Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@Grumblevolcano That's actually pretty bad if true. Splatoon was one of the presumed purposes of blocking local backups and mandating cloud-only. And half of Splatoon's problems would be solved if they would store the online profiles online like every other major online game in existance to begin with.

Losing your gear, rank, etc because your Switch died and not having it on another switch is, honestly a serious black mark on the game. Meanwhile Diablo III will store your profile in battle.net as Diablo has since 1996........

I mean...negativity is kinda appropriate to that kind of news.

I don’t believe that. It’s a massive game on the switch. It’ll definetely have it

@MisterPi Yeah but even more negatives are the last thing the online service needs. At this point the best news for the paid online service would be a delay to 2019.

EDIT: Apparently Let's Go doesn't support cloud saves either.

EDIT 2: It's definite, not a rumour for both games.

See Splatoon 2 for example:

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/splatoon-2-switch

@Grumblevolcano Ah, yeah definitely. Nintendo was already on thin ice as it was, but this clearly isn't gonna help.

I mean... wtf?

3rd party games not supporting it would be at least a bit understandable. 1st party games especially one as big as Splatoon 2 would be damn near criminal. As someone who lost 100s of hours of save data already this is very disappointing if true.

@DarthNocturnal Probably because you could save scum rerolls if they allowed it. Which... better solution... don't allow rerolling gear offline?

I'm thinking cloud saves are going to work like Xbox 360 given the games not eligible. That you have your local save and you can move/copy it into the cloud (similarly you can move/copy your cloud save to the internal memory). Doing stuff with the local save on 360 doesn't affect the cloud save and vice versa.

@DarthNocturnal Why not? Couldn't I just go in while I'm offline and click "Delete save data" from the menu?

I was hoping Splatoon 2 would support it.

Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online play. This game does not support Save Data Cloud backup. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features"

• Splatoon 2 (Nintendo)
• Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu (Nintendo/Pokémon Company)
• Pokémon Let's Go Evoli (Nintendo/Pokémon Company)
• NBA 2K19 (2K Sports)
• FIFA 19 (EA)
• Dead Cells (Motion-Twin)
• Dark Souls: Remastered (Bandai-Namco)

others with huge probability :

Pokémon Quest
Fortnite
Paladin

I don't get it but it's like that... o_O

@Cobalt Correct me if I'm wrong but I think all the games listed have online multiplayer which features some kind of RNG aspect that can be repeated with a different outcome if you could revert back to an earlier save.

The ones I know are like this are:

• Splatoon 2 (Gear abilities are RNG)
• Pokemon (Catched Pokemon stats and level ups are RNG)
• FIFA 19 (Ultimate Team is RNG)

So if this is the case, I don't think Fire Emblem Three Houses will have cloud backup.

Can’t wait to lose a thousand hours in Splat

This is one case where I think backlash is justified. I can understand one game here and there not supporting cloud saves, but you cant go skipping half the biggest titles. That's super lame. SUPER lame.

Backlash away people. In fact I might join you on this one

@Grumblevolcano I think you're right ! ^^

Yeah this seems to be to prevent save scumming

Well, that's disappointing. So we're basically paying for something that doesn't cover all that it should. That just feels like we're giving money away for no reason.

I'm probably still going to get an NSO subscription since I play a lot of online multiplayer games (Mario Tennis Aces, Splatoon 2, and Smash Bros. Ultimate, when that one comes out), but with this news... I might just wait and see what's really going on with this service. I'm not exactly sure why we're paying for cloud saves if some games don't even support them.

Yeah this is absolutely ridiculous. So not only does Nintendo fail to save Splatoon data like level and rank online like virtually any other online game for the last decade, but they don't even let us use their PAID service to back up our profile so that we don't lose all progress because Nintendo is incompetent enough to not implement the profiles to be saved online.

@JaxonH I was fine with Switch Online and even looking forward to it, but this is so ridiculous that now even I'm upset. Not only does Nintendo fail to save Splatoon data like level and rank online like virtually any other online game for the last decade, but they don't even let us use their PAID service to back up our profile so that we don't lose all progress because Nintendo is incompetent enough to not implement the profiles to be saved online. This company sometimes can be so infuriating ...

@link3710 @DarthNocturnal Can you even re-roll stuff offline? You can't even buy gear offline in Splatoon. It's as if all the shop doors are wi-fi controlled and they won't open if there's no internet. That's going to be reality in 20 years from now.

How do cloud saves work for other online games? I'm certain they have found a way to circumvent that issue. At least, I would assume.