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[SNG32]

Do you think Nintendo will continue with a 720p screen or bump the switch 2 to 1080 or hell maybe 1440p?

 

[Wooxsvan]

1080

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

8 inch "fancy" screen

1080 @ 120

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

4k and the games will have Ray Tracing...no i'am just mocking...1080p

 

[Little Mac]

720p @ 120hz when portable.

1080p when docked.

I just pray it’s oled.

You all forget this is Nintendo. They could launch it with a 480p screen and half of the industry will be like …

 

[scarlet0pimp]

720 surly.
720 is easier on battery life and it looks fine on small screen which I expect will be a similar size to the existing model.
Steam deck is massive and really loud I don't think Nintendo will want the switch to be like that.

 

[Drell]

Is more than 720p really necessary in portable mode? It's already HD enough for a portable screen and it will allow the (probably) weak hardware to perform not too badly and have a decent battery life.

What's important for me is that it is able to perform well in 1080p minimum in docked mode.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Hopefully OLED, 720 is fine if it means more performance.

 

[tr1p1ex]

720p. 1080p doesn't gain you much on a ~7" screen but sucks up more battery life and more processing power and costs more $$$.

 

[Bojji]

900p.

 

[Zannegan]

Is more than 720p really necessary in portable mode? It's already HD enough for a portable screen and it will allow the (probably) weak hardware to perform not too badly and have a decent battery life.

What's important for me is that it is able to perform well in 1080p minimum in docked mode.

I mean, Valve didn't think full 1080 was necessary for the Deck, so 720p is arguably fine in that size. I'd be disappointed though.

With that said, if the screen gets any bigger, I'd say 1080 is a necessary upgrade.

 

[LakeOf9]

Hopefully 720p, for battery life's sake

 

[Robb]

I’m not sure how big of a difference visually 1080p would be on a screen that small. If having 720p and a significant boost in battery is the other option I hope they go for 720p.

If I’m playing something where I want improved visuals I’d never play in handheld mode anyway.

 

[Xyphie]

There's no reason to ship with less than than 1080p in the era of temporal reconstruction. It'll give cross-gen and existing Switch games a huge boost by just running them in the docked preset aswell.

 

[Guerilla Munch]

720p on a portable screen will look exquisite based on the rumored horsepower boost

 

[Fake]

720p.

Native 720p will be much easier to get with the upgrade configuration.

 

[Victor Omega]

With Nintendo, always go with the lowest, cheapest option.

Nintendo's hardware philosophy in choosing lower tech is a difficult discipline than one might think.

Going cutting edge spec is easy.

780

 

[vaibhavpisal]

1080p is too much for handhelds, no?

It can go either way.

Hopefully its a good screen, OLED or at least LCD with 100% srgb and bright.

 

[Majormaxxx]

ten atey because the new gpu will be better

 

[MadchesterManc]

720p@60Hz is way more likely than 1080p@120hz for a portable like the Switch, Nintendo should at least make sure VRR is supported tho

 

[Azelover]

I'm expecting 720p..

 

[Woopah]

720 8 inch LCD, so they cna keep this thing below $449.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Wait, what happened to 2017’s “lol my fucking entry level Chinese Android phone has a fucking 1080p screen in fucking 2017”?

Anyway, watch this be 1080p and people be like “lol my fucking phone has a 4K OLED screen!”

 

[CuNi]

1080p, but not for gaming.
Most likely for Home-Screen and maybe game UIs, Text etc. but games will still be rendered internally at 720p.
I'd assume 30fps handheld and 60fps docked.

But I'm just pulling stuff out of my ass. I'd assume it'll be something completely different that what I just said.

 

[cireza]

It is going to be 1080p to make sure that Switch games don't scale correctly through BC. This will make for an authentic Nintendo experience.

 

[Bonfires Down]

If it’s 8 inch then it better be more than 720p. That’s more than 50% larger screen area over the OG Switch.

