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I've had this happen maybe 4 times with Skyrim, but only Skyrim at that point. I kept getting a message saying "Software was closed as an error occurred" or something.  It hadn't happened in a while, but it did  tonight while playing Fire Emblem Warriors. Now I'm concerned. I thought it was only one piece of software, but I feel like it's the system now. 

Is there anything I could try to avoid this? Has anybody else had these issues?

I just don't want to lose hundreds of save data... I really cannot understand why they haven't had the option to move your data to another switch or attach it to your NNID.



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I had it happen once in FE: Warriors out of more than 150 hours gameplay, I think it's just an issue with the games themselves that'll need a patch.



FarleyMcFirefly said:

 I really cannot understand why they haven't had the option to move your data to another switch or attach it to your NNID.

You can move your data to another Switch. User/save data transfer. 



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It happened to me a couple of times. I wouldn't worry about it. My Switch is a launch system and it has happened like 5 or so times. Still works perfectly though!



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I had this happen to me about 4 times while playing Mario+Rabbids. I just took the cart out and put it back in and it never happened again. Might just have been a connection issue. Although Skyrim has problems on every system its released on though.



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Never once happened to me on Skyrim, and I've played about 50 hours of it. However both Lego City and Lego World's have done this on a few occasions. I do like how it just kicks you back to the home screen though. When games crashed on Wii U you had to do a hard system reset.



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Fast RMX has crashed more, unfortunately.



I had it happen like 4 times during my playthrough of Shu



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it happen to me only one time with more than 40 hours on Skyrim, 



     


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The only game to ever crash on me was Golf Story. But I don’t yet have Skyrim. I was planning to get it after I was fully done with Xenoblade 2 New Game+ and the Breath of the Wild DLC. I have had issues with ARMs online though, particularly ranked mode; not crashes, but I have had instances where it kicked me off the server - I might have had 1 disconnect in about 20 hours of online Mario Kart.



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