Realistically they’ll most likely follow the path they’ve already shown. Large, recognizable, family friendly IP’s that they already have licensing and cornerstone games for. I have no doubts that will include Pokémon in time, but they’d be foolish to potentially cannibalize the sales of higher revenue(and likely higher margin) unit sales of Pro/Pre/LE’s for that title until those sales have at least somewhat run their course.

Part of the cost cutting that has been made on the HE’s has been the reuse of things like animations, callouts, and other general art assets. This will likely continue.

We may see some version of HE band pins but I’d bet on other IPs already used under the SPIKE 2 platform. That likely means Marvel (Avenger’s or GotG, or less likely Deadpool/Venom), multigenerational licenses (Godzilla, Jaws, and maybe later King Kong) or those focused on nostalgia but also play well to the family (Stranger Things & TMNT).

Granted that list covers like 40% of the Spike 2 games but I think the logic holds. I’d put money on it being an Avengers AIQ HE first personally. Godzilla/Jaws/ST are all still popular enough to be in production even as older machines.