If your anecdotal evidence is no games on shelves then it could easily be that retailers have finally figured out PSP games sell slowly, and thus they do not stock many [which means any popular games sell out]
Even if the stores near you get lots of stock it can easily be a localised issue... In Sheffield on Galaxy launch day there were dozens of copies of SMG in Gamestation at about 4pm.
The next day I went round 3 stores in Leeds [Game X2 +Gamestation] and found only a few copies.








