If its for France its for Europe. NOE only work Europe-wide (for fairness as otherwise most of Europe would get the games months before France, Germany, Spain and Italy do).
That said i'm bloody confused as to why it isn't on any other schedules (though not NOEs own site*) and if it does come out in France I might just make a visit to Nintendo UKs offfices...in person.
*-Its a mess (most games don't actually exist according to the site) and not to mention they contradict themselves. The UK is getting Pheonix Wright 3 in March yet everywhere else seems to be getting Apollo Justice...part of me thinks nobody knows what is coming out then just it will be a Ace Attorney game (its blatently number 3 though I think translation started on Apollo Justice before for some weird reason
).
My advice would be to e-mail NOE. Prefebly the Germans. The UK (codestorm) know nothing so don't waste your time and I would e-mail the Germans myself (since they are clearly the most competant Nintendo in Europe) but I think i've been blacklisted as every time I send them mail I get an English reply telling me to talk to codestorm (FYI, I typed the message in German).
If you don't want to e-mail wait for online retailers to put up the date. Though most are gerbage placeholders some put up the correct date wellbefore NOE announce it.
That list is not a Q2 list in any way. Its just a Q1 list. Unless you want to believe all that is coming out in Q2 is Mario Kart
To be frank I don't trust NOEs dates to be accurate at all (they just love to decide out of the blue to push games back months moments before release
). If you do you just line yourself up for disappointment (the most recent being Zak and Wiki).
As for IGNs list. IGN have offices in America and a basement in London. Its easy to see where their interests lie. Their December 2008 release date probably comes from a member who thought it would be funny (firstly NOE don't plan that far in advance and secondly its an old joke getting games a year late*)
*-Its now 3-6 months
