A new report has surfaced that Nintendo is planning another regional Switch 2 variant, this time for the EU.

The report comes via Japanese publication Nikkei, which claims that this EU exclusive Switch 2 model will come with replaceable battery for the main unit as well as the Joy-Con 2 controllers. This would reportedly allow the console to be compliant with a 2023 EU “right-to-repair” policy which mandated all portable electronics to have easily replaceable batteries by 2027. The Switch 2 and its predecessor do not have any way to replace the lithium-ion batteries that power the console, requiring users to send them to Nintendo for repairs if any issue arises.

If this report is accurate, Nintendo is not the only one who has been forced to make changes to their hardware to comply with the regulation. Sony’s DualSense PS5 controllers were updated last year with replaceable batteries, and Apple’s newer iPhone models have also been modified to make battery removal easier.

That said, it is not known whether Nintendo will eventually roll this replaceable battery model out to more regions outside the EU. Stay tuned for more update as they come.

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