Cast your mind back to February of this year and you may remember that Nintendo updated its Japanese website URL from ‘nintendo.co.jp’ to ‘nintendo.com/jp’. Well, Big N is continuing this trend with its European domains and has announced that the URLs for each website will be updated to April 9, 2024.
The update essentially aligns each domain to the same format, ensuring that each starts with ‘nintendo.com’ before requiring users to enter specific regional abbreviations afterward. So what does it look like in practice? Well, Nintendo UK already has the answer x
However, as Nintendo stated, the old URLs will still work for now and will simply redirect to the new ones. The company hasn’t clarified how long it will allow this, but we bet you can still access the old URLs for the foreseeable future.
This news comes after Nintendo confirmed that it will merge its European subsidiaries into one large organization in 2022. It’s currently unknown if this change to the website is directly related, but assuming everything goes as planned for Nintendo, the merger should be completed in August 2024
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