Never underestimate bureaucrats' and marketers' ability to make strange reasons up  

The true reason would be insufficient manufacturing capacity and that they don't want to pump it up as this would cost much and the new plants would be underused during dead periods, so they would make something else and strange up... too much snow in Canada and Iowa, for example (OK, I was half serious, half joking! )

well i dont think they will be a 20 day difference between the realese in the US and canada

Oh, man, who cares. :p I'm European and they haven't even given us a release date yet. Probably gonna be christmas.

Only if needed, and weren't 20 day delay in Canada enough, they always have the thaw in Iowa and the question mark in Europe to widen the room for manoeuvre

If it came out March 1st here in Canada and February 10th in the US, I would probably cross the boarder and pick it up.

personally i think that they have taken this postponing thing with SSBB way too far.

first it was supposed to come out on the release date. the they postponed it to

march 30 2007. then they postponed it to November 30 2007. then they postponed it

to TBA 07. then they postponed it to December 3. then they postponed it until

February 10. and if they postpone it until march 1 then i will be furious. i have

played smash bros on the n64 for hours at a time. i have played melee up until the

point where i had every single trophy possible (i think). and i have been waiting

patiently for over a year and a half now and i don't deserve to be tortured for 1

more month. please Nintendo don't postpone it again.

If they postpone it 20 more days to include voice chat I will be okay with it.

@HeSSeH

its my birthday too so ya it would be cool to play the game on my birthday, but i would rather just have it on feb, 10th

 Outraged, huh?  It's not as if the fan base that is insane about the game is suddenly going to not purchase it, so I don't think that Nintendo really has to worry, even if it does come down to a further delay.