There is no longer only the criticism now fixed on graphics that are not too modern for the developers of Game Freak: with the new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, in fact, there are more and more reports of malfunctions and various technical problems. A few minutes of exploration of Paldea are enough to find yourself faced with inconsistent performance between one area and another, with massive drops in frame rates and abundant glitches, including the one that allows you to move twice as fast if you play with two left controllers or with bizarre behaviors of protagonists and Pokémon. According to the programmer and researcher SciresM on Twitter, a not so well optimized memory management is at the root of the problems, which leads to fluctuating fluctuance as 3 of the 4 GB of ram is used up and a reset is often necessary after just an hour of play to return to acceptable levels.
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Also, there are problems with spawns (that is, monster appearances) with too marked differences. Just take the small area of Area Zero to find in fact 36,000 spawn points, half of the distribution in the rest of the world. And so the refund requests are triggered, which on the Nintendo Store is not so simple if you have downloaded the game in digital form: as explained on Reddit, it is in fact necessary to log in with your credentials on the official Nintendo website, visit the Help Center, then "Do you still need help?" to open a chat with an operator and request a refund for technical problems.