After reading various negative comments about the DSi LL/XL's massive screen somehow reducing image quality I had but one thought: Are people sincerely this fucking stupid?  I really though this “screen stretching” dilemma was confined to Luddites and children wholly ignorant of technology, but the numbers of mouth-breathing retards chanting this mantra says otherwise.

Pay attention idiots, for this issue will be settled forever, and you will have to discover some other trivial technical matter to obfuscate with your ignorance.

Have you ever seen a 20” screen?  Have you ever seen a 40” screen?  Did the 40” screen appear smudged and distorted?  No?  Well that must mean that enlarging a screen has fuck all to do with how the image looks.  Were you to exercise that sedentary brain of yours, you might realize that images are distorted only when they change pixel resolution, not screen size.

Is this that fucking hard to understand?  How else can I respond to this absurd fallacy floating around every discussion of this device except with hateful, seething contempt?  Not with polite humility – that only works on people smart enough to remain silent about their own ignorance.

Off-Topic: You won't last long here.

"Off-Topic: You won't last long here."

Yeah. You're right, hush_hermit, but your language is piss poor, to say the least.

Indeed. While you make a good point, you shouldn't resort to using that kind of language. Unless you like bans, I guess.

An image in native 400x300 will look disorted in a 800x600 screen, don't get what you're saying. There won't be a change in resolution for DSi XL, just a pixel growth, thus the anomalities.

dude...seriously? you fail so hard...he JUST explained that:

if the screen RESOLUTION is different it will seem distorted..if the resolution is NOT changed...then it won't seem distorted.

you're shitting me right?, right? seriouisly?

you decided NOT to read the first post?.

I understand why he wrote what he wrote and why he wrote it the way he wrote it

I'm don't think I've heard anyone claim anything about image distortion on the new DSi screen, rather relatively poorer image quality, analogous to zooming in too close on a digital pic.

Take a 320*240 image and display it on a 14 inch screen and perhaps it will look fine but put it on progressively larger screens and eventually the appearance of the image will (does) suffer. Same thing if you hook a Wii up to a 60 inch screen, the image will not look as good as it does on a 37 inch screen. The 480 resolution standard was conceived at a time when no one considered the possibility of a 60 inch TV. Now with the DS we are talking about much smaller screens but they are typically viewed much closer than the average TV. It is possible that the DS's resolution is not optimal for such (relatively) large screens.

Now we aren't talking about poorer image quality per se but you are getting a closer look at the imperfections that exist in the image. Having not seen the new DSi XL in person though i can't comment on whether it is actually a problem or not.

The screen is for people who need the larger pixels. That's why computers still have an 800x600 setting (at least as far as I know).

The people have the right idea when going about these things, what they are wrong about is  how significant the distortion may be. The resolution the DS puts out is more than enough to accommodate an image on a 4.2 inch screen without any noticable effects. If you look at games running on the DSiXL they look just as good as when running on a DS, DSL, or DSi, with the exception of the flaws these consoles had being more noticeable due to the larger screen size.