Why is Sprite Kit Text Resolution Slightly Pixelated?

Question

I was thinking of putting adding a UITableView to a SKView, but I read the answer here which mentioned it would be 'crude': Sprite Kit Table View

I tested it, and the text in the tableview is slightly pixelated. Out of curiousity, I also made a simple stand-alone SKLabelNode and noticed it was not retina-quality either.

My question(s) is why is the text in these cases not retina? Is there a way I can make them sharper as if they were rendered by UIKit? What is the underlying concept I need to understand with respect to text and Sprite Kit?

Answer 1

My simulator was set to test using the iPad, not iPad retina. D'oh