With xbox cloud saves work without the service.
With playstation they keep your save's for like 6months or a year, even if your subscription runs out.
Both playstation & xbox, allow you to manually backup your saves if you want, say onto a new disk or thumbstick.

With nintendo its the "only" way to backup games, they dont allow other means of doing so.
And if your payment is late by 1day, your service could be terminated and your save games deleted then and there.

"So what am I supposed to be upset about?"

People dislike the idea that the save backups are deleted the instance your subscription ends, so you cant just pay for the service when you want it (for playing online in a game you want) and then cancel until a new game is out that requires it again, doing so will cost you all your backup saves.

Basically its that nintendo isnt being consumer friendly with its subscription model or save game backups.

i think people as missing something here and thats that local saves still exist. you miss your deadline by a day? so what? just renew and back everything up again. i really dont see the problem there. and if you wait a few months to renew your subscription, again whats the big deal? are you really still going to care about cloud saves from a few months ago? elaborate on these points and how theyre actually a bad thing

I still don’t see the problem.

It’s a payed service. If you stop paying the service goes away.

Relativism (comparing to MS and Sony) is irrelevant.

It is worrisome to read so many nonsense in a single post. I did not know that on this website there was so much child crying for stupidities like this.

So if your Switch breaks and takes a month to come back from repairs, what are you going to do? Do you have to go to the husstle of subscribing online, knowing full well you're going to waste a month of paid service? The fact this problem is extremely easy to solve (by allowing physical save files on SD cards) yet they don't is embarrassing.

an entire month of paid service lost... so $3.99? if you pay for yearly thats even lower at  $1.67

Why should Nintendo be obligated to host your savefiles if you don't pay them?

Why shouldn't customers be able to backup save files offline?

Being a cheap service does not excuse it for being an incomplete service, specially when they are taking out stuff that used to be free to offer it as paid content later.

We should, but that is not the topic here