I am very very surprised the game did not appear to chart in Europe.
That means -- according to VGChartz -- that it sold less than 7300 units.
Since the audio would have to be redone (I have read somewhere -- and I can't remember where so there is no link -- that too much curse words to get anything but an M rating in the current English track), localization would mean some cost. And if the game is not going to sell, NOA will not do it.
There is a market for core games on the Wii. While there were some good comments on the Gonintendo Board (linked to by trestres) -- all of the games that someone said were not on NOA's release schedule are third-party games that will be released in the first six months of 2009 in NA/US. Many of them will be by Sega, which is slowly becoming the core publisher of choice on the Wii.
I just think after NOA's experience with Giest, it is very gun-shy about M-rated IPs.
Mike from Morgantown
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