Rumor: Chibi-Robo unplugged?

A NeoGAFfer called TurtleSnatcher got a call from his local GameStop asking him to transfer his Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol preorder payment to another game, because, according to "corporate," the US release had been cancelled. Terrible news if true, but a GAF post about a call from GameStop is about as far from a reliable source as one can get without just making up the news, and not too far away, in terms of concreteness, from making up the language used to report that made-up news.

Siliconera contacted Golin Harris (who does Nintendo's PR) for confirmation of this rumor. They hadn't received any word of a cancellation. However, as Siliconera reports, "the game is missing from Nintendo.com, Gamestop and Best Buy's database. Also Gamefly changed the release date for Chibi Robo: Park Patrol to TBD instead of September 24."

We doubt the game is being cancelled, since Nintendo released promotional materials during E3 just a few weeks ago. And why would Nintendo cancel a first-party DS game? That's just throwing money away.