Namco has confirmed that Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wille zur Macht will ship to Japanese retail stores on February 28th.The standard version will retail for 7,800yen (62.14USD), while fans will have to spend 12,800yen (101.97USD) on the limited Deluxe Edition. No US release date has been announced yet, but Xenosaga is expected to arrive in North America sometime in late 2002.
Namco expects to sell around 600,000 copies of Monolith's highly-anticipated prequel to Square's classic PlayStation RPG Xenogears.
