Switch software randomly booting off with "error occurred"

[Johnw1104]

FarleyMcFirefly said:

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.

I think it's Skyrim. I've topped 200 hours of Skyrim at this point and it's happened to me maybe 4 or 5 times... I think I recall seeing it only once or twice across all of the other games.

This is fairly normal in my experience. Until recently the console I played on most consistently was the PS4 and I'd get those errors all the time. I don't see why it would actually harm the save data though? You should be fine, and Bethesda seems to recognize their games crash constantly as it saves after going through damn near every door in the game lol