Adding to that is Nintendo Co. Ltd’s (NCL) influence over the company, which has been described in conversations over the years with sources familiar with Nintendo’s inner workings as frequently distant and heavy-handed.

From a consumer perspective at least, good. American divisions of Japanese companies have often been given too much leeway to make their own decisions and as a result have become a target for people with a political agenda.

Nintendo isn’t an exception to that with their Treehouse localization team, but when you compare that to the likes of Sony…

One source estimates that demand for localization writers and editors has nearly doubled – but there have reportedly been no full-time hires.

Maybe Nintendo has seen some of the “localizations” American companies put out, and don’t want to encourage the building of the kind of environment that results in that.