Why are so many games missing English translations? Well, that's what I'll be talking about in today's blog post! For those of you who don't know, there are quite a few popular Japanese videogames that were never localized at all; causing fans to create translations for them themselves. But, why does this happen? It's usually for a variety of reasons. New or unpopular games won't get very much attention, so translating them will take more time and effort than it's worth. If a company thinks a game won't do well outside of Japan, they won't translate it either. But what about the popular games from popular series that would be received well? In this case, it's usually just because a company doesn't feel like translating it. Either that, or they can't find a company to translate it for them. It's a shame to see so many Japanese games just get completely shelved and overlooked, but sometimes that happens. Personally I think one of the worst cases of this is the official Death Note video games that were never officially released outside of Japan, but I digress. These are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!