I don't think the treehouse quite knows the entire story. The Nopon at the end of the trailer pretty much confirmed it a sequel. 

I don't expect it to, but that would be real nice.

It may be a little overwhelming to get 160 to 320 hours of gameplay in one purchase.

I would love it. Trying to get Xenoblade in my country is insanely hard and/or expensive.

They could at least put it on eShop. I would buy for sure.

X is already available on WiiU through backwards compatibility. Would be pointless but a nice gesture regardless.

Doubtful. I would actually be disappointed if they did, it would mean that they didn't fill the full 25GB of data available for them to use. We could have an amazing uncompressed world if they use up all of it.

No, people asked for Bayonetta 1 on Wii U because it was never on a Nintendo console.

The original Xenoblade Chronicles is even playable on the Wii U.

But it would be awesome, the first one had framerate issues.

Only towards the end of the game when you had like 70 mechon on screen. 

MASSIVE XENOBLADE SPOILER

i wouldn't be surpised if the Universe of Xenoblade X is the same universe that was created at the end of the original Xenoblade set centuries afterwards but i think that will just be it not like a direction connection contuning Xenoblades plot at most there might be a few references assumsing this the same universe as the one at the end of Xenoblade

so i don't think it needed for the original to be packaged in

That's what I was thinking. Shulk did say that the world was 'limitless'