Got this on Eurogamer.

Sony has told us that SOCOM: Confrontation will not be out this Friday in Europe, as some retailers are still suggesting.

Instead, a spokesperson told us the online tactical PS3 shooter will arrive in "early 2009". No reason was given for the delay.

SOCOM: Confrontation has been out in America - where little mice go to make their fortunes - for a while.

So you can always buy from the US PlayStation Store by faking your address and purchasing pre-paid PSN cards from eBay. Or so we've heard.

However, the UK retail version will come bundled with a Bluetooth headset, which is quite important for this sort of squad-based stuff, apparently.

Plus, there are also suggestions that the US version may be clogged with a few bugs; something that might be fixed in the transition to Europe.

Link here.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=320154

I somehow hate SCEE even more than I did before.

Better than launching with huge problems.

Killzone 2 will destroy it sales.

i was gonna get this, the online probs are patched now..........dunno why the delay, but if it comes out in jan, il deffo buy it, then onto killzone 2

selling nearly 300k in NA alone is impressive for an online only title which is also available on the PSN..

early 2009 will be huge for PS3 ^^

I would have to agree with you on that.

After all it is not a huge delay really.