The melodramatics around here never cease to amaze me! For a start, this announcement only affects Japan, the delay has been confirmed as just one month, and all of a sudden the recent influx of stuff like the cover seem to have been all but forgotten. We have the motor shows coming up, and for all you know we could end up with final launch details very soon.
One month is not really much time to add a significant amount of stuff to a project that has been going on for the best part of 6 years, and nor is it likely due to major technical issues. There is every chance this is purely a marketing and financial move to get the game away from other big releases, and put it into the next financial year. For a game this big, they will be well into heavy-duty QA and final tweaking.
As for EU and US...it is what it is. We either get a simultaneous global release, or as ever, US get the game a bit later, and EU get it much further down the line. For me, as long as it is before Christmas this year, I really don't mind, and sleep easy as a result.
