You want Cooking Navi for the Nintendo DS, right? What about the recently released Tingle RPG, Freshly Picked - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland? I hear ya. Any gamer worth his or her salt would spring at the chance to get their hands on some easy to navigate recipes or adventure with an effete elf-man in a green unitard. Sadly, Nintendo is seemingly dragging its heels in regard to bringing games like these—not to mention its language and kanji training software—out of Japan. MTV's Stephen Totilo bravely asks of Nintendo of American jefe "What's up with that?"

In this video interview, Reggie Fils-Aime gleefully teases that a number of titles are in the process of localization or evaluation, possibly including the first two games mentioned in this post.

But what about all those other successful import only games? Kanji dictionaries, Common Sense Training, Daigasso! Band Brothers, Mother—some probably will just never make the hop across the Pacific. But with Professor Layton & The Curious Village, Flash Focus and Nintendo Magic all coming to the Nintendo DS this year, it does give one hope for untested, Mario-not-playing-sports games coming to the platform.

Personally, I'll operate under the assumption the Nintendo hates America right up to the point where my Club Nintendo account is approved.

Video Exclusive: Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime (Part Two) — Does Nintendo Favor Japanese Gamers And Developers? [MTV]

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