Nintendo Switch Game Save Data Tied to One System, Nintendo Confirms
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Bro, no way. Wii U had Miiverse, Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, and Amazon at launch. I thought Wii U was very decent at launch.
WrenchNinja
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How big are saves? Some of the saves on PS4 are absurd like half a gig
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Deleted member 465307
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When Nintendo announced Nintendo Accounts and My Nintendo a while ago, they talked about using cloud data in reference to saves. However, how they intend to implement it (the slide was only about interaction between theur mobile and console efforts) is a big mystery. Personally, I hope this feature might come with the system's soft relaunch this fall with all the online features (and probably a major OS update, too). But I can't really say I expect it.
Please at least enable copying to MicroSD cards, Nintendo. I want to be able to make SOME kind of backup.
Please at least enable copying to MicroSD cards, Nintendo. I want to be able to make SOME kind of backup.
Unreal Champ
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Really?
Hahahaha, Switch just gets better and better. Tying saves to one system is so barse ackwards it's comical.
It's just astounding that Nintendo would think this is a great way to deal with things. Maybe they're going to add this as a paid extra for their online?
What happens if your switch breaks and needs repair?
It's just astounding that Nintendo would think this is a great way to deal with things. Maybe they're going to add this as a paid extra for their online?
What happens if your switch breaks and needs repair?
Except for when your Switch breaks/gets stolen/gets lost/etc.
But, yes, no issues with this whatsoever.
I'm not going off anything Reggie said.
fluffydelusions
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Ridiculous.
MHWilliams
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My Zelda save is... 64 MB I believe?
Sort of.
I back my Wii U USB HDD up to my NAS using a PC. I can restore to bigger or same size other USB HDD (tested), but it all still works only on the original Wii U, can't transfer the HDD to another Wii U and use it there.
So still no protection against a broken console, but some protection against broken HDD.
I expect the Switch microSD cards would be the same, you can probably image them and restore the images, but they'll still only work on the original switch console.
I don't see a problem.
(Oh no I am defending it!)
If you want to play at a friend's house, well that is why it is portable.
If you do not have the system yet, change that. If your friend does not have it yet...well sorry for them.
Sadly there are alot of people who ruin things for everyone else.
I know people are chomping at the bit for the first exploit to be found in the system but that does not mean that companies have to make it that easy.
(Oh no I am defending it!)
If you want to play at a friend's house, well that is why it is portable.
If you do not have the system yet, change that. If your friend does not have it yet...well sorry for them.
Sadly there are alot of people who ruin things for everyone else.
I know people are chomping at the bit for the first exploit to be found in the system but that does not mean that companies have to make it that easy.
SatoAilDarko
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What I meant was putting the saves from PC back on the same Wii U with the same NNID. Not to transfer saves to a different unit and user.
Well already have a thread.discussing this and I have seen no one defending this
It doesnto make any sense
But this passive aggressive behaviour is as annoying as the "defence force" honestly
Maybe because of games like Pokemon,they don't want people to have multiple copies for their save games.
They sadly haven't announced any plans or intentions for system-wide cloud saves. That's as wrong as people saying that My Nintendo would become the Switch's achievement system.
Like I said in another thread, this problem does concern me as my Little Brother will be affected by this when he gets his own switch, we're currently sharing, so his save data will be stuck on my Switch.
I am hoping that in the future they will release a firmware update to move save data to the micro SD card.
I heard it's easier to load data if it's just reading it.
Nope, like the Switch Wii U game data were locked to a console.
I am hoping that in the future they will release a firmware update to move save data to the micro SD card.
I heard it's easier to load data if it's just reading it.
Nope, like the Switch Wii U game data were locked to a console.
I can actually play a game the same minute I launched it, that's already better than WiiU.
Youtube app is still to this day fucking useless and Netflix didnt' exist in my country when WiiU launched so...yeah
and don't get me started on TVii
Dear god! NO.
Here's the thing, if Nintendo offering cloud saving as their only option for data management then it better be free as I an not paying it.
DS game data saved on carts, but with the 3DS you could move your digital games and save data from one SD card to another.
You don't see a problem in not being able to backup hours and hours of progress? Games like Zelda are huge. If a save (or the system) gets corrupted, that's potentially a huge loss of time. And if you only play a few hours a week, that's potentially months worth of progress. Not everyone has time to binge games.
Hoho for breakfast
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I almost feel bad for the system after people get their Zelda fix.
Almost.
Almost.
Are you going off of that one slide that talked about cloud game data? Because that wasnt talking about Game saves
Stilton Disco
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Wow, this completely negates the fact that games are tied to accounts instead of hardware now.
I mean what's the point in redownloading the game on another system if all your progress has been lost and you have to start over from scratch?
So fucking stupid, and as someone who still has back ups (plural) of my PS1 game saves, this is a big, big draw back to my ever getting this system.
They need to sort this shit out ASAP.
I mean what's the point in redownloading the game on another system if all your progress has been lost and you have to start over from scratch?
So fucking stupid, and as someone who still has back ups (plural) of my PS1 game saves, this is a big, big draw back to my ever getting this system.
They need to sort this shit out ASAP.
Where'd you get information about cloud saves though? Haven't seen it been mentioned.
Fuck Nintendo for this, pieces of shit. I'm particularly angry about this because my Wii U was stolen last September. I lost everything. Ended up having to homebrew my replacement Wii U and inject complete save files for multiplayer games like Mario Kart. Can't touch Xenoblade X ever again because there's no way I'm playing it all over again.
Assholes.
Assholes.
Jubenhimer
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More evidence that buying a Switch now is pointless, and this thing is rushed beyond belief. Those who wait till later in the holidays will be rewarded with a much more complete system.
This is probably not a big issue for most users and we don't know if this will ever be changed.
Not only that, but if it breaks and repair services give you back a different unit (for any reason, even if not beyond repair), you just lost 100% of your progress in every single game you own (minus any online-only saves-to-server stuff).
I guess Nintendo will do some kind of cloud save at some point in time or make it possible to move data from internal to external memory, it doesn't sound like that would be so hard to do, their software engineers should be able to write that code in a few minutes/hours I guess...
family_guy
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No export function to a PC at least?
MrS
Banned
Why do you keep giving them money?
