I really have no expectations. GF showed with XY that they really aren't afraid to move drastically backwards or off the rails, so there's no predicting what will come of Get 8.
What I'm sure of is that we will continue to have less than 100 new Pokemon indefinitely. That's not a hardware issue, but a human recourses issue. Modeling 100+ uniquely animated playable characters is a herculean task. It had nothing to do with 3DS space or system limitations.
I want VA but, like I said, there's really no way to predict they'll make the jump. Gamefreak is slow as molasses when it comes to adopting modernity. I do think you'll see better character models that have no more remnants of chibi-ification, but that's pretty much a given.
I guess one expectation is that the presentation will still be sub-par. It will be good "for a Pokemon game."
Another expectation is that they are going to mess up Sinnoh, and that'll piss me up because they were the best Pokemon games.
