The latest masterpiece of the ninth generation of Nintendo’s signature series “Pokémon” “Pokémon Crimson/Purple” officially landed on the Nintendo Switch platform on November 18th. This long-awaited new work has brought many changes to the entire series in terms of gameplay, inheriting the open world design concept of the entry series “Pokémon Legend: Arceus”, allowing players to explore in a vast map, decide the order of the main missions alone. However, in terms of overall optimized performance, the development team seems to be a little behind the conceptual presentation of this work. While the sequel managed to break franchise records within days, the optimization and performance issues have sparked a lot of controversy among gamers. And just earlier this month, Nintendo also officially released the first wave of updates for “Pokémon Zhu / Purple”, and promised to take optimization issues seriously.
According to the updated information released by Nintendo on the official website, the latest “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple” version 1.1.0 update file fixed the background music that players may encounter when fighting against the Four Heavenly Kings and the Chief Champion In addition, Nintendo also confirmed in the description that they have fixed many other bugs and errors in this update. On the other hand, this update also officially opened the first season of “Pokémon Vermillion/Purple” online battles.
At the same time, Nintendo officials also promised in a statement that they will continue to work hard to correct the currently existing problems in the first open-world game of the “Pokémon” series and improve performance. players for various problems when Pokémon Vermilion/Purple was released.
“We are aware of the issues players may experience that affect game performance. Our goal is always to provide players with the most positive experience through our games and we would like to apologize for any inconvenience. We will consider all We take feedback seriously and we continue to work hard to improve this game.” Official Nintendohe wrote
For now, neither Nintendo nor the Pokémon Company has provided a detailed schedule for the future “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple” update plan, but considering the release of version 1.1.0 and the game The official listing was only two weeks away , and was also three weeks behind the day one update file obtained by stealthy players. If Nintendo continues with the same model in the future, players could see another wave of updates roll out in mid-December.
Soon after the game’s official launch, players discovered various bugs, errors and system loopholes in “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple”, such as errors that appeared in the multiplayer cooperative battle game “Taijing Group Battle” and the ability to Un bug that allows players to increase the success rate of instant death skills such as “Absolute Zero” in multiplayer mode, as well as duplicate props and Pokémon, or use two Joy-Con controllers to accelerate the player’s movement speed.
Due to bugs and performance issues, the game received unsatisfactory reviews from both media and players. So far, both versions of “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple” have received an average media score of 73 points on Metacritic, while player ratings are 2.9/10 and 3.4/10 respectively. Despite this, “Pokémon Vermilion/Purple” still achieved outstanding results in terms of sales: in three days of its launch, it achieved a sales volume of 10 million sets worldwide, beating the historical record of the series and Nintendo Switch.
