"The Tales Team Simply Doesn't Have Enough Staff To Localize Every Game."

[TheKoreanGuy]

One of the comments from the source:

"The thing is, even if someone other than Namdai handles the localisation, it is the game's development team that has to handle all the coding. I presume that is what Baba is referring to; they can't dedicate enough staff for that task in order to localise all the games. We've already had past examples of games (such as Ace Attorney Investigations 2 and Grand Knights History) that weren't localised due to development staff having moved on to other projects and thus being unavailable to code in localised text.

Technically, it is possible for someone else to do that job, but having to work with someone else's code is a programmer's worst nightmare (which is one of the reasons why fan translations take so long). Either way, it's not exactly a cost effective way of doing things and localisation studios don't usually have in-house programmers anyway."

While it does suck, the Vita IS underperforming in the West. If it was doing better, then Namco wouldn't really have much of an excuse. At least we are getting the flagship titles.