Mind you, I know that the trampling for new products is usually reserved for either Black Friday or $50 laptops; but I sorta expected to hear about something happening in Japan when this blockbuster game came out in Japan.

The Final Fantasy XIII launch event in Japan, the show started 6:30AM at Shibuya Tsutaya. Game stores at Shibuya, Akihabara and Ikebukuro had around 350 people lining up before 7am, people started lining up as early as 9:30pm the night before.

Let’s see if things are as civil when this debuts in March of 2010 in America.