Just interesting comments from Svensson on the Capcom forums regarding Z&W.
http://www.capcom.com/BBS/showthread.php?t=21585
Our guys in Japan had a HUGE marketing push for this title. It's only just come on the market there too so I'm not so sure how you're passing judgements so quickly.
As for us, let me make a few things clear:
We can't force a retail buyer to take it (though we got it on the shelf in pretty much every major retailer).
We can't make a retail buyer expedite freight so it's on shelf the day after shipment everywhere like Gamestop typically does (which is why Wal-mart and Best Buy only started getting it on shelf on Thursday/Friday).
So for those of you who only shop at Gamestop, either pre-order or look elsewhere to find copies. There were very few pre-orders at Gamestop on Z&W (especially relative to what we're seeing on the first couple of days sales). If you want to see more units on the shelf day one in that particular retailer, then pre-order. Gamestop bases their day one number as some multiple of its preorders. Period.
A number of retailers we pushed to take more units than they did but they have their own thoughts about the game and the market and make their shelf allocations accordingly. Our day one number was a decent number by any measure, owing a lot to the reviews and PR work that we've done. We are not out of stock anywhere except for possible spot out of stocks at Gamestop (probably rectified already as they took their backup order after the first day of sales).
This explains some of the issues reported here about it not available at major retailers on launch day, only gamestop does expedite freight for most games while I'm guessing the other retailers do fast prolly only for big titles.
Also sounds like they tried to make a major push for other retailers to do a large stock of it but its not completely in their control.
Overall, it sounds fairly positive, they said their first day sales were decent and that gamestop already took their backup order once they found out that the game sold.
