Pokemon fans plan to forgo Scarlet and Violet DLC over enduring performance issues

gamesradar.com:

Pokemon Day 2023 was marked by the announcement of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLC - but given the state that the base game launched in, several fans say they don't know that they'll dive back in.

In our Pokemon Scarlet and Violet review, Joel said that the games were "rough, both in terms of its performance and visual fidelity." He reported crashes, frequent lag and slowdown, constant pop-in, lengthy load times, and plenty of glitches, all on top of an open world not impressive enough to account for those issues. Performance analysis backed up that assessment, and Nintendo has been attempting (albeit slowly) to fix them with two performance-focused patches since launch.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be enough to be encouraging players back to the game. In the wake of the announcement, several fans took to social media to suggest that without a concrete fix in place for many of the problems plaguing the game, they're unlikely to venture toward the DLC

the new pokemon, areas and story being sold to us in the scarlet violet dlc are definitely enticing and seem like they will be fun but the base game doesn’t exactly instill much confidence about the quality of the dlc in me. makes it much harder for me to get hyped too.February 27, 2023

I’m disappointed @NintendoAmerica, despite acknowledging it, didn’t bring an update on the patch to fix Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. They’re focused on DLC. Is this the quality the official Nintendo Seal of Approval gives us these days?We got PokemonMasterSex, at least.February 27, 2023

I’m disappointed @NintendoAmerica, despite acknowledging it, didn’t bring an update on the patch to fix Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. They’re focused on DLC. Is this the quality the official Nintendo Seal