The Nintendo Wii had the exact same problem at launch. For the first 2 years or so they were near impossible to find in a store. I remember having to buy a used

The Nintendo Wii had the exact same problem at launch. For the first 2 years or so they were near impossible to find in a store. I remember having to buy a used one for more than retail from some random dude in a parking lot, around a full year after it was released, and it was still hard to find for a long time after that.