European consumers considering a Switch 2 purchase can look forward to a revised version of the hybrid console,\u00a0as Nintendo has announced a\u00a0region-specific change to\u00a0the device. The new model will have a removable battery, so that it complies with\u00a0the EU Batteries Legislation,\u00a0which was passed back in 2023 by the European Union.<\/p>\n
That specific set of regulations will come into full effect on February 18, 2027 (via VGC<\/a>), and Nintendo has announced that it will comply with it. According to the legislation, consumer products with built-in batteries are legally required to make them removable and replaceable. Nintendo says<\/a> that products starting with the model number\u00a0“BEE” will be changed to meet these requirements, and the Switch 2 has a model number of BEE-01.\u00a0<\/p>\n This legislation could have an impact on several other Nintendo products, like Switch Joy-Con and Pro controllers, as the batteries in these peripherals aren’t easy to remove or replace. Nintendo hasn’t mentioned if these console revisions will result in a further price hike for the Switch 2 in Europe–new prices come into effect in September–or if it will roll out to other regions.<\/p>\n So far, Nintendo has moved a lot <\/em>of Switch 2 consoles across the globe, with 19.82 million<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European consumers considering a Switch 2 purchase can look forward to a revised version of the hybrid console,\u00a0as Nintendo has announced a\u00a0region-specific change to\u00a0the device. The new model will have a removable battery, so that it complies with\u00a0the EU Batteries Legislation,\u00a0which was passed back in 2023 by the European Union. That specific set of regulations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":83668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83669,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666\/revisions\/83669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}