User blog comment:Magma-Man/Bioshock Infinite's Release Date Announced!/@comment-4095569-20120302183009/@comment-2250991-20120302221552

They never said it was early or later in 2012, but just 2012. For the most part, stores and game sites make speculations on what the release date was for a while. Now that there is an official date, these stores and sites can now say it without needing to pull a date out of their butts.