http://gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=6899

^ So says this article, anyway. Especially enticing is the plural on that. Considering how much I loved case 5 on the first, the possibilty of twins or better in the sequel has me doing a Homer-like gurgling noise.

First, the interview in question: http://www.cubed3.com/news/5973/1/Capcom

The PW community is in a monsterous tizzy over this.  Some believe this is the reason for the gap between Japanese release and domestic, while others believe it's a possible case of misinterpretation.

Myself?  I'm being cautiously skeptical about this. Things aren't quite adding up; how are they going to announce new cases so suddenly like this? And how is it that they're going to be western-released specific? Matsukawa herself stated just a month or two ago that there wouldn't be any added content - and I'm sure that if they took the time to develop and implement something so significant as new cases, then surely they'd have gone into the Japanese release as well; it would be a crucial selling point, and something they definitely would've publicized a lot earlier on.

"Brand new episodes" to me sounds like a spiel to someone who's never played Gyakuten Saiban 2 before.   As for the "We wanted the Western players to play a new game rather than an old port," I reckon she was referring to the updated features of the DS port, such as touch screen, refined graphics and music.

Not that I'd be adverse to new cases, of course - not in the least. But you can color me surprised if it does turn out to be true.  Either way, I'm still picking up both Japanese and domestic releases; and if the domestic release does have new cases, that's all the more reason to double dip. ;)

The Cubed interview was just updated to say that there aren't any extra cases, it's just a straight port.

I wonder why the three month or so gap though. I'm definitely gonna be importing this one. If Capcom USA really wanted my money they would've done a simultaenous release.

The gap is to prevent PW from getting lost in the shuffle of all the holiday games (two Pokemon games, FF3, Yoshi's Island 2, Castlevania, etc).  Q1 gives it more room to breathe.  Whether Capcom is right to be cautious considering the series' rapidly expanding American fanbase is debatable, but I'd wager that this is its logic behind the gap.

True.

When PW came out initially, it was savaged in the Christmas rush and was outsold during the holidays by Trauma Center (which, not to take anything away from the game itself, probably got a good headstart by the realization that there were naked, if nipple-less, boobs within). So Capcom announced there would be no second printing beyond the first 10,000 copies. Shortly before all North American copies were exhausted in early 2006, eBay scalpers and Japanese import shops went to work.
Seeing such demand for the game, Capcom USA was encouraged into a second printing of the game (this time with a positive blurb in Entertainment Weekly), followed by a third this past August, albeit with a $5 mark-up. So, while Internet buzz failed Snakes On A Plane, it saved Phoenix Wright.

Even though the story of PW1 ended happily, once bitten twice shy. Two home console debuts, and a whole lotta quality DS competition pushed the release back to...around my birthday. A happy ending, indeed.