 Hey everyone, what if I told you the screen on this system when it's a switch pro at 720p Which is bigger than this could still be a retina display? Now what is a retina display? Well, that is a screen Resolution that is at a certain DPI level that leads you to be unable to tell Individual pixels now it sounds crazy to say 720p could ever be a retina display But we'll talk about this in a moment first I gotta remind you we are giving away a copy of monster hunter rise along with two twenty dollar Nintendo switch PlayStation or Xbox gift cards. It'll be user choice on that. That's three total winners this month head down to the description or the pinned comment to enter now The Nintendo switch pro is coming out Supposedly either this year late this year or early 2022 current reports have it slated for mass production this summer So coming out this holiday, however, obviously could be delays Maybe a certain game they want to launch with it Breath of the Wild 2 isn't ready to go yet. They want that to launch early next year Which would be interesting since Breath of the Wild 2 would then like bump up with Pokemon Arceus But whatever that's not my problem to worry about having too many good games coming around around the same time Is that really a problem besides to like my wallet? I don't know But what's interesting about the arguments over the switch pro is that one of the main Elements that people are kind of upset with assuming all the reports are true Is that the screen that they are upgrading to the OLED panel? It's only 720p and that has some people really really pissed off and I gotta say I don't think you should be pissed off I don't think you should be upset and the switch detractors out there that are Lolol in a switch by the way, they're already those same people already laugh at this device as it is So should we really even take them seriously? They're not even consumers that would buy a switch even if it had a 1080p panel But should we really be upset about that now? I've went through various retina calculators online to try to figure out Is it possible that 720p could be retina because after all it only puts out about 209 dpi at a seven inch screen well It turns out that yes, actually there is a certain distance that 720p becomes Retina and that distance at seven inches diagonal is 16 inches now That doesn't sound like much, but let's actually take a look at it. So I don't have an actual Take measure. I can't find it right now, but I do have this. This is a channel That is supposed to be to hide cables on a wall and according to the package It is 14 inches long So I'm gonna kind of like put it in my mouth and go sideways here and show you Roughly what 16 inches looks like if you were to play your switch at that distance on a switch pro to get the Retina display action. So here we go That's actually quite far when you think about it And most people aren't gonna like hold the switch out like this when they're playing and that that really wasn't what I was doing I just couldn't show it on camera perfectly But really it's about the same distance of if I take my hand on my hands Rest them on my desk while I'm sitting in my chair Which by the way my chair is cranked up all the way so that my legs are hitting the top of the table And I look down that's about 16 inches. So from this playing angle It would be a retina display for me on a switch pro. However, let's be real Most people don't necessarily play like that. They play like this hands hands on our armrest holding it like this Here you've got maybe, you know, eight to ten maybe 12 inches of distance at most Some people lay down in a bed where they might be like this. You know, basically the Hands resting on a table 16 inch perfect retina display Distance is something that does factually exist on switch But also let's just be real a lot of people are gonna get it So that is where some of the controversy comes in where people are saying screw this We should have 1080p because 1080p will get us to that 300 dpi or better, which is what Apple rates retina They won't even bother to talk about retina at under that Likely because they realize, you know, if people have a retina display, you know Hold it right here. Even though technically the distance from me to my monitor is more than 16 inches I mean, I even reach my arms fully out. I can't touch my monitor So I don't actually need the 300 dpi here to not see pixels. Although this is a bigger screen So take that for what you will it's only 1080p and I can see pixels on it But I mean again bigger display. So here's the thing I Honestly think that people are overblowing the 720p thing and it's actually the perfect choice for Nintendo on this platform and there's a couple reasons for it one We need to first talk about how important is resolution in the first place So if you look at this video here, which is put up a year ago I'll put a link to the full video down in the description a couple years back I was like back in 2018 when the iPhone XR was coming out, which is not a 1080p screen It is an iPhone that has an 828p screen and they pull put it up against the picophone or picophone Which has a 1080p screen and only costs $300 because a lot of the lol switch arguments gonna be lol You could get 1080p and you know a super cheap phone, right? Well, here's the thing They compare in a blind test to random people random consumers It everything's completely taped off. You can't tell what's an iPhone. What's the picophone? There's no brand bias and one by one by one by one literally everyone chooses the iPhone XR and Again, it's not because of the brand name. It's because of the screen They were debating which one had a better screen You would figure the picophone has a higher resolution and higher pixel density and more like a retina display For a phone would have one, but it didn't the iPhone XR did why better colors Okay better colors better contrast What do a bit more vivid picture and a more preferred viewing experience and everyone swore that that was a 1080p screen? But that's not the case. It turned out that people were choosing the lower resolution Screen because what