{"id":75113,"date":"2026-04-09T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75113"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:41:04","slug":"pokemon-champions-bug-on-switch-2-demands-you-briefly-undock-the-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75113","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Champions Bug On Switch 2 Demands You Briefly Undock The System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of Pokemon Champions has come with more problems than you can fit in a Poke Ball, but a Switch 2-specific bug affecting the game&#8217;s resolution might take the cake as the strangest issue.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Pokemon fan account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CentroLeaks\/status\/2041967594085748792?s=20\">Centro Leaks<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/pokemon-champions-launch-woes-continue-as-switch-2-players-discover-they-must-manually-dock-and-undock-consoles-for-best-graphics\">IGN<\/a>) pointed out that Pokemon Champions runs at a lower 1080p resolution in TV mode on Switch 2, and the current solution to get proper 4K visuals is to undock the Switch 2 and re-dock it. Joe Merrick, owner of fan site Serebii, corroborated the existence of the glitch in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joemerrick\/status\/2041989997771751472?s=46&amp;t=CBN0_ccfDeNt8JVYODuUrQ\">X post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pokemon Champions only has a version for the first Nintendo Switch, but it&#8217;s one of many Nintendo-published titles with enhanced visuals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/all-free-nintendo-switch-2-game-updates-changes\/2900-6591\/\">through a free Switch 2 update<\/a>. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/gaming-systems\/switch-2\/transfer-guide\/games-with-free-updates\/\">Nintendo&#8217;s website<\/a>, Champions on Switch 2 is optimized for the console&#8217;s screen and &#8220;high-resolution TVs for improved image quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CentroLeaks\/status\/2041967594085748792?s=20\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions bug on Switch 2 causes RESOLUTION TO BE HALVED:<br \/>&#8211; If you start the game while the console is docked the resolution is halved <br \/>&#8211; If you undock and dock the console while the game is running the resolution gets fixed<br \/>I\u2019m seriously at a loss of words for this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPYt7q7hfy\">pic.twitter.com\/CPYt7q7hfy<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Centro LEAKS (@CentroLeaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CentroLeaks\/status\/2041967594085748792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of Pokemon Champions has come with more problems than you can fit in a Poke Ball, but a Switch 2-specific bug affecting the game&#8217;s resolution might take the cake as the strangest issue. Prominent Pokemon fan account Centro Leaks (via IGN) pointed out that Pokemon Champions runs at a lower 1080p resolution in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":75115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75116,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75113\/revisions\/75116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}