Sharp has revealed it's making screens for a new gaming console, and the company has a history of manufacturing parts for Nintendo.
Earlier this week, Sharp CEO Robert Wu said in an earnings call that the manufacturer would produce a new LCD screen for a gaming console launching at some point before March 2024. Put the near-constant Nintendo Switch successor rumors together with a new LCD screen for a new console, and you've got the perfect conditions for rampant speculation.
"I can’t comment on any details regarding specific customers. But as to a new gaming console, we’ve been involved in its R&D stage," Wu told analysts during the earnings call (as reported by Bloomberg). Sharp actually has a small history of acting as a partner manufacturer for Nintendo, supplying the company with parts for the Nintendo Switch in the past, so it's not out of the question for the company to be involved with a successor.
If Wu's comments are related to Nintendo though, it appears the company has plans for new hardware before March 2024, less than a year away. Keeping in mind that the Nintendo Switch itself wasn't revealed until just a few months before its official launch in March 2017, we could be in for a similar reveal-to-launch timetable for the Switch's eventual successor.
