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Forums - Nintendo - Switch Save Game Files Can't Be Transferred-They die with the system

Johnw1104 said:
V-r0cK said:

The big deal is if your Switch dies all your saved data dies with it.  How is this not a big deal?

I'm sure Nintendo will fix this tho.

As in it can't be transferred from one Switch to another?

Isn't this kind of normal, though? If your PS4 suddenly dies I'm pretty sure that data is gone as well, is it not?

You can back them up to a external hard drive if you want.

Theres probably other solutions too.



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OdinHades said:
Ruler said:

And Nintendo will take care of these Modders eventually.

Like they did on 3DS? I'm ok with that.

lol! Yeah, if Nintendo doesn't fix this, modders will! I look forward to their fixes.



No cloud save?



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Cloud data (save?) was coming to My Nintendo. It'll most likely be part of the payed services.

Still, this is a good thing. I lost my save files from a corrupted usb drive. 
My internal drives have never failed yet.



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That´s weird. Is there anything official from Nintendo about that?

They did not made it like that on the Wii, the 3ds or the WiiU, so it seems that someone may have misunderstood certain information.



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Bandorr said:
Zekkyou said:
Does anyone else frequently find themselves saying "Well that's odd" in response to Switch news? :p

Absolutely. I'm reading 'complaints' people have with their switches on another website. My response to everyone is "huh, thats weird" which is a variation of "well thats odd".

Volume button doesn't work? Kickstand too lose? Kickstand too tight?- "Well that's odd."

That said this doesn't affect me.. yet. Say in 2019 we get the switch XL, I will want to be able to move my saves from switch 1 to switch 2.

If people are having hardware issues, they should be covered by warranty. I hope they hound the hell out of Nintendo. Make sure Nintendo gets off its ass.



Bandorr said:
Zekkyou said:
Does anyone else frequently find themselves saying "Well that's odd" in response to Switch news? :p

Absolutely. I'm reading 'complaints' people have with their switches on another website. My response to everyone is "huh, thats weird" which is a variation of "well thats odd".

Volume button doesn't work? Kickstand too lose? Kickstand too tight?- "Well that's odd."

That said this doesn't affect me.. yet. Say in 2019 we get the switch XL, I will want to be able to move my saves from switch 1 to switch 2.

By then we'll have an $80 Nintendo link cable for data transfer between units.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

Not sure about the source... yes it is all over the internet but this is not coming from Nintendo at first...
And if right now there is no way to transfer them, it will most likely come in the future

No big deal basically



There will probably be a cloud saving feature tho. You will have to pay 20 dollars tho.



Never had an issue with this, not a huge deal for me, never has been.