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Nintendo's Promised Cloud Saves On Switch Won't Work For Every Game (arstechnica.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the read-the-fine-print dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The first paid online service for Nintendo Switch, simply named Nintendo Switch Online, is set to arrive at some point later this month, and we're still waiting on a few key details. One detail about the service emerged on Friday via Nintendo's official site, and it's not a great one: there will be specific limits to the service's promised cloud-save support. Nintendo Switch Online's $20/year cost includes a promise to "save your data online for easy access" -- which, for the uninitiated, will be the only way to back up your Switch games' save data when it launches. Currently, should your Nintendo Switch be lost, stolen, or damaged, your progress in games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is toast, as you can neither move save data from one console to another nor personally back it up to a hard drive. The following current and upcoming Switch games do not support Save Data Cloud backups: Splatoon 2, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, Dark Souls Remastered, Dead Cells, FIFA 19, NBA 2K19, and NBA Playgrounds.

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  1. Re: Why is Nintendo being so restrictive with save by sexconker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't about their games, this is about their system and services. They're widely considered to be about 20 years behind the rest of the world regarding anything that involves the internet.

    For example, on the Switch you get a popup notification when friends come online. You can also look at their name and icon and see what they have played recently.

    That is the extent of the Switch's friend list capabilities. There is no voice chat on the system. There is no text chat. There is no way to invite a friend to play a game with you.

    You have to call/text/whatever your friend outside the system and ask if they want to play a game. If you want to voice chat in Nintendo's game you need to download an app on your phone to do so. If you want game audio and chat audio, you need a headset, a mixer, a voice chat app (official or otherwise), and wires / dongles out the ass.

    THIS MONSTROSITY IS THE OFFICIAL VOICE CHAT SOLUTION FOR THE NINTENDO SWITCH
    https://www.vooks.net/img/2017...