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Brian Altano's Switch broke sent for repair sent came wiped #NoCloudSaves
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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I've specifically read that peoples' saves automatically redownload after repair. The letter they sent him says the issue he was having prevented them from being able to do this.
As someone who has lost tons of save files, especially for RPGs, I usually fall in the latter category
Dang, I feel for Mr. Altano. That hurts my feelings just thinking about it.
Hope he keeps us updated on NVC - it can only help that someone of his prominence speaking up about this crap might possibly help nudge Nintendo into at least making some kind of statement or promises for future solutions.
Hope he keeps us updated on NVC - it can only help that someone of his prominence speaking up about this crap might possibly help nudge Nintendo into at least making some kind of statement or promises for future solutions.
Am I mistaken or if it's a situation like this and the system turns on, can you transfer your profile + save data to another Switch then transfer it back once you get your system returned from Nintendo?
I love Nintendo but it's weird how in 2018 is still a lottery in terms of what modern features we get from them
Friend codes, no cloud saves, ugh.
My Wii died and lost all its saves three years after launch. I never really recovered from that and skipped a ton of games because I was so angry I lost my saves
Friend codes, no cloud saves, ugh.
My Wii died and lost all its saves three years after launch. I never really recovered from that and skipped a ton of games because I was so angry I lost my saves
kind of glad it happened to someone at a place like IGN
hopefully a lot of noise is made about this and Nintendo, you know, IMPLEMENTS FUCKING CLOUD SAVES
hopefully a lot of noise is made about this and Nintendo, you know, IMPLEMENTS FUCKING CLOUD SAVES
I'm sure I'm an outlier here, but tbh this wouldn't bother me for any game other than the one(s) I had been currently playing. I'm done with Zelda and Mario, so if those saves got erased I'd probably be like "ah well" and move on pretty fast to a different game.
If anything it's a kick in the pants reason to play them again lol. What good is keeping a save file around of a game that you've completed? Especially to the degree that he probably had? It's like whenever I go back and play Animal Crossing Gamecube (get the urge a couple times a year). I never re-load an old town and pick out all the weeds, first thing I do is erase the save and start again. Same thing I'd do if I wanted to go back to Breath of the Wild. Why would I go back to a completed game? What would there be to do?
If anything it's a kick in the pants reason to play them again lol. What good is keeping a save file around of a game that you've completed? Especially to the degree that he probably had? It's like whenever I go back and play Animal Crossing Gamecube (get the urge a couple times a year). I never re-load an old town and pick out all the weeds, first thing I do is erase the save and start again. Same thing I'd do if I wanted to go back to Breath of the Wild. Why would I go back to a completed game? What would there be to do?
Pretty much. Better be there day one on with their online system in September (or earlier).
We're forging our own path! To hell with your "industry standards"! No matter how convenient and common sense they may be!
After all if there were cloud saves and online service Nintendo clearly would have been unable to innovate on the hardware front...for some reason
It's not the saves that are redownlodable, it's the (digital) games that come in an archived state with the little cloud symbol to be redownloaded. The saves thing was just a conclusion people jumped to... in reality, they come already in your replacement system's memory. If the original system's memory was possible to read, which in the case of this guy it wasn't.
That's not true. For some repairs saves just remain in the console and games get deleted (thus the re-download part).
The Switch doesn't have any mechanism to recover or download saves.
Yeah they really really need to fix this before it happens to more people with social media followings.
If it happens to Christine Teigen or something they might be in some real trouble.
If it happens to Christine Teigen or something they might be in some real trouble.
Some of these are massive games. I hit the end credits for Breath of the Wild, but I will probably like to continue my game later on.
that is an easy way to blow up your USB port, kind of makes transfer difficult when the console IO is destroyed or you can't even power the device on.
If they made it work like the 3DS it would work better for users, but probably enable some of the 3DS piracy issues along the way.
Wireless data transfers would be nice at this point, cloud or not.
of course none of this would have helped this guy if he destroyed his USB port.
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Y'all are missing the point that he couldn't charge his Switch, which is why it was in for repairs to begin with. Transfers don't do you any good if you can't power on the device.
Does the Switch not have a content manager like the Vita? Where you can backup saves and games to a PC for transfer later?
yikes. Maybe with Nintendo online in September cloud saves will come?
yikes. Maybe with Nintendo online in September cloud saves will come?
There is no backup option at all for saves? Not even a media connect/content manager or loader on the PC like the PSP/Vita had?
I would be beyond pissed. Nintendo needs to get on this. Cloud saves in this day and age should be the standard.
Well that's one reason to never support Nintendo again or avoid a switch until they can prevent that from happening.
I suppose, but what would there to be to continue? And at least for Mario, Brian had gotten all 999 moons, he had seen and done everything in that game. So what good is the save file? Opening up and being like "cool" and then closing it again?
Again, it would really only bother me for a game I'm still playing, which right now would be Stardew, Mario Rabbids, and Celeste. Otherwise, meh. If his tweet had said "and I was 50 hours into Xenoblade" or something I'd definitely feel a lot more anger towards it. But he specifically referenced two games he's already more than finished with lol.
I dunno, I realize I'm being weird I guess.
Is there no backup option in Switch? I might need to get on it if there is.
Oh, and is the title of this thread some sort of anagram or just a really impressive run on?
Oh, and is the title of this thread some sort of anagram or just a really impressive run on?