Looking at the past Directs dates, only in 2013 Nintendo did a Direct on January. In both 2012 and 2014 the first one was in February.

Does NoA  translate into French?

German, Italian, Portugese, Dutch, Russian?

Pretty certain they translate into more obscure European languages too, like Greek, Polish and the Baltic languages.

lol, i meant next year XD

Maybe I'm getting into semantics but localisation here in Europe I think is what is called multi5(english, spanish, french, german, italian) and I'm pretty sure America uses multi3.

Games are translated (text) for other countries, and I know that some even dub them. I would think that NoE concentrates on the multi5 and don't do these translations; but the other subsidaries such as Nintendo Scandinavia, Benelux, etc.

I couldn't find any info on their localisation at all, so I'll give you benefit of the doubt. Although judging from the NoE website, there's a lot of languages that it gets translated into.

I still think localisation is a big hurdle for NoE, and their supply/production lines are probably a fair bit more complex than the 3 countries NoA has to worry about.

Still think it sucks that there's delays as a result of it, but I understand why.

I know, also tried to search without any success. These are assumptions I've made from games bought and imported, maybe they are wrong! There are other tasks that factor into a release over here such as testing or even rating, which also require additional work.