Topic: Is it possible to switch... switches?

Hello! I’m still fairly new to the Switch (and to video games in general). My daughter has a switch with a digital copy of ACNH. I have a switch lite with a physical copy of ACNH. We would like to, if possible, trade switches while still keeping our current save data for our respective ACNH games. Is this possible at all?

@jdfwright I think that this might be the answer you're looking for:
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...
Just follow the questionnaire, and you'll get to the right answer, if I'm not mistaken. In case it's not, then that forum is still the right place to look for your answer, or to ask this question.

Good luck!

@jdfwright Thanos is right, but unfortunately, there are some exceptions. Animal Crossing New Horizon currently cannot be transferred from one Switch to another (There are a handful of games that can't.) If anyone has info to the contrary, I welcome it. Nintendo said that they may release a patch that will allow system transfers of ACNH, but a time has not been announced.

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...

"If I purchase a second system, can I transfer the save file (island data) to a different console?

Animal Crossing: New Horizons does not support the ability to transfer your save file from one Nintendo Switch system to another."

And as a heads up, here's a list of games that don't have game save cloud backup support.
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...

@WoomyNNYes Ouch...

@ThanosReXXX Yeah, it stinks. I feel bad giving that news. I've had to give that to a couple people lately

@WoomyNNYes Funny thing (although "funny", not really) is that the same thing was actually true for the GameCube version of Animal Crossing as well: you couldn't transfer that safe data to another memory card or console either, so in that respect, they've apparently learned nothing either...

@ThanosReXXX is this all about preventing cheating exploits?

@WoomyNNYes I suppose. On the GameCube, the game came with a special 251 block memory card included, and once the game was saved on there, you couldn't move it. If I remember correctly, that also had to do with some NES or SNES games being on there, which you could unlock in the game.

All have to remember some simple worlds you agreed to when you bought the game:

EULA TOS

They can do what they want when they want and you have no control over it. Users trying to move save to another is doing anything other then Cheating otherwise just do the NIN migration of all data to the other Switch Legally. My request for them is to allow to move to the microSD to save on the internal Storage but making a checksum security lock so you can just pop it into another Switch unless you did a complete data migration then and only then would you be able to use it on another Switch after the migration is completed. That is most likely what they are working on to prevent Cheaters/Hackers from ruining for the rest of legal gamers.