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With the Metal Gear Solid 4 80GB PlayStation 3 bundle in short supply, according to Sony, more shipments will become available to retailers soon.

"Due to overwhelming demand, the product is currently unavailable. The new estimated time of arrival date for when this will be available is the beginning of July," a Sony Style representative said.

Sony has yet to release any information about stock, but promised that it is working for additional shipments.

Konami has taken a step back from its "these things happen" comment on broken street dates, criticizing Wal-Mart for selling Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots early, even warning that Sony can withhold shipments of the game's bundle.

"Walmart is in trouble for breaking street dates. They've been penalized in the past for doing so," Konami's Dani wrote.

A couple of the mega-retailer's stores have sold MGS4 80GB PS3 bundles up to a week before the title's scheduled release date of June 12, violating written agreements with Konami.

The release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots ahead of June 12 has prompted Konami to speak out about the game's broken street date.

"Unfortunately, these things happen. As much as we like see that no one breaks streets dates, no one can monitor every single moment that a title gets packed up for shipment and when its on its way to the stores," Konami's Dani wrote.

Best Buy will next week sell the Metal Gear Bluetooth Headset for $39.99, discounted from its regular price of $59.99.

According to the retailer's circular for next week, captured above by GameFAQs, the headset will go on sale Thursday, June 12, the same day Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots comes out.

"Straight from Snake's item inventory to your living room -- arm yourself with the latest in tactical espionage action technology with this Metal Gear Solid 4 licensed Bluetooth 2.0 headset from PDP," a description of the device reads.

While Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots isn't out until June 12, its street date has been broken in Europe.

A handful of copies sold quickly on eBay, and first-hand details of the title are coming in already. Member Paul-H-UK from Europe's Official PlayStation Community provided the following information from the game's manual.

"Extra content (DLC) Includes: · New Weapons · New Music Files · Camouflage Patterns · And Other extras for the main game?

With Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots due out next week, the PlayStation 3's install base and lack of TV marketing for the game may hinder sales, according to Newsweek's N'Gai Croal.

"There aren't as many PlayStation 3s in the marketplace as there are Xbox 360s. That's clearly something that's going to hold it back, but I think it will sell PlayStation 3s," N'Gai Croal, General Editor at Newsweek, said.

"I'm hearing some reports that the marketing for the game, that there may not in fact be TV marketing for it in the United States.

Following the threads at Konami.com, Konami said it saw some confusion regarding the Metal Gear Solid 4 Limited Edition PlayStation 3 bundle and "just got approval to clear some stuff up" with the following message.

"First, there seems to be some speculation as to how limited this limited edition MGS4/PS3 bundle is. I can't divulge exact stock numbers, but I can verify that quantities are in the four digits, which means less than 10k (its actually a bit less than that, even).

Once that's gone, its gone. Seriously, we don't have any more than that.