A new EU law will require portable consoles like the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch to have batteries you can replace yourself.
Am I the only one worried that the manufacturers will just have two versions of the same product? One for North America with glued batteries and one for the EU with replaceable batteries.
My 9 year old Nephew got a small handheld emulator for his birthday. Some cheaper knock off unit.
He was excited and was showing me all the cool old NES games he could play. Most from my own childhood.
While grinning at me, my Sister told him to tell me what he had told her the best thing about it was.
My Nephew exclaimed that the very best thing about it was that it took AA batteries. So he didn’t have to wait for it to charge. He could just swap batteries.
It blew his mind when I told him everything was like that when his Mom and I were kids.
I’m down to get back to that.
I’m down for a single swappable lithium ion brick, but I’m not super keen on having a pocket full of AAs again.
Agree!
Let’s go EU.
Good. Make everything more repairable please. I’d rather a device be a little heavier/thicker with easily replaceable parts.
