I’ve found that forcing games to run at above native resolutions can help quite a bit. The aliasing that happens at the native res can be pretty bad even with high AA settings depending on the implementation.

Also, the deck tends to have GPU headroom due to the awful CPU performance so you can do it for free usually.

It's not just that. Many modern games are simply not designed for low resolution. 1080p is the barely minimum for them and higher resolutions would be even better.

There will be too many objects on screen. When u shrink it to 720p, it's simply not viable anymore as the objects and textures have too few pixels to represent.

Sounds like more of a game problem. The screen is about 200dpi which is pretty good. As more games test on the deck that should improve. I tried playing some steam board games on there, the text is readable but on a small screen it's not a good experience. It worked well with an external screen.

It's a tradeoff between cost, performance, portability, battery life and resolution. They've done a nice job in my opinion.

I've been experimenting with streaming to my deck from my PC, rendering at 1440p. Compression artifacts aside, it looks quite good.

Games don't even work well on my older full-sized TV. The UIs seem geared towards high resolutions and people with really good eyesight.

They pair pretty well with Nreal Air glasses - now if only I could write a driver to make the screen stay in space rather than moving with my head.