Harvest Moon: A New Beginning 15th Anniversary Edition announced, Exclusively from Natsume's online store Options

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Comes with a 12 inch cow. Not totally sure if you get the yak from the regular edition as well, but it doesn't look like it. Still. s'a big cow.

http://www.natsume.com/store/index.html

[Mizukithepanda]

I don't think they expected this either, seeing as the preorder period was supposed to be open until the 23rd.

Is this... a first? In all the years that I've been buying and playing Harvest Moon, Natsume's never released a game early. They've either struggled to release it on time or pushed the date back by weeks/months...

And HMR, it ships out on the 19th. The earliest anyone'll have it is the 20th. I have a feeling that goes for stores as well, since they generally need to have the games in stock the night before to offer them the next day. That said, much like Darth, I'm wondering if they're even shipping out to stores yet. It's entirely possible that this change was so last minute that the stores won't get them for a few days yet.