Originally Posted by SmokyDave

If the next Nintendo handheld can't exceed the visual delights of Killzone: Mercenaries at launch, that'll suck. You don't need to immediately leap to 1080p. Nothing bums me out more than seeing a new device outperformed by devices 5-6 years older.

You need a decent res on handheld screens because otherwise you end up with the 3DS, where jaggies are fucking everywhere and text is painful to read. A nice high PPI makes everything look better.

Exceeding visuals isn't about resolution. Of course you need a decent res, but as you said, it's also about PPI. While 240p could be considered as decent for the 3DS, 3DS XL on the other hand was a different thing. But I also think that upscale is worse than low res, because it creates artifacts AND jaggies. And I also think that even in 2016 or such, 480p on 5 inch screen will be more than decent.