I just so happened to visit gamespot today and found this article
Q&A: Final Fantasy bard Nobuo Uematsu - News at GameSpot

Nobuo says that he's got something planned big for the end of this year. I eager to find out what it is. Something else that I also didn't know was that he composed the main theme for Smash Bros. Brawl. I kind of thought it seemed sort of his style,that just makes Smash even greater.