series won't be hitting for a while yet, certainly not falling under most peoples' definitions of early 2007. If a recent post on Joystiq is to be believed, it could be even worse than we had originally thought.
It seems that customers who pre-ordered Metroid Prime 3 off of Best Buy's website have received notification that the date of release for Metroid Prime 3 has shifted to 12/31/2007. The example letter from Joystiq's post is included above. Of course, this is far from confirmation that Metroid Prime 3 won't be dropping this year. There has been no official response from Nintendo ("We don't comment on rumors and speculation"), and when retailers are unsure of release dates, often they'll simply list the end of the month (or perhaps in this case, the year) that they believe the game is supposed to be released in. Take it with a grain of salt for now, but also maybe whisper a prayer to the video game gods that we get our dose of strange planet exploration this year.
No one's going to argue that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption isn't a major part of Nintendo's upcoming Wii games stable, and that includes Reggie himself, who just over a year ago was saying that Mario, Zelda, and Metroid would make up the unstoppable trio of big-shot games in 2007 that would make hardcore gamers want a Wii. Of course back then Reggie was also saying that there wouldn't be a drought of games for the Wii and that Metroid Prime 3 would make it out in "early 2007". While it may be too early to call it a 'drought', we know that the latest in the Metroid series won't be hitting for a while yet, certainly not falling under most peoples' definitions of early 2007. If a recent post on Joystiq is to be believed, it could be even worse than we had originally thought.
It seems that customers who pre-ordered Metroid Prime 3 off of Best Buy's website have received notification that the date of release for Metroid Prime 3 has shifted to 12/31/2007. The example letter from Joystiq's post is included above. Of course, this is far from confirmation that Metroid Prime 3 won't be dropping this year. There has been no official response from Nintendo ("We don't comment on rumors and speculation"), and when retailers are unsure of release dates, often they'll simply list the end of the month (or perhaps in this case, the year) that they believe the game is supposed to be released in. Take it with a grain of salt for now, but also maybe whisper a prayer to the video game gods that we get our dose of strange planet exploration this year.
