Hi all hopefully someone can help out a confused father. Bought a switch a couple months ago, made the main profile mine then within the switch added profiles for each of my kids. Today we got a second switch, when I logged on to it only my profile was shown. How do I also move over my kids profiles so they can play their saved games on either one? Neither of theirs are tied to emails as they are young. I also never created them under a family as I didn't know about it. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks
Note: Animal Crossing New Horizon progress requires an app to transfer it, I believe. For a while you couldn't transfer Animal Crossing New Horizons, but they made it possible with an app back around November.
Nintendo's support page is a good resource, if you search for topics, in case you haven't seen their site before. They have decent directions for most everything.
Thanks I saw that article but Id like to figure out how to save it to the cloud so they can access what theyd like on either switch. That article is to move game data from one to another but it deletes it off the old one. Ill try their support thank you
@Waffen06 Unfortunately, you're discovering the caveats, or restrictions, with Switch consoles. The Switch ecosystem is simple if one person wants one console. If you have kids, want to have multiple Switch consoles, the Switch ecosystem doesn't allow the freedom to share games as easily as you probably have in mind. In the forum here, someone has to break this complicated(usually disappionting) news to someone new quite often.
I guess maybe Im confusing my issue. I understand the one game thing. Heres my example.
My kids play a pokemon game. Kid A and Kid B have their own profile for that game and its saved to our old switch. Now Kid A is playing super smash bros on the old switch and Kid B wants to play his pokemon account on the new switch. I understand I can permanently move the account from old to new but now his account is no longer on the old switch. I have 3 kids so these things will exchange hands a lot. If Kid B wants to play pokemon back on the old switch his account is now gone off of it.
My other problem is each kid has their own profile on my old switch that IS Not backed up to an email (they are too young) and it was never set up as a "Family" as I did it on the switch itself. Is there anyway to link all their current profiles to mine so all their saved games can go back and forth between switches?
@Waffen06 You're gettting there You can move game progress. But the kids can't have their game progress across multiple consoles. They can only keep their progress on one console at a time.
There is a system you can have your game progress on multliple consoles by setting your consoles as primary and non-primary, but this system doesn't work for a family, unfortunately. This system is for one person that owns 2 consoles - a regular Switch for TV and a Switch LIte for travel. Play Mario on the TV switch, turn that off, and then continue playing that same game on your Switch Lite(on-the-go). The caveat here is only one console can be played at a time, because they have to sync game progress. It's not for a family situation. If that sounds annoying, I agree.
Regarding cloud save back ups. If you want the kids games to get cloud save back up, you would need to buy Switch Online family plan. Each kid will need their own nintendo account, each account on NIntendo's website requires a unique email address. (I agree again here, kids shouldn't need their own email address.) Nintendo did this so people don't go nuts making lots of game save profiles eating up Nintendo cloud server space. It also twarts cheating, a form a hacking, with some online games.
Appreciate the help! So seems I need to create emails for my kids? I did see a option to add kid accounts under my family but I guess in that case they would lose all their current game progress since it would be a new account?
Do the cloud save backups work how I was describing between switches or is it just a backup in case something happens?
So seems I need to create emails for my kids? I did see a option to add kid accounts under my family but I guess in that case they would lose all their current game progress since it would be a new account?
I think you can keep their game progress? There's a chance I'm wrong. I believe you link your kid's Switch user profile(their game save progress) to the new Nintendo account (with unique email address)(part of your family plan). Then that game progress will be backed up to the cloud. Forgive me if I'm wrong. This could be a good question to ask Nintendo Support via phone or chat messenger.
Do the cloud save backups work how I was describing between switches or is it just a backup in case something happens?
No, Kid A's game progress(with cloud backup) is kept on one switch. Kid A's Mario Odyssey progress will only be available on Kid A's Switch. There are technical problems that arise if Kid A's Mario Odyssey progress is shared on 2 or more consoles. Every time progress is made on one console, the other consoles need the update. If the other console is being played, it can't be updated. This is also why Kid A can't play the same Mario Odyssey game on two consoles at once. If you tried to run Kid A's Mario Odyssey game on two consoles at the same time, there is a game save system conflict.
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