The Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB PS3 bundle has been sold early on a few accounts from a Wal-Mart, and Konami has responded to it. The scheduled release date is June 12th. Konami said that all of the major stores that sell the bundle had a written contract with Konami so that they wouldn't sell it early.

Despite the measurements taken by any publisher, high-profile games always seem to have one store, if not more, break their legal street date. This had been the case with many games before Metal Gear Solid 4 and it will be the case with many following it. This week, a couple of Wal-Marts were reported to have sold the Metal Gear Solid 80GB PS3 bundles up to a week before the scheduled release of the title on June 12.

Earlier in the week, Pete Stone, Konami's UK General Manager had commented on their plans for the release of MGS4.

"We pride ourselves on working closely with retailers and have a continuation of the signed agreement system we used so successfully before,” said Stone. “All major retailers are supplying written agreements that they will honor the street date no matter what, making it a level playing field across the board. We all want the game to be a huge success, and for everyone to benefit from this release."

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