Quote Originally Posted by Daria View Post
My point was so many people were alarmed by the prospects of the flagship series moving to handheld, that the Wii announcement reads more as fanning the flames than anything else.

Not to mention with so many different developers actually producing these games (arte piazza, level 5 I know have worked on the series to date) and taking into consideration the amount of time it takes to actually finish a game it's not surprising to hear *something*. While IX is slated for next year, who knows what stage of production X is in.

As you said, we all knew X was coming. It's not like they're hyping it with screens and info before IX is out the door. They're just cluing us in to the system we can expect it on. I don't think that's premature.
I understood your point, and don't think there's any real way to measure how alarmed the public might be.

More than that, it's not like the only major series with multiple developers. Anyway, I got your point, hope you got mine.