*snickers* Pretty much, yes. And since no one can out-emo Cloud, clearly the drama was the only choice - Genesis definitely is the biggest attention whore in the whole Compilation of FF7 verse. But hey, at least he's the number one in something.
By remaking the original game they'd risk losing the hardcore gamer fans, so it's better to keep on with spawning sequel/prequels in all kinds and formats and beat the OG to DEATH. *snerk* Given the latest Squeenix trend of cleaning up games and sending them out for DS/PSP, I think that's more likely than a PS3 remake. The rabid fangirl in me would be squealy happy even with just a PSP cleaned-up version.