Are Japanese devs moving away from Consoles?

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Hephaestos said:

DQ is an RPG, the DQs and FFs have all been redone for handhelds, how was IX surprising to be on the DS?

I think it's because while spin-offs and remakes are common on the DS this time they had the confidence to do it as the primary  format for a main title.