Yeah, no he didn't. We've been over this crap a million times. FFVsXIII was announced years before it had any reasonable reason to be announced (which more than likely wasn't Nomura's decision, but some higher-ups wanted a big bang with the announcement of their Fabula Nova Crystalis shit), when it was just in a conceptualizing phase when they couldn't even move on with the development of FFXIII & FFXIV, let alone games like FFVsXIII that were always supposed to come after those two. Up until 2012, Nomura was also hugely involved with a lot of great games, so it's not like he's been doing nothing for SQEX since E3 2006 (he's been more or less involved with most of the best games of SQEX post-PS2 era while Toriyama has done his best to crap everything he touches).
Mirriam Webster said:Main Entry: joke
Pronunciation: ˈjōk
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin jocus; perhaps akin to Old High German gehan to say, Sanskrit yācati he asks
Date: 1670
1 a : something said or done to provoke laughter ; especially : a brief oral narrative with a climactic humorous twist b (1) : the humorous or ridiculous element in something (2) : an instance of jesting : kidding <can't take a joke> c : practical joke d : laughingstock 2 : something not to be taken seriously : a trifling matter <consider his skiing a joke Harold Callender> often used in negative constructions <it is no joke to be lost in the desert>
Some of you guys seriously need to stop being so defensive.