Topic: Switch 2 Lite incoming. Thoughts?

Well if it it doesnt come with 1080p then I don't think I'll be buying. I'd rather trade battery life than go back to 720p.

If you just want a smaller more power efficient switch 2, just go get a switch 1

Lots of games you run on Switch 2 are in 720p mode like Switch 1 games without an update and games like Cyberpunk 2077 in their performance mode at 40fps. Also the Switch Lite has a pixel density of about 267 per inch where as Switch 2 is 279 per inch so there isn't much in it with the original lite model and the perceived resolution and sharpness is actually better on the Switch Lite because of that smaller screen. Personally I tend to hold my Switch Lite at the same position as my Switch OLED so benefit from sharper visuals but with a smaller screen.

The problem with making it a 720p display is that, even if a game targets that, it's currently getting upscaled to 1080p, so you'd have to downscale it again, giving you two needlessly lossy conversions unless you go and change the game's code to handle the new resolution.

This is already a problem with some Switch 1 games targeting sub-native resolutions running under backwards compatibility, giving a smeary "Vaseline screen" effect because of that extra scaling step.

It's not like 1080p screens are that expensive or anything, either. It's features like 120 Hz and VRR that are making the Switch 2 pricey, and those aren't things that could easily be dropped without breaking certain games.

Nintendo have never changed the display resolution of a handheld device mid-generation, because it introduces these kinds of problems, and I can't see them changing that now.