Certainly not out of the question. Ash got Torkoal when he was just over halfway through Hoenn, but at least he only had four badges at that point. Ash has five now in Kalos.
XY75 'Three-Match Rival Battle! Towards the Future!!'
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I do hope Ash will continue catching Pokémon. It looks like he'll be going Noibat at least next episode, and there's still plenty of traveling and such, too. XY didn't really introduce all too many new Pokémon, but there's still quite a bunch we haven't seen at all, and even some Pokémon that have gotten a "featured" episode ended up getting captured later (ie, Pancham).
That is one thing I did like about BW, the fact that Ash captured other Pokémon besides his core team. Granted a lot of them, like Boldore and Palpitoad, only got minimal screen time, but the options were there. Besides if one thinks about it there were only 69 Pokémon in gen 6 but we only have three trainers so there is more than enough to hypothetically go around, and as Clemont's Luxray demonstrates (as well as Serena's assumed Eevee though of course that could lead to gen 6 Sylveon) they are not necessarily limited to the current generation to capture.