There was no chance of SMG being sold out in Japan DMeisterJ. We knew retail orders were 700K. Have you even read the topic? There is a large quantity of evidence to support that it sold out, and anecdotal evidence to support that it's still sold out. There is a chance this is a Nintendo production issue. They had issues with many big DS games last year. However, they also shouldn't have gotten more than 70K first week retail orders when it's been a full year since first week sales have been anywhere near that, and that includes big games like Metroid Prime 3.
This isn't an excuse. It's simply logic. Logic only looks like an excuse to those looking for a reason to attack. People need to just calm down and step back and look at facts, rather than lash out.
