The latest Pokemon games have had the most significant worldwide launch sales in Nintendo’s history, despite players complaining of bugs and poor graphics performance.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, released last week on the Switch, have the lowest user scores in series history on the Metacritic reviews aggregator website.
Previously the lowest-scoring game was Pokemon Unite with an average score of 3.7, but Scarlet and Violet have “beaten” that with 2.9 and 3.4 respectively at the time 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 million copies in their first three days.
But players on social media have documented numerous glitches and evidence of poor graphical performance.
It’s fair to say that the visuals are pretty lacklustre by modern standards – for our…
