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More bad Brawl news: There will be shortages. No more pre-orders allowed!

Gothic Girl | January 25, 2008 | News | Wii 
Yet more bad news for Super Smash Bros. Brawl fans...
It looks like Nintendo haven't made enough copies of the game to satisfy demand, and as a result are only sending a (very) small bunch of copies to each retail store in Japan. An example of this is the Lepton game store, who have 800 preorders, yet have only been sent 154 copies of the game. Ouch.

It has even gotten to the point where stores have been forced to cancel or no longer accept pre-orders for Brawl.

You would think Nintendo would be prepared for this. But apparently they only have 30,000 copies ready for the launch date, which is very low for ANY game's launch sale, let alone a game as highly anticipated as Brawl.
If a delay didn't hurt enough, reports of a shortage of copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl should have Japanese gamers clutching their chest and their reserve tickets.

Our sister site Japanator points to a couple of shortage issues that have already arisen in the island country. Japanese game retailer Lepton says that they are only getting 154 copies. We wish them luck in filling their 800+ preorders. Yikes!

J-blog Canned Dogs says that the store is going as far as to purchase copies from other outlets at full price to satisfy demand. They managed to secure an additional 100 copies of the game at 7,350 yen each, which would cause them to lose money on the 6,800 yen game. I'm sweating for them.

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  • 0 thumbs!
    Storm | January 26, 2008
    Sonuva...damnit, I'm going to run out tomorrow and try to reserve it. It's big in Japan, but just as big if not bigger in America.
  • 3 thumbs!
    Play ISDF | January 26, 2008
    Huge delays and mass shortages for Brawl, Nintendo REALLY isn't doing well. You'd think with the Wii shortages they'd have learned a lesson.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Jaw Knee | January 26, 2008
    Thank God, I have mine...
  • 0 thumbs!
    gotenks992 | January 26, 2008
    Glad the store I pre-ordered at is not a popular store.
    • 2 thumbs!
      Gothic Girl | January 26, 2008
      That might actually be a bad thing. Nintendo are sending bigger shipments to popular stores, and smaller shipments to less-popular stores.
      Some of the less popular stores might be lucky to get over 50 copies sent to them.


      This really wasn't well planned on Nintendo's behalf. The fact that they have created such a small amount of copies of the game is really quite ... pathetic!
  • 2 thumbs!
    Avalith | January 26, 2008
    This is sad for any video game company, but I never expected Nintendo to find themselves in such a position. It looks like I'll be making a quick trip to Amazon.com in about 15 minutes to try and reserve a copy of the game.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Remino52 | January 26, 2008
    Thank the lord I already pre ordered.But sucks for people who didn't because now it will almost impossible to get the game now.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Dine_Agoti | January 26, 2008
    Great. I wonder how long it'll be before people who didn't pre-order (such as myself) to get the game. You would think Nintendo knew better by now...
  • 1 thumbs!
    Blackfalcon | January 26, 2008
    30,000 copies?!?! Come on!
  • 1 thumbs!
    the new era | January 26, 2008
    This is honestly starting to get out of hand
    • 1 thumbs!
      BANDITO ATTACK | January 27, 2008
      i totally agree with this statement.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Oogity_Boogity_Boo | January 26, 2008
    This *bleep*ing sucks. I had it preordered for the December 3rd release, then when that got delayed, I shifted my preorder to a different game. I figured I'd preorder Brawl again later, but I've never had the time. I'll try and swing by Gamestop today and preorder it before it's not possible anymore.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Mattyo94 | January 26, 2008
    thank god i pre-ordered this back in december mabey theres gana be abnother delay so they can make more copies but god lets hope not!!!
  • 1 thumbs!
    Oogity_Boogity_Boo | January 26, 2008
    Well, I went to Gamestop today and preordered it. I said something about shortages and if there was a possibility about me not getting my preordered copy right away, and they said they hadn't heard anything yet and to assume I'll be getting it on time. So I'm hoping.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Bri | January 26, 2008
    For all of you who preordered in the U.S., this country is so, so much bigger than Japan, and I'm hoping Nintendo realizes this and will plan the manufacturing accordingly.
  • -1 thumbs!
    IAMJOB56 | January 27, 2008
    Lol. Nintendo is just milking you saps now. They KNOW people want this stuff, yet they can't handle demand, time for them to put some of that money into manufacturing.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Tears of Insanity | January 27, 2008
    Thank god i pre-ordered it. Sucks to be the guy that didn't. He won't get it, till like, november.
  • 0 thumbs!
    SSJ3 Trunks | January 27, 2008
    Son of a....Oh well, most likely half of the people who preordered it wont get it.
  • 0 thumbs!
    ConkerASkyJockey | January 27, 2008
    Thank god my town ins't fund on video games.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Play ISDF | January 27, 2008
      You do understand that with the fact that your town isn't big on games to any degree, it can easily equal that your town will not get a single copy for a very long time.
  • 0 thumbs!
    black doom | January 27, 2008
    I wonder what has caused these shortages...

    Well it certainly is one way to generate some extra hype. Not that Brawl really needs any but the semi causal gamer who play games because there peers do not seem to not know that much about Nintendo, making Brawl's popularity among the truly game obsessed Wii owners clear by this method throughout the world would be a stroke of genius.

    But I really hope Nintendo aren't using that evil genius kind of move.
  • 1 thumbs!
    kik36 | January 27, 2008
    Wait until it starts showing up on Ebay for $500.
  • 2 thumbs!
    neto_360 | January 27, 2008
    Only 30,000.... That is ridiculous!

    I can't believe that Nintendo, or any gaming company for that matter would have this problem. Especially with a game that is highly anticipated.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Yoshi Freak | January 27, 2008
    *Strips Out Death Note*

    Gonna Write Nintendo in it if i don't get My copy.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Sonic Flash | January 27, 2008
    I preordered mine... like a year ago?
  • 0 thumbs!
    m xdogz | January 28, 2008
    Pretty bad for the company. hopefully they make more quickly.
  • 1 thumbs!
    Team Xtreme | January 28, 2008
    20+ Million Wii's purchased at present. 30,000 copies of Brawl for launch... This would be why there is no release date for PAL territories yet...

    This will definitely be messy.
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    Supernouva | January 30, 2008
    30,000 copies may be bad for Japan, but that number certainly DOES NOT CUT IT in America. Nintendo is gonna need at least 500,000 copies ready for the North American release.

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