Why does Nintendo pass up on localizing so many great games?

[Mr Khan]

IamAwsome said:

Mr Khan said:

Zlejedi said:

If you can't make 50% profit margin on it Nintendo is not interested.

Explain Fire Emblem, and Sin and Punishment 2 for that matter.

Most of the games have a good reason, and the jury is still out on Xenoblade and Last Story. Fatal Frame IV had game-breaking bugs that Tecmo refused to own up to, Captain Rainbow was... Captain Rainbow. Excitebots wasn't a case of "made it through the cracks" Excitebots never made it TO Japan or the EU, and was USA-only. Disaster was fairly bad as far as it was

The only one i'm at a loss to explain is Reginliev.

The only logical reason I could think of for Zangeki no Reginleiv was the fact that the game was EXTREMELY niche, and seemed low budget.

Also  I think that Zlejedi has a point with the "If you can's ake a profit on it, Nintendo won't localize it" in the case of games like Zangeki and other stuff like Chibi Robo and a bunch of niche DS gams.

It is also worth noting that stuff like S&P2 and Fire Emblem have fanbases, so Nintendo knows they are getting at least a little profit, so that may be their reason for bringing those games over.

Well if they're not making a profit on it, there's no reason to be making anything at all. Zlejedi's point was if they couldn't make a lot of profit they wouldn't bother, which their support for Fire Emblem (aside from Fire Emblem 12, strangely), disproves.