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Cobretti2 on 13 May 2023
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Soundwave said:

By the way, researching what Sharp has been up to ... it turns out they have just recently started making Sharp OLED displays (and something called XLED too). So maybe we jumped the gun in assuming the display is LCD. Sharp didn't say LCD display, they just said "new kind of display" for a "new game console". 

It would also explain why they may have to do a pilot production test run if they are supplying Switch 2 with the OLED/XLED display, this is something new for Sharp and they probably would have to do a test run as they've never made OLED/XLED panels at the volume Nintendo will need (million+ per month probably). Samsung has been making OLEDs for ages, but Sharp is kinda a newcomer to OLED production, they are just entering the US market for OLED TVs this year for example (will be sold under the Roku brand it looks like). 

Sharp moving in and bumping out Samsung as Nintendo's OLED supplier would also echo Nintendo's history (Samsung makes the OLEDs on the current Switch OLED) ... Nintendo actually made a deal for the Game Boy to use a Citizen screen, but Sharp used their contacts with Nintendo to weasel in and at the last minute steal the contract away from Citizen (Citizen, angry over this then went to Sega and that's where the Game Gear screen came from, lol).

So I wonder if what happened here is Nintendo always goes with Sharp for their portable displays, but went with Samsung for the OLED model since Samsung has more experience with OLEDs ... Sharp probably goes "what the fuck, we can't lose our Nintendo business" and they go back and get the contract done for Switch 2 with possibly an OLED or XLED screen? They maybe offered Nintendo a better price and/or better tech?

Just speculating on that, but that would make sense, if I'm Sharp, I'd be very upset with being cut out of the Switch OLED, a big part of Sharp's business is basically Nintendo portables.

Samsung use to made great OLED for their phones, then I ended up with a Note 8 which apparently used a new form of manufacturing and that has been terrible and suffered screen burn. I haven't kept up as I haven't bothered upgrading my phone yet mainly cause they removed the micro SD slot. 

Hopefully they ironed out the issues and the Switch won't suffer like my phone as I recently upgraded to a OLED model.