New Pokemon games set sales record - despite worst fan reception

The latest Pokemon games person had the astir important worldwide motorboat income successful Nintendo's history, contempt players complaining of bugs and mediocre graphics performance.

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, released past week connected the Switch, person the lowest idiosyncratic scores successful bid past connected the Metacritic reviews aggregator website.

Previously the lowest-scoring crippled was Pokemon Unite with an mean people of 3.7, but Scarlet and Violet person "beaten" that with 2.9 and 3.4 respectively astatine the clip of writing.

Scarlet and Violet were mostly praised by critics, with reviews complimenting the addictive gameplay and vibrant colours, and they sold a combined 10 cardinal copies successful their archetypal 3 days.

But players connected societal media person documented galore glitches and grounds of mediocre graphical performance.

It's just to accidental that the visuals are beauteous lacklustre by modern standards - for our money, they're reminiscent of a PlayStation 3 crippled from yesteryear.

During Sky News' clip with the game, framework complaint drops were predominant adjacent successful elemental scenarios, and Pokemon and different characters popped successful and retired of the landscape.

The gameplay, which continues Pokemon's modulation into a much unfastened satellite experience, remains enjoyable.

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Shoddy graphics rise questions astir Switch's aboriginal

Some person enactment the mediocre graphical show down to the Switch's hardware - adjacent the astir caller iteration, the premium Switch OLED model, is little almighty than Sony's last-generation PlayStation 4.

But much than 5 years aft it was released, the Switch is inactive incredibly fashionable and was predicted to look arsenic Black Friday's astir fashionable console.

Searches for the Switch were 132% higher than for Microsoft's Xbox Series X and Sony's PlayStation 5, which chimes with accordant results showing the Switch to beryllium the top-selling console each twelvemonth since release.

The console is inactive susceptible of producing immoderate excellent-looking games, with fans looking guardant to the upcoming unfastened satellite epic Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom.

Scarlet and Violet's issues person raised questions astir the aboriginal of regular Pokemon developer GameFreak, but careless of the middling reception, Nintendo surely won't beryllium disquieted astir its fiscal performance.