they preferred were the actual colors So technically a switch pro is gonna be seven inches will technically be lower resolution than this one at 720p Because it's a bigger screen But this is a LCD panel versus OLED that OLED panels gonna have better color accuracy better whites deeper blacks and also by the way Hello, it's gonna be more vibrant. It's gonna have better contrast. It's going to be a better picture quality It's across the board going to look fundamentally better than this despite not upping the resolution So it's already going to feel like a big leap to many people and a much more pleasing experience to our eyes Just by the fact that it's an OLED panel and thus going to be more accurate and more pleasing and more vibrant and all that jazz So then why would they just go with 1080p? It could still be all that but also be 1080p Well 1080p obviously has more power draw. So let's start there One way for Nintendo to maximize battery life on a more powerful system That's gonna need more battery for the components is to find ways to cut battery elsewhere cutting battery in From 1080p to 720 saves them roughly 20% of battery use from the resolution change That is actually 20% that's great that could lead to longer battery life Now that's obviously an easy argument to make But what about an argument about the games because obviously games would look better at 1080p, right? Hmm. Yes and no. So if there was enough power under the hood in handheld mode to run games at a native native 1080p Absolutely, you're just costing yourself resolution for no reason and there probably will be enough power under the hood to run games that are native 1080p Well docked. Here's the thing most games and handled on this switch right here do not hit 720p Even from Nintendo Yoshi's Crafted World Fire Emblem 3 houses so many examples from Nintendo let alone the Witcher 3 Doom except that do not come close to hitting 720p more than a frame here or there and this matters because What we really want is enough power under the hood to get these games to run at a very good frame rate and a consistent 720p locked resolution That should be our goal to expect a leap from games that are running like the Witcher 3 as low as 360p to just run at 1080 No, it's gonna look even worse because you're blowing up a 360p image to a 1080p monitor It's going to look even worse You don't want that that that big of a change from resolution Output to resolution of the screen. It's going to look horrible. So It's a compromise. It's a compromise Okay, now there are some things that will be better naturally a lot of this is on developers But text size so text size in the game like Fire Emblem 3 houses very very tiny on this screen However on a slightly bigger screen that text will be slightly bigger and thus more readable on a 1080p screen It would be smaller now again that isn't the hardware's problem That's a developer problem developers should be like making dynamic text and making it Resized based on resolution output that is definitely something that should be happening And for some reason some developers just don't do it They lock in that text size that works on a big TV, but doesn't work on a little screen I still to this day don't know why developers do that, especially like Nintendo own developers that literally just make games for the switch Why I could see like, you know like doom or something that's multi-platform and you know that comes here And maybe they don't have things that mess with the text size Nintendo games to me don't have an excuse, but still it kind of proves a point That 720p is fine 720p is great 720p is a smart choice 1080p would just draw more power from the system while the system wouldn't even have the ability to run these games Indie games not include not you know indie games are kind of their own their own field Or maybe they could hit 1080p and they would benefit from it But AAA games and Nintendo games would not benefit from this 1080p Screen that everyone thinks should exist in here guys. This isn't a next-gen switch And I think that's another thing we just need to accept this switch coming out might be even two or three times more powerful than this switch It's still not a next-generation leap. It's just not Be happy that a 360p game like the Witcher 3 can now run at native 720 That's what we should be excited about Don't worry about the fact that oh my god. It's only 720 in 2021 Let me just tell you the people that are doing this They're not Nintendo fans. Not only that Nintendo fans. They weren't interested in the switch anyways They're looking for any reason to laugh at it and while we're we know while we're in this world of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and You know obviously like the 3090 graphics cards people are all about that 4k and that's great But guys I know there's phones. There's phones that have 4k screens. I get it. I Get it, but if you took a 4k phone and you put it next up to a 1080p phone that has better colors and better contrast People are gonna choose that 1080p phone There are things that matter more than resolution and Thankfully we're getting that with an OLED panel. So thank you Nintendo. We actually sell this back on Vita by the way Vita had a 540p OLED panel and then they released a slim model that had a like a 500p or whatever LCD and Man the colors and everything were just so much better than that old that all that panel at 540p looks good today And that's lower resolution than what we're gonna get on switch So what are we worried about? Absolutely nothing. That's what I say. Alright folks until we have some new news until Nintendo announces switch, bro. I am Nintendo Prime. I'm just kidding We're gonna have videos besides that hopefully some other good news coming today for Nintendo and other platforms Actually, there's a lot of news going on other platforms. I feel like it might be time for a prime news episode We have we have a lot to talk about with these other platforms Sony and Microsoft are killing it in the news right now. They some big things are happening So thank you so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video