Raziel123 said:
You said the pad displays at 480p? hm. wikipedia says screen size is 6.2 inches? if that's so then even 480p is still good enough. Ofc that won't matter for people who want to play it on TV instead of the pad...in that case 720p isn't enough. But i won't be using my future Wii U on the TV... 720p (or rather, the different-aspect-ratio equivalent of it) was good enough for the old small monitors and TVs we used (4:3 @ 1024x768) in the old days anything bigger needs more pixels if you're not gonna sit so far that you'll be squinting. |
It's more likely the TV rather than the resolution that's making it look terrible. A decent 1080p display would actually upscale the image to 1080p for you reducing the difference.
My PS3 games look way better on my 1080p Panasonic plasma than they did on the 32" 720p Sony Bravia even if the native resolution was the same, it was just a much better quality panel with better colours as well as the higher resolution. This means comparing 720p on one display with 1080p on another is actually an apples to apples comparison. I'd suggest trying the PS3 on your monitor, but monitors don't have the same scaling capabilities as TVs (this is a big part of the reason PC monitors are so much cheaper than TVs)
480p looks lower resolution on a 6'2" Screen centimetres from your face than 720p does on a 42" TV from across the room. The Wii U pad is pixellicious whilst the TV a few foot away there's not a jaggy in sight on games like Mario 3D World.
You also sit really close to a PC monitor which makes the resolution more noticible. But the quality of the display device you are using makes a much bigger difference than simply the number of pixels on the screen.
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