I agree. I can't personally confirm this but that's maybe related to this?

 

Very possible. I guess we will find out with the next firmware update that fixes it and the webkit vulnerability.

 

So the rumors of Sub HD at least on portable mode were true, it's an interesting finding, I thought Zelda bow always was capped at 720p on portable mode

 

I always wondered why the game does look so blurry and foggy at times, and other times it looks crystal clear. They seem to use a really bad scaling algorithm when reducing the resolution. On Wii-U the graphics often look extremely bad, ugly and washed out and this seems to caused by this internal rendering resolution change.

And in Karikaro, when the game runs at 15 FPS at night, I alwyas thought to myself why they don't scale down shadows and light effects. Most of the shaders used look bad anyway, so these could be optimized to prioritize speed. In shader programming, minimal changes can have a very large impact on performance and resource usage and really good programmers can get things looking better while reducing the hardware load at the same time.

 

Just going to say that it's nothing new in the game developing industry. For example The Witcher 3 renders at 1080p on the PS4 but has dynamic resolution scaling for the Xbox One version it renders somewhere between 900p to 1080p depending on the workload of the GPU. It's all about keeping those frames locked and it's really only useful in fast paced games. I personally don't think Nintendo has the algorithm perfected yet so it could be the saving grace for the frame rate issues for the game if an update comes out. 343 Industries did a very good job in using this on Halo 5 and probably because of Microsoft's support. Halo 5 is incredibly smooth and when this become more crowded on the screen the engine is very smart on what to drop pixels from to keep frames locked at 60fps while keeping the drop in visual quality not noticeable. Say the player is driving a warthog through some heavy foliage without dynamic scaling the frames would have shuddered to 40fps but with dynamic scaling the engine scales the foliage at 810p while using motion blur to mask the drop in pixels.

 

They should better scale down resource-heavy shadows, lighting and shader effects. The game sometimes looks really bad, everything gets grayish and foggy very often, environments are often covered in smog like in a big Asian city. A hope these are not side-effects of the resolution scaling.

In my opinion the resolution should be set to a fixed crisp and clear 1080p and everything else should be cut down to allow a stable frame rate.

 

As much as I would like to waddle an e-Pen around with benchmark scores and the likes, I'd take FPS over resolution any day. A smooth, stable-ish low FPS is a lot better than fluctuating FPS regardless of average FPS. While an average/median 60 fps or even more is nice, it is a pain if the curve is from a nice 2 fps slideshow to 144 fps "perfect score". Hopefully they find a fix for this, as the hardware itself most likely won't be upgraded in the near future..

 

As long as it plays Zelda at a reasonable framerate. I'm chill.

 

??? i think your confusing what anti aliasing is. there is no blur, maybe you mean dof?
only blur is with post prosessing aa, which is not very common.
and scaling effect and shadow details would be a terrible idea, res is the least noticable because of good upscaling.