People might not like British accents as much as American ones, but the British version of The Office was still released on DVD here and shown on cable, so I'm not sure what the point of that is? I think most well received British products have still been released in America in some format.
Secondly, I agree with the sentiment that I don't get the whole "This game has to sell 100,000 copies to justify its release." The making of the game and the localization has already been done. How much money would Nintendo be spending on release in the United States? Movies get released all the time that probably see less than 100,000 people see them in the theaters, and video games cost way more than movie tickets. If not I don't see why some smaller company couldn't just release it instead. It's not like you need advertising to release the game. I don't go around seeing advertisements for the DVD of Dogtooth everywhere, but that never stopped someone from releasing it.
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