Tech Think: Scarlet and Violet Pokemon are ‘colossal tech failures’

Digital Foundry’s verdict is harsh.

It is undoubtedly heaven and hell for one-week-old babies Scarlet Pokemon And the Violet. On the one hand, double games sell 10 million in three days (a new Nintendo record!), On the other hand, many players have expressed their dissatisfaction with the technical outrage. Digital Foundry applies.

Technocrats believe it PokemonSwitch games hardly excelled in the technical realm, but that scarlet/violet It stands out in a painful way: it’s the one “widespread technical failure”

Poor picture quality, choppy frame rate, game ruining bugs. Problems are everywhere. Putting it alongside stream 2022 Pokemon Legends: Arceus I noticed What a step backwards.. building blocks “very basic”. It seems “ugly and cheap” Outside. Ouch.

More spawning – featured NPC’s and Pokemon, things whose animations have been greatly reduced, a camera running through things – in short, it’s a technical spawning. Most of it is a disaster, but there are glimmers of light. Some of the smaller cut environments look decent, as does the overall Pokemon design. But mostly rice.

Digital Foundry believes that there is no excuse for the key being so vulnerable.

Against Breath of the Wild or Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the Switch is clearly capable of delivering good-looking, expansive open worlds with decent image quality and fairly solid performance. However, it’s the comparisons to Pokémon Legends: Arceus that prove the most devastating – pretty impressive indeed, considering it’s the same developer with many of the same team members producing both games.

Arceus It was released early this year and is not considered very tasty, but testing confirms that it is nonetheless “more visually pleasing”. The duo sees the new games “excitingly” look worse.