


Now, this is speculation, but from an educated source (supposedly). I won’t say I wasn’t a little disappointed to learn this wasn’t the cause behind the malfunctions. I imagined a Rattata behind a TV, chewing on some wires. When I first heard that pokemon were ruining Roku devices, my mind went to the old gremlins of folklore that would sabotage aircraft and other machinery in the early 20th century. Furthermore, if the Switch is put into Airplane mode (where it stops sending out signals of any kind), the issue resolves itself and the Roku devices work without error. Roku users have recently begun to experience issues with their various Roku devices, including televisions, where the units will freeze and reboot and generally become stuck in a “boot loop.” This is when the unit starts up, or “boots,” and then resets itself, only to complete the cycle over and over again indefinitely.Ī band of crafty Redditors quickly realized that the issue occurs when a nearby party is playing Pokemon Sword and Shield on the Nintendo Switch.
