Nintendo truly stands alone, at least in this current industry. Microsoft has just announced that it's cutting thousands of jobs, and parting with four whole studios. Sony is eliminating physical discs altogether.
Amid all this, Nintendo is weathering the storm, offering up physical copies via cartridges for most of its first-party games, and not making significant cuts. In any era beyond the Wii U, Nintendo has comfortably weathered periods of extended industry woes, and the worst isn't necessarily behind us.
It is the end of the era for the Nintendo Switch, though. As evidenced by new documents on the official Nintendo website, change is coming, and it'll be arriving quickly.
Nintendo is going to have a busy time with hardware in the next few years, both on the Switch 1 and the Switch 2 fronts.
Thanks to new European battery regulations, the company is rolling out slightly different Switch 2 units to Europe: "In mid-February 2027, selected Nintendo products in Europe will begin to be replaced on a rolling basis by revisions that contain a user-replaceable battery. There is no difference in functionality between current products and revised products containing user-replaceable batteries."
User-replaceable batteries are not...
