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Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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For everyone who thought eu legislation would force corporations make better stuff globally, that's how much they care about you.
And people still buying from nintendo is really disappointing
It's only making it more expensive for themselves. They want to have two production lines for two separate models... Well that effects their profit margin.
See, it's worth so much to screw over consumers
Is it though or is this just them being spiteful?
How often do the batteries in the non-user replaceable version fail, they can't have the failure rate be too high or else word would get around. So they're doing this against the cost of some theoretical future benefit may very well not come to pass. I suspect this decision hasn't been properly costed out.