Nintendo has announced that, starting mid-February 2027, it’ll cease selling the original Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED consoles to retailers and on the Nintendo Store in Europe.
The window coincides with new European battery regulations requiring user-replaceable batteries in devices and comes ten years after the console was launched back in March 2017 in Europe.
Additionally, starting this Summer, selected products including Switch 2 consoles, Joy-Cons, Pro Controllers, and others will be replaced on a rolling basis by revisions with user-replaceable batteries.
The revisions are not expected to impact functionality, even as the Switch 2’s replaceable battery clocks in at 1% smaller than the current version while making the console 10 grams heavier.
The biggest change will be the Switch 2 Pro Controller whose battery will shrink from 1070mAh to 897mAh – a 16% reduction. It’s not clear as yet if other markets will be impacted but the list of markets that are impacted outside the European Union includes the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UK.
Source: Nintendo
