>>55866007The change in the way localization works in the back half of gen 4 is actually why we lost arcades. The change wasn't form multinational localizes to an international localization overnight, but the US and the EU merged into one localization starting in HGSS. And the EU had done away with arcades due to their laws by that point, so the US lost its arcades too. And that meant the international version lost arcades as we all came together. And GF had no interest in making arcades a thing if the only version that got to enjoy them was the Japanese version, so they just dropped arcades all together from the franchise.