WELL it happened! This morning I dropped my switch lite and it hit my chair and the screen broke. I then discovered you cannot transfer your saved game to a new switch.
I had just bought 3 million in turnips and dropped them all too. Not that it matters much.
I took it in to a local game repair shop for repair but they said screens would take a month "at least".
Nintendo repair centers are offline until further notice.
I ended up having to buy a new switch lite (which isn't easy but got lucky at my sixth Target location). Took it to a shop and they are swapping the parts around. $300 to replace the switch lite and save my game. Hopefully it works out.
I pay for the Nintendo Online Service, it seems to imply that the game is saved in the cloud or at least on the MicroSD card. Swapping the SD card into a new switch does not work and the online feature doesn't work. All indications I had seemed to make me believe there would be an easy way to recover. Obviously I didn't read the fine print. I imagine I won't be the first.
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WELL it happened! This morning I dropped my switch lite and it hit my chair and the screen broke. I then discovered you cannot transfer your saved game to a new switch.
I had just bought 3 million in turnips and dropped them all too. Not that it matters much.
I took it in to a local game repair shop for repair but they said screens would take a month "at least".
Nintendo repair centers are offline until further notice.
I ended up having to buy a new switch lite (which isn't easy but got lucky at my sixth Target location). Took it to a shop and they are swapping the parts around. $300 to replace the switch lite and save my game. Hopefully it works out.
I pay for the Nintendo Online Service, it seems to imply that the game is saved in the cloud or at least on the MicroSD card. Swapping the SD card into a new switch does not work and the online feature doesn't work. All indications I had seemed to make me believe there would be an easy way to recover. Obviously I didn't read the fine print. I imagine I won't be the first.
I couldn't be more disappointed.