Allthough i never played the 2 previous Legends games, its a kick in the teeth to every Mega Man fan who was waiting for a new game, personally i sort of called it in some topic somewhere when Miles Edgeworth 2 was announced not to leave Japan.
Probably going to look for the quote..
EDIT: Okay, perhaps not directly called it, but sort of indirectly. Page 2
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.276640-Capcoms-Not-Porting-Latest-Ace-Attorney-To-The-USA?page=2
Is Mega Man Effect now...in Effect? (personally, just because of the sales of SSREXE was abysmal doesn't mean that the series is bad, just look at MM9, 10 and even the Zero collection, essencially SSREXE was just a port of the first Battle Network with minor chip code changes and a short mini quest added....i don't think Megaman Xis was even a major focusing point outside of promotion)