The reason they assume this could be a Remake is because he's said it's something High in Demand, and the highest demands of square people have lately are remakes, so it's a reasonable assumption in this case I'd think.

That said, I do hope they continue on remaking 5 and 6 like they did 4 on DS, if only because it kept the awesome feel of the game, all while adding legitimate improvements to it, making it worth paying for again.

Though I do wish they would give us a New and original console RPG other then FF that is really good, like they use to be able to do so well. I don't think they've really done a great RPG outside of FF since the PS1 era. (I'm not counting action RPG's in this equation. )