I live in Norway, my local stop had 250 SMGs, the next day they had 238.

Crap, double post, and I managed to report it too :(

^was this yesterday, or a Galaxy's launch-

on topic- I could easily see the amount of Brawl Preorders doubling when the commercials hit the air. Those stores that have 110 now will have 200-300 come March 9th. That is, of course, if the do not stop taking preorders before then.

I've had mine pre-ordered since probably around September-ish so all I know is I'm getting a copy when it comes out.

And I do actually believe that Gamestop's are getting pre-orders near or above 100. Assuming each Gamestop will have 100 pre-orders (pretty realist since some will get more and others will get less) with 5000 Gamestops that's going to 500,000 first from Game Stop alone.

Add Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy and SSBB will easily break 750k on the first day or two and will break a million within the first week.

Pity us poor Europeans, we cant even pre-order. Knowing our luck it will be Christmas by the time it comes out.

 I'd say it's more likely that the problem is retailers underordering. Many retailers use preorders to determine how many copies of each title to order, but that can be a misleading metric since there are likely substantial differences in the demographics of gamers who habitually preorder games and those who rarely or never preorder games. Nintendo tends to sell to a fairly demographically broad audience, while I'm fairly certain that the habitual preorderers are a relatively narrow demographic.

That is assuming that there are no preorders between now and March 9th... I could easily see this number double as the hype builds in NA.....

it is not surprising for a midnight launch - I mean, it prob the biggest game of this year. SBBB is prob gonna sellout the first day and possibly for the first time for any game, u can't walk into the store on launch day and buy a copy

 omfg, can you imagine if each special edition had a 6" figurine of one of the characters...wonder how many copies of the game they could sell to a single person who wanted every figurine =P

Yikes. 

 Yeah, same here, like the $60 dollar edition would come with some concept art, a disc with Sakurai telling the making of the game process or something, then for the $120 dollar Legendary Edition would be a Mario cap and a huge hammer like the one in the game.