I read this article a while ago and remember finding out that Kuru Kuru Kuriin was never launched in the US, I always assumed it had.
I feel like the article occasionally sounds like whining when it comes to some releases where Europe got it first by a trivial time span, games like Pokemon B/W and the 3DS. I personally don't really care too much about delay unless they extend into several months and years. Brawl is a good example (US got it 09/03/08, Europe - 27/06/08) and that was only bad due to the very high profile nature of the game and the fact that everybody when on and on about the game on forums in that 3 months.
Those kind of delays can also be justified IMO, such with the example of Pokemon D/P (US - 22/04/07, Europe - 27/07/07). The European release was just as the U.K state school summer holidays were starting, a wise and almost certainly deliberate move, given Pokemon's popularity with school aged gamers.
Being British, I'm loving what NoE are doing at the moment and applaud them for doing so. What I would personally like to see them do though it to strike a deal with Atlus, where all games published by Atlus on Nintendo platforms in the US will see European launches by NoE. That would be a dream come true for me.
My advice to Americans wishing to play games not localised on the Wii is to mod or import. Last year, I imported a n NTSC PSX along with 10 games which never saw light in Europe. (Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Dragon Quest/Warrior VII, Valkyrie Profile, Tactics Ogre, Tales of Destiny, Tales of Eternia/Destiny II and Arc the Lad I - III), I've never regretted it even for one second and I'm now planning in the future to import an NTSC SNES just for Earthbound.
