Soundwave on 24 February 2014
Virtually every launch in Japan aside from the XBox (lol) sells out its initial shipment within the first few days. Wii U and Vita included.
People were able to walk into stores on Saturday (a day after launch) and pick up a system without a pre-order or having to line up, that's just the reality of it, that's all people were saying that the launch was not the same deal as the US/Europe.
