Here\u2019s the full statement:<\/p>\n
From mid-February 2027, almost ten years after Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017, Nintendo will no longer sell to retailers hardware in the Nintendo Switch family of systems \u2014 specifically Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch \u2013 OLED Model. Sales of Nintendo Switch hardware on Nintendo Store will also end in mid-February 2027.<\/p>\n
The news comes as Nintendo is making a bunch of changes to the rest of its lineup due to EU regulations requiring user-replaceable batteries. Starting this summer, the company says it will start introducing updated versions of various devices on \u201ca rolling basis,\u201d ahead of the regulations coming into effect on February 18th, 2027<\/a>. \u201cThere is no difference in functionality between current products and revised products containing user-replaceable batteries,\u201d Nintendo says.<\/p>\n The Switch 2 is the most notable product being updated \u2014 the new version is expected to start rolling out in the fall \u2014 but there will also be versions of the Joy-Con controllers, Joy-Con 2, Switch 2 Pro Controller, and N64 and GameCube Switch controllers with user-replaceable batteries. \u201cDue to a variety of factors, revised products may not become available in all European countries simultaneously,\u201d Nintendo notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the full statement: From mid-February 2027, almost ten years after Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017, Nintendo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93,213,61,60,43,4410,80],"class_list":["post-535913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}