{"id":696156,"date":"2026-07-17T06:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:20:24","slug":"nintendo-support-articles-show-inside-new-switch-joy-cons-with-removable-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696156\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo support articles show inside new Switch Joy-Cons with removable battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has released a pair of support articles which give a better look inside the new Switch Joy-Con controllers with removable batteries.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the European Union passed a new regulation<\/a> called the EU Batteries Legislation, which requires consumer products with built-in batteries to make these batteries easily removable and replaceable starting from 2027.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Nintendo<\/a> announced that it would be replacing multiple products in Europe with new ones which meet the standards of the new legislation.<\/p>\n

These include a redesigned Switch 2<\/a> console with a removable battery (coming this autumn), Joy-Con 2 controllers (coming this winter), the Switch 2 Pro Controller (coming in winter) and the N64<\/a> and GameCube<\/a> controllers for Switch<\/a> (coming in 2027).<\/p>\n

Before those, the first hardware getting EU-approved revamps are Joy-Cons for the original Switch, and Nintendo has now released support articles for the left Joy-Con<\/a> and right Joy-Con<\/a> showing how to replace the battery.<\/p>\n

Users will usually not be able to access the new removable battery in the Joy-Con controllers. Instead, to replace it, they must get a Battery Replacement Kit from Nintendo.<\/p>\n

This kit includes the replacement battery, a PH00 Phillips (cross-head) screwdriver, a set of plastic tweezers, a plastic spudger and double-sided tape.<\/p>\n

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Users must use the included screwdriver to remove four small screws on the back of the Joy-Con, use the plastic spudger to pry the Joy-Con open and pry out the battery, use the tweezers to disconnect the battery cables, apply the double-sided tape, insert the new battery and connect it to the circuit board.<\/p>\n

Nintendo has noted that the new Joy-Cons have the same battery as the previous ones, meaning there should be no change in performance. This will also be the case when the revised Joy-Con 2 controllers arrive this winter.<\/p>\n

The revised Switch 2, however, will have a battery with a slightly lower capacity (around 1%), whereas the revised Switch 2 Pro Controller will have a battery with a capacity around 16% smaller than the current version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has released a pair of support articles which give a better look inside the new Switch Joy-Con…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}