I prepaid for both SSBB and SMG back in September in full at a local Gamestop. However, I was quite disappointed when SMG came in because the shipment did not arrive until 3 days after its launch date. In addition, upon picking up SMG the sales clerk refused to give me the commemorative coin promised upon preordering SMG. The oddest part about the release of SMG is that no store locally had SMG in stock until 3 days after its release. I hope that when SSBB comes out there will be no delays or trouble upon pickup of SSBB. Does anyone here know if Gamestop will stock with SSBB at least several days before its release, or will it not ship until day of its release? BTW, when will nintendo advertise more for SSBB? I remember that both smash bros and melee had tv commercials before their release. Yet for brawl the only form of advertisement that I have saw so far is just a website, an E3 video, and E for all videos. At least with Halo 3 I saw TV commercials, push products, websites, videos on the net, and other various forms of advertisements. I am only saying this because brawl is suppose to be released a little over 1 month from now, and yet we have seen very little advertisement.

Preordered it from Dell Canada when they had it for $35 during their Gaming Days of Deals in November, couldn't resist at that price.

 Ok most games you wont have a hard time getting a hold of on the day it comes out, but some games stores only get what they reserve, GH3, Rock Band, Halo Limited and Halo Legendary.... Since i assume you dont get updates as to which games are in short supply and which aren't, why would not just reserve it? Why would you willing drive around from store to store just find it when you easily could have secured yourself a copy with a $5 deposit that is taken off the balance of the game when you pick it up? You dont pay anymore by reserving it..... i just dont get what point you are proving

and Yes i reserved Brawl the day Gamestop first started taking them. I work at Gamestop and at my store we had near 150 reserves sometime in mid december which is the last time i looked. Halo at my store had like 300 reserves all SKU's combined. I think Brawl will come pretty close to Halo. Only difference being about 50 halo reserves weren't picked up in the first 2 weeks. I think nearly all Brawl reserves will be picked up in the first week.

Reserved mine a while back. Glad to hear about the awesome preorder numbers. I hope this is one of those games that will catch on with the casuals. If it does, then expect it to sell like hotcakes. If not, expect it to sell like hotcakes too.

I would reserve a copy, not because I think it'll sell out on its first day, but because I usually do that with all my highly anticipated games (SMG, Halo 3, Gears, CoD4 etc).

I said "would" because no place down here has them up for pre-order yet (since PAL release date is unknown still).

Well that doesn't mean that everyone has to get it. I would love to see all that stuff too but Smash bros is not what i like, it's not a typical fighting game. It's kinda... way too fast i might say? 

@loadedstatement: IMO, casuals will NOT be buying this game, not for themselves. I consider myself casual to mildly hardcore. I'm getting this game, but not for myself. I'm getting it for my son, who is hardcore. Even with the simplified controls, I'm thinking I can't compete. A game ain't fun if you can never win. but I think there's enough hardcore that will buy this game that it won't matter if the casuals don't.


I haven't reserved because I don't trust any of the stores anymore. Thirty something people reserved a copy of SMG at toys r us in my area and the stupid store only got a few copies. What good was it for those people who tied up their money and were made to wait until toys r us did get enough of them? Not worth it. I can wait for it to be in stock if I can't get it right away, and keep the flexibility of being able to buy it the second I see one instead of waiting for some toy company to figure out what the purpose of "reserving" is.

 Yeah, I paid the $5 to reserve it.. but I had Super Mario Galaxy reserved, too and I just couldn't wait for Game Stop to open so I went to Wal*Mart and got it immediately.  I'll probably do the same with Brawl.

 Wow. Its surprising Galaxy got more reservations than Halo 3.. nonetheless, more great news for Nintendo. What city is your Toys R Us in?