They're selling Xenoblade at Toys R Us now here in Canada. I saw 5 or 6 copies of it last week. EB tells me they aren't getting any more though.

I don't think that's true. It's quite clear that it's selling, and either the first shipment was huge, or there's been another one. And it there's been another one, they'll be plenty of copies spare.

I wonder if sales will spike with the WiiU launch?

None of the EB games stores in my neck of the woods have it (new or used) and an EB games manager from a store in a city nearby told me that Nintendo had told him there would be no more. I can't see why they would stop selling a game that sold out but what do I know?

Gaming retailers are pretty crazy. Stocking hundreds of copies of niche games which no-one would buy, but not a copy of a game that many would buy?

I found a Rainbow Slug last night. It took an hour but I found one after sneaking past the big bird dinosaur.

In doing so I came to realize that if you save before you pick up the spheres it doesn't mean that they are there when you reload. I also found that if a sphere is there during the night and it switches to daytime, the sphere is likely to evaporate before you get to it.

I didn't notice the day-night switch one, but regarding reloading, the sphere will still be there. Collectibles are such a low loading priority though that they won't load until nearly everything else has, so you might have to wait a minute or two for them to appear.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8355866/1/

whistles nonchalantly...

Not bad, and it's nice to have some closure for the 'happy' couple. I always felt as though there should have been more defined pairings. Sharla has Reyn, Shulk had Fiora, Riki has Melia, and Dunban has...Vanea? I dunno, I've run out of ideas for him :P Sadly, the ideas aren't always built upon...

But nice writing! Good job.

If you get there just before the night/day switch and there is a sphere, when the daytime notification appears the sphere will evaporate.