Tricky finding some games at retail

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So awhile back if you remember Square had put out notice of a sorta but not secret of mana adventure style game The Adventures of Elliott and maybe a month ago it finally arrived. I'm using this as an example because I refuse to preorder on games, and I like to buy them usually in person, at worst if buying new online from like amazon or best buy or whatever. I tried finding it at all the big box and mid-box stores in this area (a million + population area) and not one store has it. Gamestop I tried even, they got it, but I was told by 2 different managers they only got 1-3 games in because corporate despite having copies only would mail to fill pre-orders, and they've still weeks on yet to send in more copies for the shelf.

Are there a number of games this is like happening? I got to wonder if this is a thing for the disc systems too. What other games are having this happen as well? Call it stubborn, but at some rate I'm either just never going to buy it, or out of spite buy a second hand copy because if they're going to create hurdles to pay for their product, they don't want to get paid that much it seems.

I know this is a thing at times with online too. Some clowns play up a product and suddenly it goes from there to ghosted and 2-3x the price on ebay, MIO for NS2 is temporarily suffering this while MIO on NS1 whatever, find it at value wherever, whenever.
 
It took me forever to get a physical copy of Pragmata PS5 because it was out of stock everywhere shortly after launch. This has happened a few times now over the last year whereas I never had that problem in the past.

Now we know Sony's plan I think it was probably deliberate to have such small print runs.

As for Elliott, it's widely available here but being a key card I have no interest.
 
I see it in stock at all my local Best Buy's.

The last time I went to the electronics section at the local Walmart, there was a healthy selection of Switch 1 and smaller selection of Switch 2 titles, a smaller section of PS5, and literally not one Xbox title at all. That was quite the shock for me as the PlayStation section used to be two sides of a full aisle. That said, The Adventures of Elliot is not available at our Walmart. Far less people buy physical, and if people who do stop buying them at retail because they are harder to find than in the past, the move away from physical will happen even faster, even on Switch 2. I'd buy direct from SE, Amazon or Nintendo if I wanted it physically as I really don't get the difference between that and buying it in person as I got over that back in the late 90s.
 

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