So what will be the big Pokémon Day announcement as far as the main series goes? I think there will be two: Pocket Monsters Black 3 & White 3 for the Nintendo Switch. I can see these games coming out either late 2024 or sometime in 2025.

Well, neither one of my video game predictions came true! I guess the closest we're ever going to get to a Black 3 & White 3 is the DLC for Scarlet & Violet...? Ah well.

Pocket Monsters Generation 10 for the Nintendo Switch 2 (or whatever they end up calling it). We won't get much more than a teaser (maybe white text on a black background that says "Brand new Pokémon game has started development!" or something like that) but we will at least know the next Generation is officially in the works.

Nope, this didn't happen either. For the record, I'm actually happy we still have no idea when Generation 10's coming; the longer Game Freak takes to make the next set of games, I say, the better. There is absolutely no need to rush.

Pokémon Go will have to release the Galar starters at some point, right? So I'm thinking that point will be sometime in 2024.

At least I got one right! The mobile game introduced the Galar starters on September 3rd, 2024 as part of its "GO All Out Event."

I get the feeling we're going to see a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game sometime this year. I don't know why, I just feel like the timing's right.

Nope, this didn't happen.

The Switch will see the Pokémon Pinball games for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance come to its Virtual Console service. The latter was already put up on the Wii U Virtual Console back in the day and so it'd be an easy one to throw on the service, and Nintendo's included Rumble Pak functionalities in lots of other Virtual Console games before so doing the same for Pokémon Pinball shouldn't be too much of a hassle.

This one didn't happen either, though to be fair it absolutely should have. Why not throw them up on the service? It's not like Nintendo's doing much of anything else with its Virtual Console at the moment!

I think Liko and Roy will get the other three heroes before the end of the year and that Terapagos will leave the group, but beyond that? It's hard to say. I can see Amethio maybe joining forces with the Rising Volteccers at some point to take down some super powerful Pokémon or something, but that truce will end up only being temporary.

Liko and Roy got two of the three remaining heroes in 2024, and were on track to get the last one at the end of the year but it turns out the Entei they encountered wasn't Lucius' and so the hunt continues. Amethio did kind of team up with the Explorers in the fight against Black Rayquaza back in March, and then he also helped Liko out a bit when they both got trapped in that cave near Mt. Napper back in September, so maybe I can get half credit for that part...?

Since the black Rayquaza is kind of the central point of the show right now it would make sense for our heroes to head over to the Hoenn Region at some point.

The gang went to Paldea, Kitakami, and Johto, but not Hoenn.

Once the Terapagos story is done I can see the show bringing in Ogerpon and the other Momotaro Pokémon.

Well, for starters the Terapagos story isn't even done yet so the first part of this prediction did not come true. An Ogre Mask did appear in the background during the Kitakami festival episode but neither Ogerpon nor the other DLC Pokémon themselves have appeared in the TV series yet.

I think at least one of the heroes' starters -- either Nyahoja or Hogator -- will evolve before the year's up. But! I don't see it happening for both starters; it'll either be one or the other.

Actually, all three starters evolved!

I am not doing well with these predictions so far, am I?

Satoshi and his friends won't show up in the TV series in any capacity in the year 2024.

Finally, I got one 100% right! Satoshi and his friends, thankfully, did not show up in the TV series in 2024.

I can see us getting a CD release of the show's background music sometime in 2024.

This one also happened! "Pocket Monsters Liko's and Roy's Adventure" Animated Series Original Soundtrack was released on June 19th, 2024.

I don't see us getting a new movie this year. I know there are supposedly "leaks" out there that "reveal" a new movie's in the works or whatever, but I haven't seen anything to suggest any of that's anything more than baseless Internet rumors. If we were going to get a new movie this summer we would've already had a teaser by now, and after the way Pocket Monsters The Movie "Koko" did in the box office I don't see a December release being likely either.

Does anyone else remember those "leaks" from back in January 2024 promising a new movie...? Whether you do or not, at the end of the day this did not end up happening.

Yeah, all signs are still pointing to a "no" on this one. The staff of the show spent 2024 working on the new season of "Mass Produced Liko," the show they were working on before PokéTsume, but that's already finished airing by now and yet there's still no word of them moving on to a new season of PokéTsume. There's always a chance a Season 2 will pop up someday, sure, but the more time passes the less likely it seems.

The live action series is reportedly still in the works, but 2024 didn't really bring us any news regarding the project. Guess we'll just have to continue to wait and see.