What if Masuda is the good guy here? There was next to no reason to announce the Home situation at E3. If they did it in a separate, smaller interview, it wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much attention. It’s trending on twitter, the dislikes on the Treehouse vid are nearly at the likes. Hell, I even heard my brother, who doesn’t follow game news at all, talking about it. It’s caused a major shit up.
So what if Masuda knew this? He disagreed with the execs at Game Freak, and didn’t want us to lose our bros, so he announced it, hoping it would cause enough uproar to prevent it from happening.