>>54630773They confirmed it won't be immediately shut down, but they made no promise of how much longer it will be maintained. Could be a month, could be a year, anything beyond that is highly unlikely but technically possible. We're at the mercy of a company that neither communicates well with its customers ahead of time nor responds to feedback with anything more than "It's great you're passionate about our products, but the decision is final. We look forward to selling you the next product."
>>54630801From the homebrew/modding scene: maybe.
Officially: no way in hell. They didn't do that back in gen 3 when they were desperately trying to claw back pokemon's popularity after pokemania faded and Nintendo was still making weird accessories like the e-reader.