Excitebots Sells, Uh, 13,000 Copies

[wraggster]

Excitebots is a sequel (of sorts) to Excite Truck, itself a sequel (of sorts) to Excitebike. It was published by Nintendo, on the dominant Nintendo platform. And it had SUPER SANDWICHES. So what happened?

It could be that it was rubbish, but then, Mike thought it was OK. It could be that it looked boring, but remember, it had SUPER SANDWICHES.

Who knows. All we do know is that the game sold 13,000 copies in the US in April. Sure, it was only out for 10 days in the month, but still. 13,000? Dismal. It didn't even make NPD's top 100 games for the month, let alone the top 20.

Poor Monster Games. Maybe they should have called it ExciteFit.

http://kotaku.com/5255753/excitebots...h-13000-copies

[VampDude]

13,000 isn't much, considering the Wii software sales in the U.S. was 941,980 for May 2nd.

Wii Sports was number one that week with over 100,00 sales, which there are no suprises there.

This game will pick up (even though I wouldn't buy/play it), the market is going through a slow patch at the moment.

[kurtless]

Well, I saw videos of it and it looked like Excite truck but with some new stages and more ways of doing tricks. I'd like it if they did something different next time.