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Digitimes: Foxconn Begins Trial Production on Nintendo NX Game System
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The Taiwanese technology news source Digitimes reported on Friday that, according to its industry sources, the Taiwan-based Foxconn Electronics company has started trial production on platform, codenamed "NX." The sources also said that annual production on the system is estimated at 9.5-10 million units.
Nintendo announced in April that it plans to release the game system in March 2017.
Nintendo revealed in May 2015 that the company is considering making the console region-free.
Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima said in January that the NX will not be the successor for existing game hardware, and it will be based on a completely new concept in game systems.
Source: Digitimes (Aaron Lee, Adam Hwang) via Hachima Kikō