XD was translated the fastest, the very first English screens were released two days before the Japanese release in August 2004, and exactly two months later, XD was out in October, making it the quickest waiting time between the Japan and US release of a Pokemon game on record, of course, this is possibly because the translation team probably started the translation early

As for main series games, it takes 5-7 months, even for third versions, which usually would only take, at most, two weeks to simply copy and paste all the dialogue from the first two games, with a coming fall release, we are looking at a November/December release in US/Europe (probably after the day the world ends *shot*), but with the announcement being so recent, it’s possible that they started the translation early, meaning sometime from early September to early October, which is what I am hoping for.

Yes, I was talking about the changing names when I said localization. They don’t have to do it this time. Anyway, it’s pointless to argue as the release date won’t change.

Well, they work together, sort of…
The Japanese team constantly sends new scripts to the localisation team, who then translate them.
A big part of localisation of Pokémon is however changing the names of Pokémon and cities to more English suited ones. Because this isn’t just translating, it takes a lot of time. They already have translated the biggest part for Black/White 1, so that’s why they can do this one faster.

I’m pretty sure that’s not how things work. 😐

It could only take two months to translate. And if they work together with the Japanese team, we could have the game at the same time as the Japanese one. But they’re not doing it, it’s not their tradition.