Pokémon HOME Getting Scarlet And Violet Support In Update Next Week

Damn, is slowpoke running TPC? It really doesn’t make sense how this stuff takes so long

Whoops, sorry guys, it’s actually not the 30th of May. We actually meant the 30th of may, 2024. You know, after the DLC. Makes sense, right, our loyal fan base?

Gonna wait a couple hours until the post another retraction.

Skipped out on a lot of the event raids after Cinderace because the difficulty spike at 6-7 star raids was not fun for me and I’d rather just transfer the other previous Gen. Pokémon I want. Although at this point, I won’t have any need for them ingame until the DLC comes out. =/

Isn't it convenient that it's RIGHT BEFORE THEIR BIG CONFERENCE with all their investors...

Almost like last year with BDSP and Legends Arceus... Oh, what's that? The delay for HOME for those games was due to BDSP being built in Unity? Well then, amazing how they got it fixed right before the conference then!

Are they sure this time?
...just checking 😜😂

ETA before delay? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

In all seriousness I'm excited

I'll probably get back into Scarlet AFTER the DLC comes out. But even that may not happen as I will most likely wait until GF releases Scarlet/Violet with the DLC included. By then the games will be patched-up already...assuming they even do that.

It's happening, maybe...

Finally decided that i likely won't throw gamefreak money for their dlc, but this addition might get me a few more hours out of the game. I love these games, they had so much potential... I hope GF's future games are higher quality than these buggy excuses for entries in the world's highest grossing franchise :/

Perfectly reasonable to have a paid subscription service take six months to have support for the current main product it's connected to. Super not-predatory behavior.

They realized Spring 2023 was almost over and had to work on something other than 7 Star Raids.

~~~sarcastic confetti~~~

I'll file this under "I'll believe it when i see it", TBH.

So now we know that TPC considers May "early 2023."

People thought Sword and Shield were bad at the time, but at this point in the year we had Home compatibility for months. And the first DLC was only a few weeks away.
-and I remember everyone complaining about ugly trees, not broken saves and events.

...suddenly that seems impressive.

Not too bad from the previous date given. It's not really a compliment though with how long it's taken since S&V release.

Can't understand why it's had to take this long, feels like they didn't priorities something important after getting the profit but I guess I don't know for certain.

It doesn't really effect me but it's an important part on what the game should be offering much closer to release, the features of backing up and transfering Pokemon.

I'll believe it when I see it

@RubyCarbuncle Sure but it would been more fun for me to use a Pokémon that I really liked and naturally trained while playing the story rather than having to rely on building up specifc meta options for each raid.

I actually didn't have any luck with Azumarill in catching Cinderace. I had to build up a Espathra since it's Opportunist ability helped as raid Cinderace spams buffs.

Safe to say that Gamefreak and the Pokemon company are gunna need to prove themselves moving forward at least in my book. I got the game despite the controversy and while I did enjoy it, at the same time I still cant help but feel like I’ve been cheated out of the true experience I wanted from it.

Kind of off topic but speaking to the infamous performance issues still plaguing the games, “Outdated hardware” is a terrible excuse for lack of care.

At least the core mechanics of what makes a Pokemon game are there, but the promise of the open world is flawed, buggy, and Gamefreak can’t even release new content in working condition.

I’m skeptical about next weeks update and very skeptical about the DLC content slated for later this year. For those who can continue to enjoy the game, more power to you, but for me, a long time Pokemon fan, I have to say at this point I’m disappointed.

@Tobunari and still doesn’t work properly, no spinda can move to/from BDSP 😂

Scarlet/Violet has been such a joyless experience. Legends Arceus was far better designed and made for a vastly superior (semi) open world game.

I've (mostly) completed Violet, but haven't touched Scarlet yet, as I've been waiting for Home support and performance/stability improvements for my second play-through, but to be quite frank, I'd rather keep playing Legends Arceus or even replay Sword/Shield.

@Sisilly_G Can you answer me an honest question?

@DanijoEX Its GameFreak. They're not really going to patch performance.

There's still performance issues in Legends Arceus and a huge Game Crash Glitch that's still in the game.

GameFreak only cares if you're able to clone Pokémon or there's something like the Luminose City Glitch that prevents people from playing the game. (Unless it's a save deletion glitch, because to them it doesn't matter if you lose progress and have to start over)

Does it run? Well then they're not touching it, even if that means it runs a 5fps.

@Mathieu_B Lot of companies do, unfortunately that's the sad reality for the public who looks at the concept of time differently from soulless corporations.

As long as it's not July 1st, it's "Early ####" - this is a standardized business thing.

@miitomobenji "Kind of off topic but speaking to the infamous performance issues still plaguing the games, “Outdated hardware” is a terrible excuse for lack of care."

The general excuses people like to give are either "Outdated Hardware" or "Not enough time given to properly develop the games"

For Hardware, sure, the Switch was dated even when it came out by technical standards, the overall issue is that it's clearly about who's at the helm. While a Switch port may not always be as impressive as it is on another system (especially PC because it's easy to pump more processing power into a game to make it run batter) the Switch does prove its worth in doing what it does: playing games. Especially if you have a team familiar with the system.

The issue with Pokémon in this front is that GameFreak, if you look into the data of these games, essentially built the game off the other ones. And while that's great for getting the game ready and out there as a good deal of the legwork is done, you have to realize that eventually that code is going to bog down things.

We already see this with Nintendo Switch Online versions of games, especially if they're running online - they're not meant to be played like that, and I'd argue it would be worse if they were trying to run natively on the Switch's hardware using their old coding instead of running off the application's emulator.

(Or for a more indie approach, the whole issue with Yandere Simulator and its developer's awful coding resulting in high end PCs you'd think would be able to run it smoothly end up with a constantly crashing 15fps at best nightmare.)

Essentially, that's what Pokémon is doing: running old code from the GBA days, with slight improvements from each generation on the DS and 3DS, resulting in a bogged down game that GameFreak had to trim the fat (the Pokémon and the textures) to get the games to run on the system.

For the time excuse, well the biggest ordeal is that they also tend to split the team, and do it intentionally. I get the phrase "too many cooks spoil the kitchen" but if they had more hands, maybe the game would've had at least some improvement on the performance scene. Instead, they split the team to make Legends Arceus which may or may not have been a full Gen 8 take on Diamond and Pearl before focus shifted to a game set in the past while ILCA takes reign on the remakes (which makes sense considering the wilderness areas of PLA would've been easier to make given the experience with the Wild Area & DLC of Sword/Shield while making cities would've prolonged the Diamond/Pearl remakes for a much longer time period)

In the end though, I doubt if the Scarlet/Violet team were given a year or two extra, the games would've had better performance. Every mainline Switch Pokemon game suffers from performance issues, the only exception ironically enough is Let's Go.

Sorry for this long post/reply, had to get my thoughts down.

@Cero So they still need fixing...

Oh wait, it's not a clone glitch, guess it remains unfixed.

@Sisilly_G And even that (Legends Arceus) has performance issues.