{"id":683557,"date":"2026-06-04T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:40:11","slug":"nintendo-confirms-it-will-sell-a-new-switch-2-with-replaceable-battery-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/683557\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo confirms it will sell a new Switch 2 with replaceable battery in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo is planning to launch versions of Switch 2 hardware in the EU that will let users easily replace the battery. To meet its obligations from a new EU regulation that\u2019s set to go into effect on February 18th, 2027, Nintendo says on its website<\/a> that it is \u201cimplementing measures to comply with these requirements by preparing versions of products to meet the Regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to EU regulations, gadgets with user-replaceable batteries are making a comeback, as my colleague Dominic Preston wrote recently<\/a>. Starting on that February 2027 date, EU rules mandate that many types of gadgets, including portable game consoles, must allow users to relatively easily remove and replace their batteries.<\/p>\n

Nintendo doesn\u2019t specify exactly what it will change with this new version of the Switch 2 to make battery replacements easier \u2014 currently, taking out the battery in the Switch 2 is an involved, multi-step process, as shown by iFixit<\/a>. It\u2019s also unclear if a revised model with a replaceable battery will be available in other regions. Nintendo didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

On its website, Nintendo says that, \u201cFor current products with model numbers starting with \u2018BEE\u2019\u201d \u2014 which is used with the Switch 2, as shown in Nintendo\u2019s filings with the FCC<\/a> \u2014 \u201cfuture compliant versions will have unique model numbers and the additional code \u2018OSM\u2019 visible on the packaging, designating them as separate products for regulatory purposes.\u201d Switch 2 controllers like the Pro Controller<\/a> and the Joy-Cons<\/a> also carry the BEE moniker, and we\u2019ve asked Nintendo if those will have user-replaceable batteries as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo is planning to launch versions of Switch 2 hardware in the EU that will let users easily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[88,559,3,1299,1343,74],"class_list":["post-683557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-policy","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}