SSBB UK date a mistake, says Nintendo

[LONDON CALLING] Yesterday, the internet was awash with fevered speculation after a date for Super Smash Bros. Brawl appeared on the official Nintendo UK Web site.

The listing originally gave the game a release date in the UK of June 1, 2008, but has since been changed to simply "2008." SSBB, which was released in Japan today and is due in the US on March 9, wasn't given a European release window in Nintendo's latest schedule.

When GameSpot called the Nintendo press office, they told us that the date was, alas, an error. A spokesperson said, "It appears to be the standard placeholder as it always falls to the middle of the year; June 1 is the central date. Also, we never release games on a Sunday."

Nintendo reiterated that the highly anticipated SSBB doesn't have a date for Europe yet.