Nintendo Plans to Continue Selling Switch Outside of Europe - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 July 2026 / 2,973 Views
Nintendo yesterday announced it would be ending production of the Nintendo Switch in Europe in mid-February 2027 due to new regulations in the European Union requiring electronics to contain a user-replaceable battery.
People wondered if this would also lead to the Switch no longer being sold in other parts of the world, however, a Nintendo representative told IGN it will keep selling the console outside of Europe.
"We plan to continue selling Nintendo Switch outside of regions where Nintendo of Europe conducts business," said Nintendo.
Nintendo yesterday stated, "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. 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."
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I found some more details on this on another site. In addition to the whole family of Switch 1 systems, the Switch Pro Controller, NES Classic Controller and SNES Classic Controller are also being discontinued in Feb 2027 for EU. However, the original Switch 1 Joy-Cons are getting an update to a user replaceable battery, so they can still be sold past that date.
This makes sense, as it does with the hardware, it doesn't seem worth it for Nintendo to retool production lines in order to keep making Switch 1 Pro Controllers or SNES controllers for the few that grab them. However, there are probably still a TON of future Joy-Con owners out there for the huge installed base, either just to add another player or replace broken ones (stick drift anyone?).
still selling better than the Xseries, i would too.
Given the closing is not the death of demand, but rather the compliance with a law (that I fully agree with, by the way), one thing I'd be personally interested in is to see how big the market of Switch purchases remains in Europe based on imports.
Is that even trackable?
Because back in the day, I knew more than a few people who imported gaming products that weren't available in Europe.
