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

[MrT-Tar]

z101 said:

IamAwsome said:

       Is is just me, or do North Americans/Europeans/Aussies ALWAYS get the short end of the stick when it comes to localizations. In most cases, Nintendo will only localize the big franchise sequels and Wii ______. There have been a few games that made it through the cracks (Disaster, ExciteBots, Sin and Punishment 2) but the majority of non-big franchise sequels stay stuck in Japan. No Xenoblade, no The Last Story, no Fatal Frame IV, WHY NINTENDO!?

I am sure that Xenoblade and The Last Story will come to the West.

Fatal Frame 4 has not been localised because of the many bugs this game has, why Nintendo don't hustle the developers to fix this? I don't know.

I forgot to say this earlier, but it could be that Fatal Frame 4's lack of localisation isn't entirely to blame for Nintendo.  If I remember there was a French ad commissioned (and accidently used) by NoE, somewhat suggesting that Nintendo had plans to localise Fatal Frame IV at least for Europe.  Maybe it had something to do with Tecmo as they own the IP, but then again I don't see why they would.  It's all confusing