Namco Bandai announced today a precise release date for the upcoming 3DS port of the classic JRPG Tales of the Abyss in North America: February the 14th, 2012.

The game will be released in Europe three months earlier, on November the 25th. The reasons for the delay in the US are not known (and quite surprising given the recent promises of shorter localization cycles), but at least now we have a solid date and Tales of the Abyss is definitely worth the wait.