Mainly because the development of the Germanic languages was somehow more independent itself, the different dialects of Proto- Germanic, that joint the three subdivisions inside Germanic family, separated in a very early period of time, evolving in different geographical areas considerably separated from each other that somehow it gave them more freedom of developing independently allowing to shape them different features and innovations, besides all the ancient Proto- Germanic dialects had no written evidences or they hardly had ( taking as base some runic inscriptions), when a language or dialect is basically spoken and not written as a general rule is more susceptible to change faster than a language with a long attestation of written evidences.
Latin is a language quite documented itself, but Romance languages don't descend themselves from this type of Latin that it's classic Latin that was somehow the cult version of the language that they originally spoke the ruling elites of the Roman Empire.
All Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin that was the form of Latin spoken by ordinary peoples that lived in the provinces that were part of Roman Empire that continued being spoken after the defunction of the empire ( the term “vulgar” meant back then something related to ordinary people and it didn't have pejorative connotations that the term has nowadays). Vulgar Latin unlike Latin classic is not widely documented and it's not precise to know with accuracy on what exact period of time, it turned into the earlier forms of Romance languages spoken nowadays, even it's spoken and discussed that Romance languages could descend from a hypothetical Proto- language called Proto- Romance ( the same way Germanic languages are believed to descend from Proto- Germanic).
The separation around the different dialectal varieties of Vulgar Latin produced much later with a gap of many centuries in comparison to the division of different branches of Proto- Germanic that produced on much earlier period of time. In fact many Romance languages have texts from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, some of them from the 9th centuries, some Germanic languages are attested since the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries, Gothic is the earliest attested Germanic language with texts dated on the 4th century. On centuries where they clearly attested the earliest forms of some Germanic languages spoken nowadays, Vulgar Latin was still spoken in the areas that in the past they were Roman provinces.
In conclusion the division around Germanic languages was much earlier than the Romance languages that stayed more united for many centuries through Latin that started to diverge much later taking as a key event the downfall of Roman Empire.
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