Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
The problem is that they didn't want to give away the reveal of a second race before Tokyo.
Confirming that there were no male Viera in Paris would've caused even more backlash, or just given away the fact that a second race was coming.
Unfortunately that was leaked anyway, but they couldn't have anticipated that.
I just don't think keeping the "secret" of a second race was worth the backlash.

It would have been a much better strategy to say that a second race was coming, while not revealing any details about it - sometime between Paris and Tokyo, if not immediately at Paris. That would still build hype and interest about exactly what would be revealed, while letting people get through the disappointment over male Viera during the "downtime" between Fanfests rather than right when they were supposed to be excited about the new reveal.