Botshots were found in a store in Japan, but haven't been reported as being available anywhere else (like online stores), so it's being theorised that it could just be a test run to see how they go. Note the two different packaging styles for each figure, and that they are in boxes, not bubbles.

Perhaps Hasbro should have done a test as well, so that we didn't end up with heaps of them pegwarming in stores... discouraging retailers from taking a chance on other Transformers lines if they are making a loss.