I really don't get this. I don't want to call anyone a liar, but they're in stock at most places online and have been throughout February. Every other shortage we've seen (every console launch, Wii, DS last year, PS2 a few years back, etc.) has been a situation where you're much more likely to grab one in an actual retail store than online. Thinking back to last January's DS shortages, they were readily available at retail stores about two weeks before they started staying in stock online.
This is the complete opposite though if there really are places that are out of stock(local stores here have been fully stocked for about a month). They're everywhere online, but apparently not in some retail stores. That just doesn't add up. There's either some kind of odd distribution issue (which doesn't make much sense since the national chains control their own distribution), or people are just milking the early January shortages to an absurd degree as some kind of excuse.







