Believe me, the special edition wasn't handled any better here in the U.S.
I'm just grateful that I was able to get in a preorder at all.
Some GameStop preorders got cancelled, and a good chunk of people bought up like 5-10 special editions just to scalp them on eBay.
"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."