Will the next Nintendo handheld have a HD screen?

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Soundwave said:

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The thing is though, to produce a portable that spits out Wii U grade graphics or better, at 720p, would require Nintendo to invest in high end hardware for the first time in, what, 15 years? It's just hard to see them going all out when they haven't for two generations. And there's also battery life to consider, and Nintendo's penchant for making things needlessly expensive with non-standard parts.

Depends on the game ... my little Samsung tablet that's a bargain basement piece of sub $200 piece of tech can run games at 720p just fine. It won't run Far Cry 3 at 720p obviously but Sim City or Clash of Clans? Sure. Even a dated iPhone 5s chip, something Nintendo could have for peanuts could drive a 720p display with graphics considerably better than the Vita. 

Just because you have a 720p display doesn't mean every game has to run at 720p. I'm going to guess most people here have a 1080p TV ... well they've been playing sub-1080p games on their TVs for ages (shudders at the Wii era). When you play a Virtual Console game on 3DS from your DS you're running games at a lower resolution than the native screen. Ditto for GBA/SNES games on the Wii U tablet that look just fine. 

The 3D display on the 3DS is what's a huge battery/performance hog. Remove that and you can get a cheaper HD screen that's easy on battery life. No one cares about 3D these day anyways (you might want to write an actual story for Avatar 2, Mr. Cameron), and for those who do there's always a possibility to release a 3D version later (why not, Nintendo releases 3-4 different revisions of each handheld anyway, might as well have one that's tangiably different). 

So you predict the screen will be 720p, but most games won't be, kind of like Wii U is 1080p capable but most games render below this?

Also, out of curiosity, what level of graphics (outside of resolution) do you expect from it? Wii U level? 360 level? Vita level?