Metroid Prime 3 may not see 2007 release
- March 13, 2007 16:55 PM PST
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Best Buy states to customers that Metroid Prime 3: Corruption won't see release until December 31 2007.
By Dawn Wilkins
Initially reported as one of the games to keep the "drought" of Wii games from occurring in the early months of the console, it appears that Metroid Prime 3 might not be available to 2008. Along with Mario and Zelda, Metroid is considered a major games series for Nintendo and the latest in the series was slated to arrive in "early 2007" to fuel sales of the Wii and dispel concerns of game shortages for the system.
This information, however, is contradicted by reports from customers of Best Buy who recently received a letter on their shipments. Those who had pre-ordered a copy of the game have reportedly received notification that the game has a new release date of 12/31/2007, not quite "early 2007" as originally purported. With the first quarter of the year just beginning to end the shipment date can change but there has been no comment from Nintendo on the matter.
Retailers often estimate the release date of highly-anticipated games and this could be one such case. However, it is unknown at this time why Best Buy has chosen to notify their customers of this new date as Nintendo still shows the original date of 6/1/2007 on their website.
While this conflict of release dates does not necessarily indicate that Metroid will be pushed past this year, it is something being watched by fans of the series and those within the industry.
