Nintendo Shares Footage of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Running on Nintendo Switch 2 at 60fps

Nintendo has conscionable released a abbreviated clip of footage from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet moving connected Nintendo Switch 2 astatine 60fps and... okay, sure, that does look a batch better.

The footage was released via the Nintendo Today! app. It's not much, conscionable implicit 30 seconds of clips of the main quality moving done the world, but it does amusement disconnected what seems to beryllium a important betterment implicit the Nintendo Switch 1 mentation of the game.

Official footage of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet moving connected Switch 2 astatine 60fps pic.twitter.com/HRVsardqUg

At 60fps, galore of the issues with characters popping successful and retired astatine a abbreviated region look to beryllium alleviated, and much Pokémon are capable to look connected screen, astatine further distances, astatine a time. In peculiar the main city, Mesagoza, looks a batch amended successful the little glimpse we get, and being capable to spot much Pokémon from farther distant helps the satellite look a interaction little empty.

Of course, astatine conscionable fractional a infinitesimal of official, curated footage, it's not truly imaginable to accidental however this impacts the acquisition holistically. In our reappraisal of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet astatine launch, we noted that the fps was truly conscionable 1 contented of many. At the time, Scarlet and Violet were riddled with bugs ranging from harmless ocular goofiness to crippled crashing, and features specified arsenic raid battles seemed to beryllium breached by design. Multiple DLC releases didn't alleviate astir of those issues, either.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot however overmuch of a quality a Nintendo Switch 2 makes to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet erstwhile the upgrade spot releases connected June 5 alongside the console. Its improvements volition apt beryllium a harbinger of what's to travel with the imminent merchandise of Pokemon Legends Z-A this October, too.

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