Atleast that's what I'm expecting! As of what we know now, Yoshi is getting two new games of his own next year, being Yarn Yoshi and Yoshi's New Island. On top of that, he's appearing in 3 other known games, being Mario Kart 8, Mario Golf World Tour, and Super Smash Bros. 4. Not to mention any newly unveiled games, possibly Mario Strikers, Mario Tenis, Mario Party, and so ons. Already, Yoshi is the single most prevalent Nintendo character in 2014, even beating out Mario who doesn't even star in any games of his own. So because of all that, even if Nintendo doesn't make it official (though I bet they will), 2014 really will be the Year of Yoshi! ^_^

I heard a rumor about this. I can also see it happening. Hope they do it, love Yoshi!

I remember someone pointing this out to me on the forums and it just clicked, I think its gonna happen.

I doubt a Year of Yoshi will ever actually be officially confirmed by Nintendo, but we can always believe in our hearts.

I think so too. I think they will plug that smash reveal of yoshi somewhere to hype the year of yoshi.

Also a SM3DWorld DLC featuring Yoshi sometime next year, I'm calling it now.

I would love some official Year of Yoshi merchandise!

The more Yoshi the better.

There seems to be too much Yoshi stuff happening for it not to be the Year of Yoshi...