Hmm; well, I hope something else aside from the "Pikachu XY anime special" comes up... If nothing comes up at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2015/E3 2015 (which I'm kind of doubting, considering that the games from
Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver and beyond have typically been announced well before the E3 convention), then I guess the
Pokemon core series might actually be taking a break this year, although you never know. We'll see if
"Pokemon Z" and/or "downloadable
Pokemon Emerald/Hoenn Battle Frontier content" comes to fruition (although the latter would probably be bittersweet for me, since I feel that
Pokemon OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire should have been delayed by a year or so in order to polish it up in various aspects prior to retail release and avoid all of this 'DLC' crap).
Both XY and ORAS had flaws and I think annual release contributed to that.
The notion that
both Pokemon X and Y and
Pokemon OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire have flaws (with the latter's being particularly more noticeable since it should have fixed several areas in which
Pokemon X and Y faltered) somehow make it seem more likely that we actually might have a "enhanced Kalos +
Emerald-ish Hoenn" hybrid game to "shake things up in the franchise", as weird as that hybrid seems to me..
Still, I'm kind of hoping to see whether
Pokemon "DeltaEmerald" will actually exist, so I know whether to get
Pokemon AlphaSapphire now or not (before it goes "out of stock due to a limited run" like
Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver did).. As much as I love Hoenn, having a "paired version"
and a "third version" of 3DS Hoenn-based games would feel kind of redundant for me..