I am kinda shocked to see the collector's edition there though, considering how the last time one was offered at best buy iirc was the Doom 64 one which a lot of people had come in weird/poor shape due to Best Buy packaging (mine was thankfully unharmed) and I remember on the discord at the time they noted they'd refrain from CEs at Best Buy in the future. Then again, this is a distro so it's clear methods for that are different from numbered releases.
Yeah something not hitting MOQ doesn't mean it's not gonna be made, just that when they round up to it the excess will likely be sent to other retailers or those who placed orders. I noticed things that had lower numbers on the site when it closed that finally started to ship to customers and other stores often end up in more quantity, making getting those games stress free (especially if they reprint them like they note they will with some distros). If Gunbrick hits amazon for instance I don't see that one selling out quickly at all.
Trends I generally notice that match what I've been told and seen from others, independent of what the javascript says is that Switch is still the best platform sale wise, Xbox is a very rocky gamble that hasn't done too hot outside of TMNT/RCG2 (still lower than other platforms in general) and PS4 is lower than ever as more move to PS5 stuff. (which is also why Special Reserve dropped SKUs for PS4 and moved to PS5, a shame since I love my PS4 slim and plan to stick by it, but for niche physicals like these I can see why some just prefer to move on) Kbob wanted to know what was up, so this should give a rough idea even if we obviously won't know the exact # to a T
(though considering someone who follows me is running a daily script check akin to what sonicyogurt here did for the production update page before it broke, I can say that for pretty much every open preorder they've tracked there isn't any number manipulation going on at all, as nothing spikes downward or shoots upward in any weird way. Just imagine a smooth typical incline as more people save money to afford what they want, which also matches how I used to save and buy LRG stuff, usually nabbing an open preorder on the last day)
I personally think if LRG cut back on the distro stuff and stopped overflowing that side of things and focus on more excitable titles like Silvergun and whatever Carbon Engine provides, they'll end up exciting people more rather than having stuff underperform, especially if they fix QC flaws. CEs in general I don't think do much to excite folk due to the extreme waits on them and even on social media and in my friend circles most folks are shifting to the standard edition to wait less.
