Switch OLED Trailer Shows Tweaked Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Footage

The bag in the original build is very funny in hindsight, just a flat egg with a drawn on Pokeball

Looks much better now

The colors and models look so much nicer, hope we get some real news on BDSP and LA soon
@moodycat Yeah, I mean in case of SwSh "Game footage not final" really meant nothing so it's only natural that people are worried

I've also heard rumours that Chingling now runs at 6fps in Legends, instead of 5fps.

Ok they look much better from the old ver, and it seems to fix almost all my problems with it. (Even tho I never played it i'm not a big fan of the chibi style but its starting to grow on me)

It's beyond me how anyone could be excited for these remakes in a year with MH Stories 2 and SMTV, but I get that breaking Pokemon addiction can be hard for some.

@Preposterous
What a ridiculous sentiment, you can be excited for many more than just 2 games in a year Which tbh, never helps our backlog but yeah...

@Preposterous Fun fact: I plan to play all three of them

So the new one makes it look fuzzy, my eyes are bad enough already so even more reason not to get it

Looks much better based on that. I just hope we can see more in an official trailer soon for the overworld of the game (the part I was most concerned about).

Huh? Am I missing something?
Sure the character models look more detailed/polished. However, the backgrounds look blurry as hell and those colors washed out. The original background seems miles better.

@moodycat I get you, but also I know for a fact there's a good bunch of people who will say they like JRPGs and monster catching, but instead of getting these two will pick both versions of the DP remake (and quite possibly a few months later they will complain about the remake being underwhelming).

@moodycat

Joe Merrick has covered for his toxic mods and giest writers for years, so that's really nothing new

like i said people have to have patience. Legends will be improved too. I cannot wait for these games. I like the new improvements. and cannot wait until these great games come out.

@tntswitchfan68
It's not that people are impatient about GameFreak improving Legends. It's that they're worried that the time frame GameFreak has to improve is too short. Remember, the game is being released on January 2022, but the game itself was revealed less than a year before that.

Now we're gonna see those gloriously crappy battle animations in all its OLED glory! YIPPEE!

It does look slightly better, nice to see it less saturated and with some post processing.

Could have always hoped for more improvements but I'm sure there's no time to overhaul everything

Why is no one talking about the Splatoon 3 footage from OLED trailer?

@Snaplocket Because it wasn’t refined to this point up until now..?

@jamesthemagi Look at the top ones. The bottom takes were someone attempting to compensate for the angles and lighting in the scene since it's not direct footage.

It's Pokemon. It literally doesn't matter what they do. Pokemon "fans" wont be happy. lol

Especially not the subset on this website!

It's almost as if the game is still in development...🤔

@jamesthemagi @Bunkerneath I saw these comparisons on Twitter yesterday and I was looking at them reversed, the new blurry washed out ones were the old ones and the new ones added color and detail. I was still thinking the same thing this morning until I got to the video and it said it was the early one.

So people think smearing Vaseline all over the background is an improvement? Yeah the backpack is nicer but after playing Monster Hunter Rise and the MHS2 demo I know Switch can doa whole lot better than Vaseline. I don't get it.

Did people doubt that games are being improved and polished right until the point they go gold? Did they think that companies pay developers to spin around their chairs? First time I hear of that.

It does look like there are some improvements and changes as you would expect, but we are also comparing direct footage to low res blurry footage slapped on a green screen that has gone through multiple editing passes. We will have to wait for new direct footage to do a proper comparison.

You can't say that the textures are improved for example when you can barely make them out from the blurriness.

How I see it:
With the pokemon battle shots, the old one the trainer has a better pose, but worse backpack. The colours are IMO better and not as washed out as the new version. The new one his hat looks like a fuzzy sticker slapped onto his head at a wierd angle after the picture was taken.

In the old pokeball throw the guy is too shiny, but the Pokeball looks beautiful, and the background is sharp. The new one the character model is definitely better with eyebrows in a better position, but the grass is hard to see because how blurry the background is and the shine on the Pokeball just looks wrong.

Overall I don't think I'd call it an improvement due to how blurry they've made it, but you're all more than welcome to disagree with me.

"As you can see, a host of changes have been made..."
No, I can't see. It's pretty much impossible to tell from the OLED trailer.

