Why isn't all the Professor Layton games been released in the UK?

I know three have been released in the UK. These include: The curious village, pandora's box and the lost future. I have played all of these and they are fantastic. But why isn't the spector's flute, eternal diva, or mask of miracle been released in the UK?Why isn't all the Professor Layton games been released in the UK?
Simply because the fourth and fifth games (which will not be called Spectre's Flute, a translated name, or Mask of Miracle, a working title) have yet to be translated into English

Additionally, the games are being released a year apart since it takes a long time to translate a game with so much story and puzzle text (and some puzzles need to be replaced since not all of the original Japanese puzzles would make sense in English) along with commercial reasons (such as not releasing a new game until sales of the previous game have dropped away)

It's only been five months since the third game was released in the UK

Further, the weekly puzzles for the third game haven't finished yet and the fourth game is not going to be released while these continue

It's currently expected that the English version of the fourth game will be announced around June and released in the UK around October (give or take a month)

As for the Eternal Diva movie (which takes place between the fourth and fifth games), this was released in the UK in 2010 (but has yet to be released in the US) and can be purchased from stores such as Amazon UK or watched on YouTube

On a side note, there's a common misconception that the Eternal Diva movie is part of the prequel trilogy, but the prequel trilogy consists of three games (the last game of which will not be released in Japan until late 2011 or early 2012) and the movie is basically an extra

On a related note, Level 5 has announced that there may be a second movie (that takes place between the second and third games of the prequel trilogy) and possibly a thirdWhy isn't all the Professor Layton games been released in the UK?
Yeah, same here in the States., albeit, you guys did get the movie (Eternal Diva) released in your country. As for us Americans, we simply have to resort to watching it on YouTube.



Put simply, the games were (and are) made in Japan, ergo,the language is originally written in Japanese. Not very many people in the Western Hemisphere do not understand Japanese, so the game (in its original form) is not released, at least until it is properly translated. Note that the first game, released in 2007, wasn't released to the West until two years later. And, depending on whether or not the company is on the East side of Japan or not, they may have to halt any new development for awhile.



What my question is, if they already have it translated to English, why do we have to wait after the UK for it to be released?