Imagine you’re building a house. It’s not up to code, the neighbor kids built the foundation, a mouse did your electrical wiring, and you can kinda hear some creaking when there’s a gentle breeze, but you have a house.
The only thing missing is a door in the wide open doorframe and you live in the sketchy part of town.
That’s what’s happening, except with AI servers.
Yes. Nintendo’s game development group (formerly EAD) is based in Japan with the mothership. The localization team may have input and localize it at around the same time in the development cycle, but it’s written in Japanese first.
How the NOA/NOE teams decide to localize it is largely up to them, though I suspect there’s at least a little oversight from headquarters.
Plastic alternatives are in development and in various stages of manufacture. That’s a solved problem.
The other oil could/should be recyclable, which is a lot better than burning it, never to be used again like in an engine.