Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Japan): Low launch numbers may lead to delayed pre-orders

If you were hoping to get your hands on your pre-ordered Super Smash Bros. Brawl from Japan, we have some bad news.

Importers are reporting that Nintendo’s only shipped limited amounts of the game to their territory. Details on how this affects your pre-order are in the full article.

If you’re among the guys who pre-ordered Japan’s upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii (aka Dairantou Smash Brothers X), you might be in for a long wait. Word on at least two game importers is that Nintendo is shipping out only a small fraction of the game’s copies to Japan’s retailers for this week.

Part of the news comes from New York-based retailer National Console Support (NCSX). The importer reports that Nintendo is only going to be able to ship 25 percent of the game for this week due to production shortages.

That means that retailers in Japan will only receive a fourth of whatever number of game copies they have ordered. On the lighter side, NCSX further updated their site to state that they received more shipments than expected. If you don’t receive your pre-orders this week, you should be able to get them by next week.

Similar shortages were reported at Play-Asia, which has recently received its first shipment. The site stated that they would only be able to fulfill 15 percent of all their current SSBB pre-orders due to Nintendo’s game copy shortage. Play-Asia further announced that due to the expected shopping rush for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration, they may only be able to fulfill fill all their game pre-orders by the second half of February (at the earliest).

Via Play-Asia