Smash bros brawl shortages in Japan.

[hsrob]

makingmusic476 said:

hsrob said:
Once bitten twice shy.

I have to agree with a couple of the other posters, 2 generations of fighting uphill and the less than stellar opening numbers of Galaxy in Japan have undoubtedly made Nintendo a little cautious. I think when Nintendo sees how many copies this game sells it will go a long way towards restoring their former bravado.

800 pre-orders yet the store is only getting ~150 copies? I'm pretty sure Nintendo knew that the game would do better than this, based on pre-orders alone.

I'd have to agree with you, but i still have a hard time believing that Nintendo is doing this out of short sightedness or poor management. Nintendo is, if nothing else, a very well run company. I wonder if there are circumstances that we aren't aware of or is it that they are just watching the bottom line too carefully and assuming that even if people don't buy it initially they will buy it in the end anyway. If the latter then that is quite poor.