Cooking Mama all out of ingredients?

One of the journals over at Ars Technica recently documented some trials and tribulations in attempting to find the recently-released Cooking Mama for the DS. With a desire to prepare virtual meals, Ben Kuchera stormed many of his local brick-and-mortar retail outlets to no avail. In leaving the physical world and entering one filled with electronic webs, Ben wasn't able to procure virtual satisfaction either as all the sites he checked stated the game was on backorder.

So what say you fine reader? Have you had any difficulty in snagging this at retail? Or perhaps you are the pre-ordering type?

[Thanks Nushio!]