Let me ask you this. How many time have you seen a game company release a game early? Think of how many times they release one late.
The only way that would happen is to try and get it out for Christmas, but a January release date dosn't say much for thier ability to hit that.
At least your not in a country that dosn't have it yet. you can still probably get a chance to play it. I was hoping to have the GC version as choice but had to go with the PS2 version. I think I will be happy I have On-line play if I ever get Broadband.
I guess you could do what I did too. I own a GC because I bought one(then 150$) so I could import Soul Calibur 2 which cost 75$. I also had to get an import disk enabler for like 20$ plus a second memory card for 15$ or something. You would only have to spen like 200$. Asuming you could even swing that. Then you could have a whole nother system to boot.