| tbone51 said:
Found on gaf... http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=953194
Sankei Biz: Sharp to provide Nintendo with free-form display (Rumour)
According to Sankei Biz, Sharp (already providing Nintendo with the 3D screen of the 3DS) will provide Nintendo with a free-form display for their next handheld (they mention the 3DS or a successor) or maybe their QoL device. It's all a rumour, but quite credible if Sankei Biz is to be believed. From the looks of it, mass production for that type of screen (not made just for Nintendo, it's one of Sharp's own projects) was supposed to start in 2017, but Sharp managed to speed things up and production will actually start in 2016. Apparently, Nintendo are experimenting with some sort of donut-shapred display. If that free-form display is for the next handheld, I doubt we're going to see it before late 2016/early 2017 at the earliest. Same for QoL. What's more, costs for such screen will probably be quite high, and we know Nintendo like their components cheap in order to maximise profits on hardware sales... So who knows what it's all about for now. Source Thanks StreetsAhead for the help with translation :)
Prototype for Free Form
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They wouldn't begin production in 2016 only to wait an entire year or more until the holidays of 2017 in order to launch, that wouldn't make any sense.
If Nintendo has already been experimenting and prototyping the technology, and Sharp pushed the mass production into 2016, then it is likely it will launch in Japan in 2016, and Europe in the beginning quarter of 2017. Although this looks more like Nintendo is making a spedometer for a car, not a handheld system.
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