Buzzati said:
This is far too much work on the consumer's part. Fuck them if doing all this is what's needed to get their attention.
If they do release these games in the US after all, the real problem is Nintendo's super secretive, customer unfriendly public relations style.
They refuse to talk about any plans. They'll outright lie and deny they're doing something the day before they do it. They leave customers hanging, believing that a given platform has been totally abandoned. When they do make statements they're usually vague and full of weasel terms.
They seem to be determined to utterly control the mindscape of their market, but in a much more clumsy and crude way than say, a company like Apple. Perhaps it can be pinned on being "very Japanese" but even by Japanese standards, Nintendo seems like a black cube that absorbs all radiation with ne're a single photon spilt.
They seem 100% oblivious to the concept of starving a userbase and driving them to not care in the rare instance they actually release something.