Mother 3 gets a Japanese release date
Posted by inpheaux on January 24th, 2006 at 2:51 am
Straight from Shigesato Itoi's website comes news that Mother 3 [or Earthbound 2] now has an official Japanese release date: 20 APR 2006.
Here's a translation of the announcement, via Starmen.net:
"Mother 3's release date has been set. It will be April 20th, 2006 (Thursday). At least it's spring. It'll go on sale before the start of Golden Week. We'll be doing an official announcement pretty soon, but this is the "final" date. Once the release date is set, there are no more additions of new specs or anything like that. We'll no longer be able to fiddle around with anything in the game, unless it's something especially important. It makes me a little sad, but I can't be selfish. Since it's GameBoy Advance software, that naturally means that you'll also be able to play it on the Nintendo DS that everyone's so crazy about these days."
This date has also been confirmed by the incredibly sparse Mother 3 product page at Nintendo of Japan's site. Still no word as to if it'll be translated and released stateside, but hey, this is still super huge news. Hopefully localization plans will be announced at E3, or hell, maybe even earlier.
It's expected that since the game has a release date, and that release date is only a couple months off, that we might start getting to actually see or hear . . well . . anything about the game soon. I'd say I can't wait, but I've already waited a decade for solid details on the sequel to Earthbound, surely I can wait another couple months.
Lets hope we won't have to, though.
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