Oh well.......I went all around town, and to many different stores (Targets, Wal-Marts, Gamestops, K-Marts, Toys'R'Us's, Best Buys, a few obscure gameshops that are around) looking for this game today. Blew about a third of a tank of gas (and my car gets really good mileage too), no one around me has it yet.
Since Sega has made the game manual available online (
http://dl.sega.com/guide/infinite-space/in...g-manual-us.pdf ), I'll just wait for a free slurpy scene release like everyone else then. It's not like I need to buy it for the manual anymore.
The only possible reason for me to even consider buying it now is if it has AP when it hits the scene. And we all know it most likely will have the same type of AP as Sonic Classic and Sega Racing did. I figure that if it doesn't run on my CycloDS when a scene release hits (probably tomorrow or Thursday), it will be sometime next week before TC will get another FW update out to fix it (they've been pumping FW updates out lately, but they already released one this week). Screw it! I think I can wait one more week to play it free instead of buying it. After all, there's always a chance the DS emulators will play it just fine......I'll practice up on the emu, and I'll be that much more familiar with it when the game is fixed on the CycloDS and I'll save money in the process.
One Gamestop employee told me that they'll have it tomorrow (and I assume everyone else will too), but the game is going to have a small production run......this might end up making it hard to find if one doesn't pre-order it (or if no one dumps it for the scene).
But you know, it WAS a Gamestop employee.....
....I take everything they say with a grain of salt. Most of them don't have a clue what's going on anyway and they just......hesitate when you ask them something, then just start talking at you, trying to recommend stuff you don't care about or attempting to sell you a pre-order or some discount card, regardless of how much (or little) they actually know about....anything. It's very exhausting going to Gamestop......