Yoshisuke Hasegawa, the general manager of Sharp's Liquid Crystal Display Business, presented the new screens at a press event in Tokyo. Sharp boasts that their screens feature "the highest brightness" in the 3D LCD Touchscreen market.
The screens can display in 3D or 2D modes, and allow the user to view 3D images without the use of glasses. Of course, all of this sounds exactly like what we know about the Nintendo 3DS. Just like the leading speculation for the 3DS, Sharp's new screen's 3D image is the result of a parallax barrier.
It's important to note that Sharp is among the companies that have provided LCD screens to Nintendo. (Sharp was fined for a price-fixing scheme, related to the Nintendo DS screens, back in 2008.) Sharp was already mentioned as being the provider of screens for the 3DS in a March 23 story from the Asahi news agency.
It's a reasonable assumption (assumption being the reason this isn't news) that these screens are the same ones that will be in Nintendo's 3DS.
One final piece of evidence relates to the timing of the 3DS announcement. Despite being a week in advance of the release of the DSi XL in western territories, NCL announced that the hardware will be made obsolete in the near future. CNBC reported that the Japanese press had been in contact with the "suppliers" for the 3DS, and Nintendo wanted to be the ones to announce the system, fearing an impending press leak. Given that Sharp was most likely planning this event for weeks, it's not unreasonable to assume that a 3DS related link would result from their efforts.
While it's impossible to confirm that Sharp's newest screens are going to find their way into the 3DS, the preponderance of evidence seems to suggest as much. At the very least, the Sharp presentation provides images of some very nice looking screens.