Dunno if the blurriness is the fog weather condition or the Vaseline smear so many handheld versions of games get to increase the performance/keep the undocked switch from overheating and melting in your hands... I don’t think anything could be as bad as WoFF in handheld, though. Coming from the Vita version, that was a major disappoint since I’ve got a Switch Lite...

@RainbowGazelle You're not looking very hard.

@ModdedInkling Look at Diamond and Pearl? Do not always go by what is first shown.

@tntswitchfan68
I'm not complaining myself. I'm just telling you why people are complaining.

It does look better! But it still looks terrible! The battle screen wasn't what mostly put me off of this remake, it is the overworld. Easy skip since two months later a new vision for the series will release.

But it looks worse now? Was this point about changes during development supposed to highlight an improvement? The most positive change I notice from these screenshots is that there is now slightly more grass on the ground, but the new lighting outweighs the good, as it makes the colours bleed into each other blurrily (in contrast to the version's it is supposed to have improved upon).

The developer tweaks bloom a little bit, blurrs the overall image, and suddenly people think it looks so much better? I finally get, why Nintendo thinks it's fine to constantly underdeliver. With a big enough core customer base so easily dazzled it's a viable method, yes.

Looks a lot nicer to me - wonder how much the overworld visuals were improved?

@ModdedInkling Well, I blame the media for turning this into a circus.

They look night-on identical. The main difference being one set is direct screenshots and the other is images of game footage running on the new Switch screen.

99.9% of the difference is simply how each set of images was captured.

If people seriously think this is some kind of noteworthy improvement from the original images to this new footage then I say they are seriously desperate to see something that basically isn't there.

It definitely looks better. I'm optimistic!

I was excited for this since reveal, but definitely looks a bit polished up now. Man, October and November are gonna be some expensive months.

@Pokester99 Know what I do when I stop liking something? I stop buying it and move on. Or focus on older entries I still enjoy. I will never understand the people who keep buying new titles of something that they have nothing but issues with.

Even more irrational are the people get angry because other people like something they don't.

This honestly looks like a major improvement, and I can only hope that the overworld is receiving the same treatment. In fact, these subtle tweaks alone are making me reconsider holding off on a day 1 purchase...

@rjejr This is indirect footage, where the video's main focus is filters/lighting for the overall commercial rather than for the Switch screen itself. It's only natural for it to look more blurry and washed out when it isn't direct footage. It's also possible the extra bloom/blur was a purposeful change editors overlaid on top of the footage just for the commercial as a marketing tactic. We'll just have to wait for a new trailer to get a proper look at the new tweaks.

@Ulysses Good explanation on why the new graphics look the way they do. Still weird everyone likes the "messed up b/c it wasn't the focus of the ad" graphics over the original. Backpack is certainly an improvement no doubt but I like the dark brown grassy old graphics better.

I'm used to graphics in final games never looking like the years old trailers though, so it doesn't bother me either way, all just comes down to preference.

@Ulysses Yeah I wasn't looking that close to see any bubbles or anything, I only saw these 2 pics on twitter yesterday and then again this morning and all I really saw was dark brown vs blurry.

@tntswitchfan68
Blame the media for exaggerating on it. Blame the people for setting bad and unrealistic expectations. Blame the developers for not optimizing the games onto the Switch properly.

@impurekind
...For one, I'm pretty sure the footage is just superimposed onto the new Switch model as Switch ads have done before (with the Metroid Dread footage being ripped from its reveal, even), but additionally, it's evident that they've changed some models and textures on top of the lighting being tweaked.

@JonComms yes, it really does

I think the old pics look better..

I really like the subtle changes! Wasn’t too fond of the original trailer, but the new screen shots look great!

The moment they finally release a new trailer, I will surely enjoy comparing the old and new footage. The highly-saturated one brings to mind the trainer models of Battle Revolution.

@ModdedInkling exactly.

@jamesthemagi the new one looks much more natural. Look at the trees, the leaves looked ridiculous before.

If you like oversaturated fair enough, many people think that looks cheap and prefer this more natural color palette and lighting. It's also more faithful to the original color palette, which is important because it gives you a very different vibe.

The trees do look a little better in texture, I agree. And their color palette is indeed more in line with originals. Lucas also has more details.
However, the rest of the background is FAR worse. Look at the grass. There is no contrast. The whole background is just a blurry, washout mess. I am reserving judgement until future trailers as these pictures were obtained from "filming" a Switch screen, not actual game footage.
@HenHiro