No More Hereos 2 not coming until 2010

Even though it was teased at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, the collaboration between Marvelous Entertainment and Grasshopper Manufacture will not hit North American shores until early 2010.

No More Hereos 2 was only shown in a very brief trailer and pretty much the only info on it is that the series will remain on the Wii and it will have the subtitle: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. The news of the late release comes from a Japanese PDF document released by Marvelous Entertainment and picked up by Siliconera.

Siliconera reports the sequel will come to North America sometime in January 2010 and will be released later in Europe, around February or March 2010, and will receive two versions: mild (less violent) and standard (normal violence). What’s even more interesting is that Siliconera points out the lack of a Japanese release date or time frame.

The first game, No More Heroes, was received poorly in Japan only selling around 10,000 copies on it’s first day of release. While this doesn’t mean Japan won’t see a release (it’s Japan after all), it makes you wonder how much the importance of launching territories has shifted places. A running theme at this year’s TGS was how Japanese game development was falling behind Western development with many significant Japanese industry players admitting to the problem.

We’ll share the info on No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle as it is released.

Read [Siliconera] Via [1UP]