lucablight said:
Alot of the RPGs listed in those threads aren't even out in the west and may never be released.
The unreleased RPGs listed there: Final Fantasy Gaiden (likely to be released next year), 7th Dragon (likely to be released next year), Blue Dragon (scheduled for release next year), Dragon Quest VI (confirmed for localization), Dragon Quest IX (likely to be released next year), Fantasy Life (may not be localized), Golden Sun (confirmed for localization), Inazuma Eleven (getting an English localization next year), Inazuma Eleven 2 (wait for the first one to come out), Infinite Space (coming out in March), Ninokuni (localization prospects TBD), Pokemon HG/SS (coming out in March), London Life (unless it's cut from the game, it'll be localized when NoA/NoE gets to the 4th Layton), SaGa 2 (localization prospects TBD), Sands of Destruction (comes out in 2 weeks), Shin Megami Tensei (comes out in March), Sigma Harmonics (not being localized), Soma Bringer (not being localized), and the Tales games (not being localized).
So you're right that a lot have not been localized yet, but you're not right that a lot may never be. Only a few won't be. The vast majority of the rest will be out in 2010... which is kind of contrary to the point that the DS is quickly dying off. Its 2010 RPG release calendar is stacked. As long as Japanese developers continue to make lots of RPGs for the DS each year, it will be in a perpetual state of having lots of unlocalized RPGs, but that's just a healthy side effect of
continuing to exist.