Nintendo Ending Switch Production in Europe in February 2027 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 06 July 2026 / 6,186 Views
Nintendo announced it is ending production of the Nintendo Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027. This is due to new regulations in the European Union requiring electronics to contain a user-replaceable battery.
"Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch – OLED Model will all continue to be manufactured in 2026, and should be widely available in Europe all year," said Nintendo.
"From mid-February 2027, almost ten years after Nintendo Switch launched in March 2017, Nintendo will no longer sell to retailers hardware in the Nintendo Switch family of systems – specifically Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite and Nintendo Switch – OLED Model. Sales of Nintendo Switch hardware on Nintendo Store will also end in mid-February 2027.
"Regarding availability at retail, please check with your local retailers in the future for more information. Nintendo Switch has an extensive library of games that continues to grow, and Nintendo Switch owners can continue to enjoy all their existing Nintendo games and accessories, and Nintendo eShop, Nintendo Switch Online, and other services will all continue for the foreseeable future."
The Nintendo Switch 2 is being revised in Europe to contain a replaceable battery.
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I am so mad Nintendo never made a "Selects" launch for the Switch. They wanting to keep prices high for the Switch 2 upgrades is quite annoying.
Nearly every first party game I've bought for $40 or less
Sales arent frequent but they do happen
And during the Wii days, Selects were 20-25€. Sales on Nintendo games in retails are few, far between and most of the time not nearly enough to justify a purchase.
I still have faith, especially with them seeing inflation and trying to fight prices, it could be cool for them to make a Nintendo Select for Switch titles.
I don't. The moment they started selling upgrades to their Switch games, I knew they were going to try to keep the value of those high. If we have Selects, they'll be either mid-Switch 2 lifecyle, or digital only, and that is a big "if".
Wow! Probably won’t be a while until it gets discontinued through NA/JP being that EU regulatory law is what has motivated this decision, but still this is crazy to hear.
I'm really hoping that these changes being made to the hardware will propigate to other regions regardless of the law in EU. It is so much better for the consumer to have the option to replace something as innocuous as a battery in a device. Especially in controllers from the likes of Nintendo and Sony. At least MS have offered a user replaceable solution for decades... they need to do the same with their elite line now.
This is an obstacle for outselling the PS2. Lets hope the rumoured 2027 launch in India is true.
Perhaps this is why theyve allegedly decided on this launch in India. At the right price and with the right marketing i can easily see a few million Switch 1s being sold there.
Not a big loss. It would be almost dead in sales anyway by next year. With 2025 making 1.2M in Europe, this year around 600k, next one would be no more than 300k. Put some 100-150k for 2028, and you lose some 500k sales at most from this discontinuation.. As I said, not a big loss.
Switch 2 needs to be revised to have a replaceable battery in ALL markets.
Its almost a guarantee that will be the case
I hope so!!
Waaaay to soon! Damn, only bad news after bad news.
The 160mill dream is over now.
Dream been dead, ya can breath now.
Not necessarily. Not with the rumoured India launch
Sigh, it's a shame since it's still a really good product for its price but of course they don't have much interest in selling it if it competing with the Switch 2...
At least it will be enough time to reach the 40 million milestone
It already did .. It had 40.03M shipped as of march 31st.
Wonder if this rule will apply to PS Portal and portable PS6?
Its a sweeping EU regulation, not manufacturer specific so yh it would apply to Sony as well fortunately.
Last few weeks have quite frankly been made with gaming news, not all exactly good. This is more "okay" kind of news, only a year into Switch 2 but guessing take up of new stock for Switch has stalled and they have enough to cover themselves but then most people will be buying Switch 2 anyway.
Thanks EU...
The law could have easily applied to new products rather than existing ones
