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Nintendo confirms a new Switch 2 model is in the works to better comply with EU regulation

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Rumoured for a number of months now, Nintendo has recently put out a statement on what it's doing to comply with EU directives and regulations. There are a number of topics listed on the page, but the one most people will likely be interested in covers regulation 2023/1542, looking at batteries and waste batteries.

Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries (Batteries Regulation) said:
Like the WEEE Directive, the Batteries Regulation aims to reduce the environmental impact of the manufacture, distribution, use, disposal and recycling of batteries and rechargeable batteries. In doing so, it forbids the supply of batteries and rechargeable batteries with certain hazardous metal content and sets out requirements for batteries' labelling, safe removal from appliances, collection and recycling. Nintendo products are fully compliant with these requirements, and Nintendo cooperates fully with authorised regional institutions to facilitate the proper collection and environmentally sound recovery or disposal of its batteries.

In addition, the Regulation requires that from February 18th, 2027, batteries integrated into certain appliances and sold in the EU must be easily replaceable by end-users at any time during the lifetime of the product. Nintendo is implementing measures to comply with these requirements by preparing versions of products to meet the Regulation. For current products with model numbers starting with “BEE”, future compliant versions will have unique model numbers and the additional code “OSM” visible on the packaging, designating them as separate products for regulatory purposes.
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This appears to confirm that by February 2027, we should have a new model of Switch 2 on the horizon marked with the additional code "OSM". It should be noted that these updates are first planned for current products with model numbers starting with "BEE". Though this does most notably include the Switch 2, both its Joy Cons and Pro Controller also share this model prefix. It remains to be seen whether these products will be sold outside of the EU.

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Hopefully this becomes the end standard for the Switch 2 outside of the EU region! Even though some laws such as the UK Online Safety Act are terrible, some of the stuff that the EU region has is actually outstanding. Especially since they're able to have stuff affect their government like the Stop Killing Games campaign. Though I've been hearing that Ubisoft, the ones that were actively doing something with them that SKG wasn't invited to the discussion for... I hope this doesn't change anything for the worse cause if there's something that's happening with one country it's going to potentially happen globally.
 

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