I would like to bring up that there's an even bigger bit of news related to this article. That of Nintendo announcing they are going to focus on advertising and marketing Dragon Quest IX for its international release.
"At a Q&A session last week following the company’s financial results briefing, Nintendo exec Shinji Hatano said that it wants the Dragon Quest series to succeed in overseas territories, and that the companies believe the games should be selling much better than they are."
Speculation of a new game by Miyamoto is fun and all, but this is a major deal, seeing as Nintendo is basically telling SquareEnix to fix its practices with its second largest gaming franchise and make it popular outside of Japan. Its pretty sad that Nintendo is going to have to subsidize the marketing and PR for them just to get the franchise popular when SquareEnix has already released 6 Dragon Quest titles themselves. If they could make a melding of Final Fantasy and Disney characters popular, they should have been able to make Dragon Quest work by now.