{"id":536094,"date":"2026-07-06T17:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536094\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T17:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T17:37:11","slug":"nintendo-is-winding-down-original-switch-sales-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/536094\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is winding down original Switch sales in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Newsbrief: Nintendo&#8217;s original Switch console finally has a sunset window in Europe. According to Nintendo&#8217;s <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Support\/Nintendo-Switch-2\/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html\">official site<\/a> (via <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/wario64.bsky.social\/post\/3mpy6vxata22e\">Wario64<\/a>), Nintendo will stop selling original Switch units to retailers in mid-February 2027. The hardware will cease availability on the Nintendo store at that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">New regulations in the territory\u2014requiring consumer electronics to have replaceable batteries\u2014have prompted Nintendo to prepare a new line of <a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/nintendo-to-debut-a-switch-2-model-with-replaceable-batteries-in-the-eu\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Switch 2 hardware<\/a> for European players, and likely prompted the sunsetting of the older console.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsbrief: Nintendo&#8217;s original Switch console finally has a sunset window in Europe. According to Nintendo&#8217;s official site (via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-536094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536094","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=536094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}