Look at this crazy shit!! It's pretty appalling how many interesting games haven't been brought to the US. Even Europe has games to lord over us these days!! WTF!!
People always claim that Nintendo has no new IPs, but they've been CRANKING them out, especially in the portable arena. We just haven't gotten to play half of them! Band Brothers, Kururin Paradise, Chousoujuu Mecha MG, Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (or whatever), Exclamation Warriors, Disaster, Card Hero, countless weird DS puzzle games, etc., etc.
We have started to get some, like Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Starfy, and Rhythm Tengoku. But the earlier games in those franchises are still ripe for the picking.
Other franchises seem to have died on the localization vine, like Mother and Trace Memory. It's really a shame. I wonder how many copies Nintendo has to sell, even as a stealth release, to break even on localizing these titles. It can't be that much.
I should just learn Japanese. I started...
But then I stopped.
In conclusion, there was an awesome thread on NeoGAF about how many games Nintendo has made every year vs. how many they localize. It seems they are making more and more, but the localization rate just keeps going down. I wish I could find that thread...
I found it!!URL to share (right click and copy)