see what you guys dont understand is this. I have a friend who is a store manager going in to the district manager position. Heres how he explained it.
"we do pre orders until march 10th or until we, as a company, run out, then the code is disabled."
He then stated
"the company knows how many we are getting. everyone who pre ordered will get one."
For example, i asked him how many pre orders he had, he said 60, but the mall store kiddy corner had 14, the store RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET had 20, two miles up had 26 and the store down the road 4 miles had 19. Not every store will have 60 or 70 like his does.
Another clue that retailers know how many their getting is walmart, they completely stopped taking pre orders for the thing online.
Yet another is kmart, they stopped pre orders for the black 3ds but not the blue.
I did some numbers, USA is getting rougly 1.75 mil - 2mil units. Divided that up by 20000 retailers and thats about 80+ systems per store MINIMUM. unless your store has 80+ pre orders, i would not worry.
I keep getting the same answer (even got a email from corp) If you preorder and go to the release, you will get one.
Also, THERE IS NO PRE ORDER PRIORITY LIST! this is confirmed by several GS in my area. if your store gets 50 systems, and you were the very first to pre order, but when the release day rolls around and your 55 in a line of pre orders, your not getting one.