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What I find odd is that no retailer seems to have pre-orders. Game Stop says "Unavailable" and the same on Amazon. Nintendo doesn't have it listed to pre-order on its site either.

I wonder who will carry these? I live in a small town that ironically has 2 Game Stops so I should be able to snag on on 11/11 if they are carrying it.

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Nintendo has been burned on preorders many times before, with many scalpers getting chunks of the inventory. Even some unscrupulous distributors are clearly putting inventory up on ebay for 3 times the price of retail.

I don't know why there's no pre-orders, but that may be the reason.

Isn't restricting supply standard operating procedure for Nintendo? I want to think that I read about that with the original NES and SNES in Console Wars, but I could be mistaken.

Same with the Wii when it first came out. Couldn't get one for months and finally I gave up.

And bizarrely, they don't charge a premium at launch.

Everywhere seems to have sold out their preorder allocation, you need a time machine to go back to July when it was first announced to place an order I think...

Oh wow I didn't realize that is when pre-orders were. Maybe I will get lucky at a local store on 11/11.

I don't recall it being available for pre-order when I looked. Because I had definitely planned to do that.

I called my local Game Stop and they said they will have stock. First come, first serve.

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