{"id":427,"date":"2026-07-07T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=427"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:01:01","slug":"original-nintendo-switch-will-be-discontinued-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Original Nintendo Switch Will Be Discontinued In Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the original Nintendo Switch, which remains in active production despite the debut of Switch 2 in 2025. However, the Switch&#8217;s time will be coming to a close in Europe just shy of a decade after its initial release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a notice on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Support\/Nintendo-Switch-2\/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html\" id=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Support\/Nintendo-Switch-2\/Information-about-upcoming-battery-related-revisions-to-some-Nintendo-products-3132901.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo&#8217;s official site<\/a>, the Switch, Switch Lite, and Switch OLED will no longer be available to European retailers after mid-February 2027. Nintendo Store will also stop carrying the original Switch models for European markets in that same month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nintendo hasn&#8217;t signaled when the Switch will be retired in North America, but the company had a greater incentive to shut it down in Europe first. The European Union passed a new regulation that requires Nintendo and other console makers to ship products that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-systems-with-swappable-batteries-coming-this-year-but-not-in-the-us\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-systems-with-swappable-batteries-coming-this-year-but-not-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allow users to change their own batteries<\/a>. Changing the design of the first Switch to allow owners to change its batteries wouldn&#8217;t be very cost-effective, given it was already near the end of its lifetime. So Nintendo discontinued it instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Nintendo will comply with Europe&#8217;s Right to Repair directive and begin releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-systems-with-swappable-batteries-coming-this-year-but-not-in-the-us\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/switch-2-systems-with-swappable-batteries-coming-this-year-but-not-in-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Switch 2 consoles with replaceable batteries<\/a> as soon as this summer. Nintendo has indicated that these new models are virtually identical to the Switch 2 console that&#8217;s already on the market. While those plans are in motion, Nintendo added that &#8220;Due to a variety of factors, revised products may not become available in all European countries simultaneously.&#8221; Presumably that means the ongoing memory and component shortages may slow down the pace of that rollout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given Sony&#8217;s recent decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sony-confirms-playstation-disc-production-will-end-in-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop releasing games on disc<\/a>, Switch 2 is one of the few remaining consoles that still uses physical media. Regardless, Nintendo has leaned more heavily on Game-Key Cards for its current generation of third-party titles on Switch 2, much to the annoyance of games preservation activists. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of the original Nintendo Switch, which remains in active production despite the debut of Switch 2 in 2025. However, the Switch&#8217;s time will be coming to a close in Europe just shy of a decade after its initial release. According to a notice on Nintendo&#8217;s official site, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}