Helios on 15 December 2007
And it's the largest market for the DS and Sony in general. Second largest for Wii and the 360 - and Microsoft doesn't screw us over. No excuse for Nintendo and Sony to do it, in other words.
Moreover, none of those things have anything to do with programming and development, which you said. It's an issue with localization, which *should* be done *simultaneously* with the American localization.
As for small Japanese developers, well, we aren't talking about them, are we? Not that the big Japanese publishers don't handle those things anyway...
