From Holland here..

They shipped the European PAL version to all game stores two days ago, so I went by my local game shop and this guy told me he wasn't officially allowed to sell the copy yet. ( so he DID have it then ! )

Anyways, I told this guy, man I have been waiting for months!! fortunately he must have been a FF gamer himself as he understood the pain.

So two days since I have my copy of FF XII and I am loving it, nothing beats playing a FF game for the very first time, it's awesome, how can you expect otherwise from Square, yet again another masterpiece.

Love the new changes, anyways, good luck with getting a copy, you should just ask as they should already have a copy, but since the official release is today or tomorrow it doesn't really matter much I guess.