This is the best thing ever as far as Gundam games go.
And he's right; Gundam is kind of in this odd state in the West: there's a substantial amount of sales of merchandise in the US and Canada (they still have an official distributor for their models) and Unicorn is quite popular here too among the existing fanbase. The non-domestic sales of Gundam are somewhat above 30% annually, and the US and Canada comprise probably alittle above half of that alone. But Bandai Entertainment was shuttered despite being in the black by a fair amount, and there is a sort of differing attitude by the old and new guard of NBH of how to address the fans in the West (or if they even should bother, following the failure in the first half of the 2000s).
In the short-term, the picture is kind of murky; despite the direct retailing of Unicorn we don't really know much else of the plans for Gundam here. The long-term picture is probably only something we can guess at, depending on what happens over the next two or so years (will we get a dubbed Origin, what plans are there for post-Unicorn, etc. in the West?). How well the hardcover, translated (and localized) release of The Origin manga does here could be a factor in their future actions.
AGE being a fucking failure still failed to push NBH into the red; Unicorn fucking prints them money like nothing has done ever before (even the SEEDs can't compare, though they're right up there with 0079 and Z). Had AGE done better, who knows what the additional revenue might have meant (likely nothing, as far as we're concerned, but who knows). One of the problems that has been highlighted so far, is that we get the younger people at conventions like Otacon - and they clearly understand there's a market here that's rather woefully underaddressed, with the old guys at the top dismissing it because of past failures (no doubt partially sourced in their decisions on how to do it here).