There's a lot of compounding factors. The fact that there's no (legal) way to get some of those games out of Japan and into the hands of people who want to pla

There's a lot of compounding factors. The fact that there's no (legal) way to get some of those games out of Japan and into the hands of people who want to play them is a good indicator of a lack of wanting to do the work on the seller side. There's an article from Wired [1] a bit ago about the harrowing efforts of getting dancing game cabinets and the like out, and the DRM that goes into keeping them region-locked such that it's hard for gamers in the US to get to them. I went to GameWorks in Seattle at one point for a party and roughly 1/3 of the cabinets were cobranded with companies like King or PopCap, played like slot machines, and were more at home in a Vegas casino than a kids arcade. The others were a mixture of Japan imports from Sega and such that had been semi-localized (or, for a few, not even localized at all, just laid there for the Ultra Weeb gaijin and homesick Japanese exchange students) and "classics" like super hang-on and mortal kombat. Fact of the matter is that most modern arcade cabinets are just glorified consoles running a single game with a shitload of DRM on them, or windows/sometimes-linux machines running a single executable, stripped down to the bare minimum, then let sit in an arcade. If Konami can put the work into selling a game on a console, unless there's a really compelling reason to make the gameplay loop fit an arcade feel and not sell it as an "Arcade Console" game, they're not gonna put in the overhead of putting it into an arcade cabinet. Unless you've got some serious gimmick like a funny ridable controller [2] or a DJ style button set [3] then you're basically just selling a console game. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/gritty-underground-network-bringing-japan-arcades-to-us/ https://www.wired.com/story/gritty-underground-network-bring... [2] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/c0/91/0cc0912f1b8248be89fc934ae7367347.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0c/c0/91/0cc0912f1b8248be89fc... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvyHzzLZXs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvyHzzLZXs