Fucks sake *face palm*

Who cares? PS4 and XOne which are still selling don't do 1080p/60 in every game. The upscale too depending on the graphics effects used.

Nintendo made a great compromise with the Switch on price and performance. You won't get any better deal anywhere. There is not a single game running on those Chinese mobile phones which matches Zelda BotW or MK8+ graphics.

Those who want best graphics are playing on a PC anyway. The Switch will be there second and favorite device "to go".

At the end its the games which make the difference. And Nintendo has shown with every generation that CPU/GPU power doesn't matter as much as the genius of the developers...

Whenever I use the phrase "lack of empathy" its usually around some political or social issue. Seems that is a big problem in gaming as well. The OP raises valid concerns about low resolutions on his 4k then some of you clowns start referencing 240p on a fucking DS. Are you serious?

Yes it is only about the screen.

There is benefit to having a higher resolution display even if you are not natively rendering it at that resolution, mobile has been doing it for years.
I have a 1440P display on my phone, highly doubt many games exceed 720P though.

Dedicated gaming device is not same like phone that is bascicly mini PC, where you have two cameras, videos... What exactly benefits would be for Switch to have 1080p screen if games don't runs at native resolution!? 

... A phone is more closely related to the Switch than a PC. Not just with the software stack, but the hardware stack as well.

As for the higher resolution... Having the GUI, Text etc' at a higher resolution generally doesn't take a big toll on performance, but can dramatically improve clarity, contrary to popular belief not all of a games various assets actually output at a displays native resolution.

But the real answer to your question is: Upscaling.

You are right making a switch, which releases 3 and a half years early and is marketed as a home console and is at least half as powerfull, proberbly worse, much worse for resolution when you start counting memory bandwith and memory amount...

it just makes the switch extremely scary to buy into unless you are buying it as a handheld but many people are seeing it as a "can play however you want" console but when you get 720p or even lower resolutions its going to look like a blurry mess on most larger 4k televisions when for almost the same price you can buy a ps4 pro right now or a xbox scorpio at the end of the year.

Its not a handheld and its a pretty underpowered home console, at least he wii u was more powerfull then the ps3 and xbox360 when it came out at the end of their lifecycles.

Disagree, Switch is clearly on 1st place just dedicated gaming device, phone on other hand is multifunctional device same like PC, modern phone has almost all functionalities like PC.

That doesn't really matter for games, especially for dedicated gaming device that main point is to play games.

Just upscaling doesn't change anything, it still would run at 720p resolution.

Your problem is you're not playing the games as Nintendo intended them. When using a Nintendo home console you need to be as far away from the TV so that it seems you're looking at a tiny handheld screen. That will definitely solve your blur problem.

Don't complain about Nintendo when you're not even using their devices properly.

Nintendo is smart. If they released an updated console, they probably would've been near the end of their rope in the home console business (not the portable). They make consoles that make a profit rather than strategically looking for the widest possible audience with all parties involved and being competitive. This handheld will be a slow burn. Most of the most powerful games will be 900p at best, but the third party games will most likely be 720p. Nintendo wasn't even trying there. At least they are making the effort to court third parties. Nintendo is a very headstrong company so it will take time for them to position themselves to where they need to be. They only do things on their own terms.