Price protection.. Games are cheaper in the US then in Europe.. Cant have us europeans import cheaper games which would crash the market in Europe.. 

Legal stuff.. Licenses for certain properties are not worldwide.. An IP like transformers is owned by Hasbro and Takara.. So different people would earn money of it in different places in the world.. Same goes with music rights.. Likewise with regional ratings.. What is acceptable in some countries could be not acceptable in other countries leaving the companies wide open for lawsuits..

Productions costs.. It cheaper to make an english or japanese version and later on make an European version with french, german, spanish and italian added latter on.. Thus by making the other version not available the translated game wouldn't lose sales cause people imported it.. (text writing/ voiceovers are much cheaper when one version is completly finished) by staggered launching a product you can get some of the costs back before launching in an other region..

It is a benefit for japanes games

MS fans wont miss out on much though because X1 probably wont receive as much support from japanese devs like the 360 did

expected

huh, could of swore i read otherwise. maybe it was the ps4? i swear it was for the xbone but okay.

personally don't care.  i've never imported.

You mean dubbed, right? I know that everything in Germany is dubbed, and that must suck. At least the DVDs and BluRays I purchased in Germany and Austria all have the original language track included, along with English subtitles. I noticed that some didn't, though they were usually of lesser quality.

Excepted