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Soundwave on 24 September 2015
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spemanig said:
Soundwave said:

Screen could be 1280x720 (HD), some games like those with XB1 complexity could just run at 960x540. 99% of people wouldn't know any better, 99% of people who played Call of Duty (the most popular "HD" game from last gen) couldn't tell that it was running at a sub-720p resolution on their 50-inch 1080P displays. 

I'd bet most Vita owners aren't aware that a good chunk of their games run at sub native resolutions too. 

The remote play feature on the Vita though at least to me shows that PS4 graphics can look quite nice even on the Vita's 540p display. A lot of its depends on not using a display that's complete shit too. It the display is half way decent, most people won't know any better. 

Nintendo uses such terrible quality LCD displays though it's like from something out of your grandma's $99 portable Wal-Mart DVD player from 2003. 


Because, of all companies, Nintendo is the one who would spend the extra money providing a more expensive, tablet-sized screen, only to have those games not even use the boosted resolution. Nintendo, who had no problem letting thr 3DS use the crappy screen it uses in order to meet their priority of a 3D screen instead.

Right.

No. And with the 540p screen, it goes right back to Nintendo not having a product that is seen as "superior to the competition," because while people may not notice the different in a sub-resolution game, they can read the difference between a high end tablet marketed as having a 1080p screen with a 4K camera, and a gaming tablet with a 540p screen and an unmentionable camera.

They'll use a 3DS/XL-sized 540p/720p glasses-free 3D screen for the top screen, which will be far less pricey than a 720p giant tablet screen, and a lower res bottom screen, likely 540p. The NXDS, from a hardware POV, will be very iterative of the N3DS. Likely a real second analog nub. Definitely no major revamp like a gaming tablet. Again, the major change is happening in the firmware, not the hardware. Games like Smash 4 and HWL are practice for what will soon be every game on NX.


Most people can't reeeeeally tell screen resolution. As long as you use a decent quality screen, which nowadays is cheap (thanks Apple). 

A Vita screen looks as good as some 1080P displays to the average joe. As long as it looks "nice and shiny" they will think it's a high resolution. And a chip that powerful could legitimately run Wii U+ visuals at full 1080x720 too. A good 1280x720 panel will have a nice pixel density at 6.5 inches or lower and most people won't notice the games that are running sub-native resolution. I have an 8-inch Samsung 1280x720 res tablet and HD content still looks great on it.

Almost no iPad/iPhone games run at native resolution either, nobody really notices. People will notice the graphics are really impressive though and that the engines are the same next-gen engines on their modern consoles. 

I don't think they're using dual screen, but I'm not going over that again, I think we've done that to death. I think in general NX will be a complete break from the Wii-DS era. It was fun while it lasted, but very bitter at the end probably by Nintendo's standards and all these cycles eventually come to an end. 

To be honest I wouldn't be shocked if NX is more radical than even what I'm proposing. I think Nintendo internally is going through some radical upheaval. For example I don't think Mr. Miyamoto and some of the older guard were too happy about the smartphone change, but they got voted down by internal pressure. That really does explain his sour comments towards casuals a few months ago, because he knows he ultimately failed to keep that audience for Nintendo.