This is absolutely pathetic. How is Google, of all companies, not able to handle load? And how did they manage to fail so fantastically not once, but twice, on the same product ?
This has happened repeatedly with Google in the past- I think it was a Nexus phone back then, too. I've come to the very simple conclusion that they just don't care all that much about how the store performs under huge load. The phones will get sold one way or the other, and the real goal isn't to make money as a phone seller but to drive forward the state of mobile phones.