It's not that Nintendo is ignoring VC worldwide, they are just ignoring it outside of Japan. Japan has 482 games (they just got 4 new ones this week), North America has 312 (with the average now being 1 per week and lest month there were two straight weeks with NO releases). Nintendo used to care about it, remember when we used to get 3 VC games a week? That eventually dropped to 2 games a week, and now 1 game a week.
Where the hell is my "Skate or Die!"? PAL regions got the game back in December 2007, but we still haven't gotten it in North America.
I can accept that we will probably never get stuff like the SNES Fire Emblem games. Even if Nintendo charges the usually import price of 900 Points, they probably don't think it would be worth the money and time to translate all the text in the game. There are a lot of games that are already done.