Nintendo Working on Free-Form LCD Screen for Future Hardware

Nintendo is apparently working with Sharp on a free-form LCD screen to be used with future hardware, likely an upcoming handheld. Sharp has already begun shipping this free-form LCD to Nintendo for use, and likely would only make sense with a new handheld.

Sankei are reporting that Nintendo and Sharp have struck a deal for Sharp to supply Nintendo with a new "free-form" LCD display that is to be part of one of Nintendo's future pieces of hardware, with the website speculating it either be for the upcoming QOL system or the successor to the 3DS.

Sankei also report that their source claims Nintendo are experimenting with a design where there is a hole in the middle of the display.

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That's certainly an innovation, but what do they mean by having a hole in the middle of the screen? O_o What do you guys think about this? Would you like to see this free-form screen be part of Nintendo's next handheld?

Maybe the hole in the console would be how you hold it? I have no idea why a hole in the middle of a hand held console would be any kind of good idea. O.o;

It sounds more like the Quality of Life since I don't know why a handheld would have a hole in it.

What? A hole in the middle of the screen? That's sounds really unusual but it could be a cool looking design. Sounds nice for whatever they are planning it for. It's probably for the Quality of Life system. This sounds unlikely, but maybe they're using it for a future Wii U accessory or some sort of brand new Gampad design.

The Nintendo LCDS.
But a hole in the middle, that sounds more like QoL than a new handheld.
Still good to see them collaborating with another company.

You know, I do wonder, maybe because it's a "free-form" screen, the 'hole' is something that can be moved around freely to change the screen's shape or something? Unless it's just so it can be a large single screen that can still be folded like the DS/3DS/New 3DS but without the need for a separation like those handhelds. If it's like that, it would likely make more sense as a handheld than the QoL as some of you are saying.