I must agree I'm rather pissed off at how late we get Nintendo games here in Europe. I was looking forward to Elebits and Trauma Center around launch, but they got bumped all the way to April and July. I went "Oh well, Super Paper Mario looks pretty cool..." but it doesn't even have a date set yet. -_-
Game specific friend codes suck also, as does region locking. It's ok to copy from the best, really, just do it already. >_