Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are Getting A Day One Update

Any news on when the game will go live? Will it be midnight for each region or a set global time.

Imma boot up in airplane mode, no need for online anything until the campaign is cleared.

Here we go again, day one update.

@TheBigK ….why?

As long as it's not like the abominable BD/SP, which were unfinished in their "Version 1.0" form, and required a 3GB-ish download.

A day one update is pretty much the norm these days. I don't think this warranted a whole article.

@UltimateOtaku91 It’s usually midnight each region’s time. I’ll be at Nintendo NY for whatever (if any) launch event yet 10am on Thursday the 17th, I can play the game’s digital copy I preordered under my Japanese eshop account because that will be midnight Japan time

Wow, they really punched future physical copy reselling in the face there.

day one updates are a way to keep street dates in check cause if broken then the player can’t have access to the whole game

@FishyS Not just every major game, I haven't seen a game in the last 4 years that didn't have a one day patch, or needed one.

@Pikaboom because he's theBigK... THAT'S WHY! 😁

@ZapNCrap 's fine. It's a news worth sharing, i wanna know if I have to update on day 1

It's only a 1GB, won't take long. The fact that games like call of duty on the Xbox have 60GB patches

It would be cool if you could download the patch before getting hold of the physical game. It used to be possible to download updates for games you didn't own on the 3DS.

Cannot wait to get this great game, I am getting violet, my brother is getting Scarlet, so we can play together, great graphics, great new Pokemon, open world and so much more, this is going to be my favorite Pokemon game since the first one, the other games are fine, but this looks to be one of the very best, so excited for this one.

1gb out of cartridge! Congratulations for the disrespect to those who buy physical media. It feels good to know that Legends Arceus is "practically" complete.

Why do some people get mad about day one updates? I really don’t understand, it fixes or adds stability to games right before launch, fixes of bugs they didn’t catch in time.

I like day one updates.

@Snatcher One of the reasons people like physical copies is because after the Switch is discontinued, after the eShop is inevitably shut down (which would be sooner than most of us expected with Nintendo's recent actions) a physical cartridge can still be put in a used Switch and played. They are upset that they don't have the complete game physically on the cart, making their physical purchase incomplete compared to a download.

While I like having the full game on the cartridge, if all this patch does is allow online play, I don't think it's really that big of a deal. Odds are that by the time this patch can no longer be downloaded, the online servers will have shut down or will soon be shutting down anyway.

@Nua This is vary true, it’s even why I go physical.

I just don’t think there all that bad personally, depends on the patch, if this patch is allowing online play, then I completely understand I didn’t know this when I made my comment.

People just seem to hate day one patches of all kinds, but the ones that add content such as this The frustration I get behind.

Ok i dont see the point in these articles as all games are unfinished and need a day one update nowadays

Really pushing out that "fix it later" mentality huh.

@TheBigK and you might miss out on bug fixes and performance improvements.

@Bunkerneath Clicks (engagement)

Can confirm it does nothing to fix the atrocious performance from what I can perceive.

From what I have seen performance is terrible. There was a scene of kids sat swinging their legs and each leg stuttered.

Another example is walking down the street I would say they only walk smooth up to 15ft in game.

I’ve only seen worse performance in a battle in xenoblade 2 which dropped to maybe 3 fps

Usually I don’t care about fps but this is so obvious it becomes a distraction.

I have seen some positives in it though for other aspects so still looking forward to its release

I changed my mind on the game based on performance, game looks bad. There was a part where the clipping was preventing you jump a 3 ft fence while riding that Pokémon, when the Pokémon can jump at least 8 ft. It’s little details like that which make the game poor

Ideally you’d like to wait till the game gets some polish but I believe there are some event raids being made available soon.

Glad the update is available for people with review copies, so we can have a complete score and none of that "review pending" crap.

@piecez I'm torn because clearly Game Freak can't program to save their lives, but I heard the actual content and story in this game are really good compared to the past few generations.

@ShikabaneHime13 really wish they would just release the digital version at the same time worldwide. theres not much a point in not doing so as the pirates have already gotten their mitts on it and even if they hadn't the game would just get spoiled anyway for every region thats not the first to get the game.

@TheCrabMan
considering the people in the topic did a good job articulating what issues they have with it then i would imagine they would do fine.

@TheCrabMan
in this games case i cant really see it affecting reselling since the patch itself is largely for online features though i can understand the idea of concern about whether a game would be "incomplete" without it or have bugs/performance issues without the patch (though in this games case another user confirmed the issues are still there)

on the other hand i do understand that a lot of the time these aspects can be outside of the developers hands and that day 1 patches allow them to work on fixes after a game goes gold.

i can also see how nintendos handling of certain online aspects in the past (such as having digital purchases tied to a console) would leave them not exactly feeling confident in whether or not patches will still be available in the future.

in every comment thread you are bound to get the odd unconstructive comment such as criticising something without giving a reason or dismissal of criticism with no counterpoint (such as when you get those who treat criticism of a game as people just "hating" on it)

@Snatcher …they could have taken the extra time to fix the bugs before sending the game cards to press. I mean, since day one patches are so common these days it’s not like they couldn’t have predicted that it would need one if they didn’t take the extra time. The truth is that day one patches harm the resell market and it saves them money by not needing a larger game card. These both work in their favor. After all, it’s better that they pass the storage cost onto you.