I could have sworn it was released 9/9/99 not in 98... am I wrong?  The article says 98...

Its first release date was in japan, which happend in 1998.
All releases on the site on the main overview page start with the initial release posted if its a good upload then that starts with usually the japanese release.
Edit: I went ahead and amended an edit to the overview page of 11/27/1998 instead of the 09/9/1999.
*doesn't have 1000 points so its in moderation*

Not entirely sure about this, i always thought that the initial release date should be the US release date just like on game pages.

"Not entirely sure about this, i always thought that the initial release date should be the US release date just like on game pages."

"Endogene said:

"Not entirely sure about this, i always thought that the initial release date should be the US release date just like on game pages."

I'm not sure. DSiWare has a release date of last year, despite not being in the US yetand you're the top editor on that page :P."

Well if its a question of specifics I believe it should be the original date, and we should be able to put multiple dates *ALA wikipedia* as well as multiple starting amounts.

Made a thread about it in the mod forum linking to this thread. Proposed the multiple date in there already, waiting for staff response.

The also know that the original Playstation's page has the JPN release date listed and not the US date. I'm pretty sure console release dates go with the first official release worldwide.

Shouldn't the console pages have a "...consists of ___ releases" page like the games do?

Just an update for anyone interested..."Release Date" on console pages will be changed to "US Release Date" in the design update. So that means we want the original US release dates on console pages, even if it came out in other countries first.

And what about systems that never came out here?

"And what about systems that never came out here?"

I'm sorry, but this thread just made me feel awesome.