Okay, sorry about the "blah blah blah" statement.  I wasn't trying to act assanine or "pissy" but if you read this thread and then read the threads around the time Mario didn't do as expected in JP, these argument are the same exact arguments we've already heard... I'm starting to thin that these arguments were copy and pasted.  I saw the first page but the same posts were being said again in the second and third page so I reiterated.  Just wanted to clarify.

There was no chance of SMG being sold out in Japan DMeisterJ. We knew retail orders were 700K. Have you even read the topic? There is a large quantity of evidence to support that it sold out, and anecdotal evidence to support that it's still sold out. There is a chance this is a Nintendo production issue. They had issues with many big DS games last year. However, they also shouldn't have gotten more than 70K first week retail orders when it's been a full year since first week sales have been anywhere near that, and that includes big games like Metroid Prime 3.

This isn't an excuse.  It's simply logic.  Logic only looks like an excuse to those looking for a reason to attack.  People need to just calm down and step back and look at facts, rather than lash out. 

No matter what you or other people in this thread say, the game IS sold out in many places in Europe. Not in all the stores, but in some stores at least. As was said a thousand times, retailers order games, they don't get a magical unknown quantity from Nintendo.

"I'm sure the whole of the UK only ordered 70k units"

Sarcasm doesn't prove anything.

@ naznatips

Cance this, issue that, maybe this, one year since that, etc. Okay so you're still trying to make excuses for what the game has sold. I'm not going to revisit this post for another week so that when next week, when it sells less, I can be absolutely right. If I'm wrong, then I'll handle that but I won't make excuses about why I was wrong. I believed hands-down that the PS3 would be winning as soon as it came out but I was wrong. So what! I got over it, didn't excuse Sony's piss-poor behavior and astronomical prices. So stop grasping at straws and accept that the game hasn't done what was expected. Thanks :)

This thread needs a group hug and cookies.

DMeisterJ this is a SALES forum. People are not finding excuses, they're rationally discussing things which are happening in the real world (a concept that you seem to have some difficulty grasping).

Also, no Wii game in Japan sold 700k first week so why would they order 700k units of a game that never sold that much (or close to that) in their first week? Like I said, we don't know what was ordered by Europe, and anecdotal evidence is not evidence. My kind of evidence is from sources and companies, not people who went to the store and it wasn't there.

 So who said it will sell next week more than this? And who said it that stayed and discussed with you?