will they be able to fix the hiccups already?

It's stuff like this that make sure that Western developers are ahead of Japanese developers

I wonder if the game will be complete by that time as i remember they only showed a trailer during TGS.

Perhaps they did a "we've shown early footage, we're way further in the process already..."-trick? Who am I kidding ^^

generally speaking yes, but only the technical side.

MGS4 , Final fantasy 13, and GT5 shows they still can compete.

on the artistic side Westerns are inferior by alot IMO.

im sure it will run alot better. a tad bit rushed maybe, may lead to a few patches, but it will be playable. heck maybe what they showed at tgs was something they put together way before tgs and they just didnt feel like making a new and improved demo level. /shrug it will be pushed back :p

LOL wow, this is exactly what I thought when I read the OP. Nice.

 wont this be close to the 6 month mark?

Anyways I'm more pleased with it getting a release date. This will shut up those stupid people who say sony only announces games years in advanced.

That soon?

I sure hope that TGS build of the game was from 2007 then, as the framerate in the vids I saw was...not...good.

October, November, December, January, February.  Just shy of the six month mark, but a game usually goes gold about a month before release.

And Siren, Resistance 2, and MotorStorm 2 certainly didn't shut people up, so I doubt this will.