The article also mentions Nintendo has a time line for perhaps a summer 2016 (July) launch (Japan?).

That indicates to me again that this is a portable or portable centric platform which replaces both the 3DS and Wii U.

Also another interesting bit from the article, Macronix is one of the suppliers expecting orders for the new system.

Macronix makes 3DS cartridges for Nintendo. So say bye bye to discs (most likely), but this has been predicted here for a while, it's one of the few thing Rol and I agree on. 

As you mentioned the fact that the report says that Nintendo announced in March their plan to release NX 2016,while it never did it,makes the report untrustworthy!

Also it point outs that wii u shipments for 2015 so far is 2m...No way it shipped 1.6m  wii  u in Q2(FY 15 Q1) and I don't have to rationalize that...:P

Lastly,the 20m target for  the first year is somewhat excessive...

Because it says what you want to hear?

Don't you see that the report mentions that Nintendo announced in March their plan to release NX in 2016,while they never did that?

Digitimes isn't some stupid fan site or "Nintendo Hut" or something like that. It's a tech industry news outlet, they called a lot of the PS4 and XBox One stuff while they were in development too. They have sources inside parts suppliers. There would be nothing to leak if Nintendo wasn't actively going out and preparing their supply partners to start getting ready for new hardware. 

Did I say otherwise?I just suggested you to be cautious,because the report has controversial parts...

Article seems fake. Only the fact that NX will release in 2016 seems right imo.

Unless they got their hands on information pertaining to the QoL stuff and mistaken it for the NX. Which is highly likely considering, I don't think any console to date has launched with 20 million units, Nintendo can do some daft things but I don't think they will mess up this way. For a historical reference one of the problems with the Gamecube is they over produced one year, having to totally stop production killing customer demand for both retail and end customer. The number alone means that it a customer grade product that is in much bigger market such as Health/Medical.

The non-existant lead time to make games is another thing. There have been articles about a developer turning Nintendo down because of the time frame they wanted it done. And now that they have some HD development under their belt and know good games take time I don't think they would rush it out to market. (Though this is more acedotal evedence then anything.)

And the seems to have a pretty extensive list of part manufatures there but none really deal with CPU/GPU manufacturing, there is a SoC manufacture but with the absence of AMD/IBM/Nvidia/Intel on that list this points to something that doesn't need a powerful CPU or GPU which points to the QoL thing.

Like I said, Digitimes is quite credible, also the list of partners they've cited there in the article do match up with Nintendo, several of them have worked with Nintendo in the past (ie: Macronix, PixArt, etc.). 

Loot of sources transferred that information, that Nintendo will launch NX in 2016. not mentioned that Nintendo said revealed. So that is mistake but no so strange mistake.

It points shipments (produced) 2m Wii U consoles for whole 2015.

Maybe..