Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-27541250-20160104022402/@comment-24808887-20160104102156

No implication at all there. If having Rinnegan would make them Sages of Six paths, Tobi would outright said so, instead term "Rikudou" was used. Considering Hagoromo was first one with Rinnegan and Tobi was speaking about people who wielded it, numeral is pretty correct.