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I don't know. Asj-Greninja is practically iconic to the anime by this point. At least as much as Pikachu. Whereas the Spiky Eared Pichu was actually pretty obscure, and only really just a cute Easter Egg. I feel like Ash-Greninja has good potential to keep going and keep using that form even in later games. Especially if they're able to re-use the models and coding.
There is also the matter of Ash-Greninja bringing a significant statistical change to Greninja; it gives it a whole new form with a huge stat increase. Whereas SE Pichu's only difference was its Pokéathlon stats, and Cosplay Pikachu's was its Contest moves, and those were obviously both connected to specific features that were exclusive to their respective games. Ash-Greninja isn't tethered to SM in that way.