Rumor: New 3DS to stream Wii U games!

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MikeRox said:

sc94597 said:

The Wii U gamepad's resolution is 854 x 480 which translates to a pixel density of 158 ppi. The new 3DS has a pixel density of about 120 ppi or 96 ppi (for the XL.) 

That isn't a huge difference. 

And it's already a noticible step down from the TV screen output. A quarter of that resolution will really impact on what you can see/read on the screen far more than the PPI difference will make.

PPI of a 100" 1080p TV is much lower than a 32" 1080p TV. However resolution is the same and so the content translates fine across either size.

32" 480p TV has nowhere near the clarity however of a 32" 1080p screen. This is the kind of difference we are talking, just look at all the complaints about games such as Dead Rising on the XB 360 when people were trying to play them on their SD screens but the HUD/Game Text was no good for this.

PPI differences are the main cause of not being able to read the text (it is scaled to the point that it is blurry.) If I had  - say - a 720p image (remember most WIi U games are rendered at 720p, not 1080p) on a 32" telvesion and a 100' television you'll notice the same blurry image that prevents you from reading the text.  A 480p image on a Wii U gamepad is going to be less blurry than a 720p image on a 100 inch television. 

Resolution isn't something special in itself. Pixel density is the important factor here. Now if your argument was that less could fit on the screen because of the difference in scaling (aspect ratio) between the resolutions of the screens, then yeah I'd accept that. But your argument was entirely about image quality.

And duh, because the 480p 32" tv has a lower PPI than the 1080p tv.