 

[Chastten]

I'm gonna guess 720p. For gaming on a small screen that's good enough for most people and it saves on costs and batterylife.

 

[Mercador]

It should be 1080p120, it will be 720p60

 

[Codes 208]

720p @ 120hz when portable.

yeah this is the rumor i dont believe in. The current consoles are struggling to hit 120fps consistently so I have to imagine why people believe the company that struggles to hit 30-60fps would even bother with specs that lign up around what the steam deck is

 

[mcjmetroid]

720p. 100%.

You think if Valve won't do it, the switch will?

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I've never really thought the portable screen needed more dots. I assume 720p

 

[Mr Hyde]

I hope the screen is at least of the quality of the ROG Ally, with VRR support at 120hz. Very good screen on that one, very crisp and clear. And they need to have OLED from the get go, but will probably cheap out so they can sell a revision further down the road.

 

[Dr.D00p]

It will be 1080p to allow for perfect upscaling to 4K with DLSS, when docked...

 

[Griffon]

720p on an 8 inch or smaller screen is more than good enough.

What we really need is 120hz and VRR.

 

[Bernoulli]

1080p and 100 more for the OLED

 

[magnumpy]

I think OLED might not be used to keep costs down. of course there is then the possibility of an "upgraded" OLED model, of course this all just speculation... D:

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[shamoomoo]

900p.

Cure you! I was going to say the same thing.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

seven twenty

 

[Codes 208]

720p. 100%.

You think if Valve won't do it, the switch will?

People are setting themselves up for disappointment. Like when the og switch specs were finally revealed to be the first iteration of tegra and not the second

 

[N0S]

It better be 4k docked

 

[StereoVsn]

I think it will be 1080p. DLSS is to be the big feature and reconstructing from like 480p to 720p has to be pretty painful image quality wise.

Plus decent quality 1080p screens are fairly cheap now days. Of course this is Nintendo so I would t be surprised if it’s 720p again.

 

[winjer]

Probably 720p + DLSS. And 1080p + DLSS in docked mode.
Although with dynamic resolution, these values will vary a lot.

 

[Three]

I would not at all be surprised if it was still a 720p screen and they concentrated only on upping docked res in games.

 

[tkscz]

900p.

Honestly I can see it being a 900p screen.

 

[Zannegan]

I think it will be 1080p. DLSS is to be the big feature and reconstructing from like 480p to 720p has to be pretty painful image quality wise.

Plus decent quality 1080p screens are fairly cheap now days. Of course this is Nintendo so I would t be surprised if it’s 720p again.

If DLSS really is a key feature of the hardware like we assume, then it would make sense to go full HD for the screen. They'd then have the option to render internally at a lower resolution and upscale even with the restricted performance of portable mode.

If we're wrong though, and they're relying on raw performance to hit resolutions, then 720 might be their best bet.

 

[StereoVsn]

If DLSS really is a key feature of the hardware like we assume, then it would make sense to go full HD for the screen. They'd then have the option to render internally at a lower resolution and upscale even with the restricted performance of portable mode.

If we're wrong though, and they're relying on raw performance to hit resolutions, then 720 might be their best bet.

Yep, and hopefully DLSS is going to be a big part of the new Switxh.

 

[Zannegan]

Yep, and hopefully DLSS is going to be a big part of the new Switxh.

I've been hoping so hard, and it makes so much sense, especially with NVidia as their partner...

...but, Nintendo gonna Nintendo, so who knows?

 

[Shifty1897]

900p portable, 4k docked. Obviously most games won't render at 4k internally.

 

[squidilix]

900p portable, 4k docked. Obviously most games won't render at 4k internally.

900p seems to be perfect for portable. Not too low, not too high for ressource.

4K output is easy to predict... But at best, this will be 1440p/30fps internally for simple games.

IDK if DLSS will be here, but at least 900p internally DLSS Quality seems to be "ok" once reconstruct at 4k