The future just got a little bit less exciting. Speaking with Kotaku, Nintendo Australia's Rose Lappin confirmed there are no plans - at this stage - for an Australian release of ExciteBots, the crazy sequel to Excite Truck.
Much like the limited release of Punch-Out!!, it apparently comes down to a lack of interest, and in this case, the fact that the game also did pretty terrible numbers in America (not even a Wii Wheel bundle managed to save it).
"I know there’s a group of people who want it, but at our minimum [stock order] it’s probably too much for us to carry. I know in the US there’s a lot of that stock around,” she explains. "We’ve got to make that evaluation. We’ve got to try and support our consumers where possible, but unless we can sell the minimum we need to bring in, that makes it very difficult."
Of course, there's another factor coming into play, that ExciteBots doesn't even exist in the PAL format (no European release). Nintendo Australia managed to release Animal Crossing on the GameCube a year before other PAL regions, so maybe, just maybe, if enough noise is made, they could do the same for ExciteBots. Haha, who am I kidding?
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