{"id":16814,"date":"2022-11-18T20:58:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=16814"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T07:16:22","slug":"20221118-16814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20221118-16814\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet are peppered with complaints about performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n



Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet <\/em>and Violet<\/em><\/strong> have been released on November 18. The ambitious new titles incorporate a variety of brand-new features, but shortly after release, there has been a flood of reports concerning performance issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet <\/em>and Violet <\/em>are the latest titles in the Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> series and have been developed by Game Freak. The biggest change in the games is that they now take place in an open world in which players can enjoy a seamless adventure across many towns and landscapes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> series conventions found in previous titles have been reworked, including changes like non-linear story progression and the introduction of the Let\u2019s Go system, which allows for automatic battles with wild Pok\u00e9mon without transitioning to the regular battle screen. However, the games have a number of performance issues\u2014possibly the result of the aforementioned ambitious changes.
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Polygon<\/a> had three writers play the game for around 20-40 hours each, and they reported significant drops in frame rate and occasional crashes. A reviewer for IGN<\/a> commented, \u201cIt is, by far, the worst-running Pok\u00e9mon game I have ever played, and among the worst-running AAA games I\u2019ve played on the Switch so far. And yes, this is with the day one patch.\u201d In Japan, \u201c\u51e6\u7406\u843d\u3061(Shori Ochi),\u201d which can be translated as \u201cframe rate drops,\u201d was one of the trending Twitter terms for November 18.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as reports from regular players, a post by Twitter user @Cherrim has been met with an overwhelming response. The video in the tweet shows a Psyduck being captured during the early stages of the game and features quite a lot of choppiness. Objects in the background also pop in and out of existence, making the video quite demonstrative of the current issues. The tweet quickly became a widely shared example of the poor performance found in the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to @Cherrim, the video was recorded while the game was in handheld mode, and it had been updated with the latest patch. She also mentioned that when playing in TV mode, there weren\u2019t really any frame rate issues. There have been similar reports from players in Japan, so it\u2019s unlikely that @Cherrim\u2019s problems are an isolated case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The games feature a vast open world that can be freely explored without any loading screens. It\u2019s unclear whether this is the cause of the issues, but there are locations where the frame rate drops and many instances where the games cannot maintain a stable 30fps. The frequency of the frame rate drops also appears to be influenced by whether the games are being played in Handheld or TV mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube channel Potato Spud Gaming created a video that shows a frame rate comparison between Handheld and TV modes. Both modes struggled to hit 30fps for the majority of the video, but when there were a lot of objects on screen, TV mode appeared to maintain a slightly higher frame rate. Both modes appeared to perform well during cutscenes and battles, with a frame rate that stayed around 30, but when exploring the open world, frame rate drops appeared to be very common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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