{"id":109442,"date":"2020-02-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_will_support_save_file_transfers_later_this_year"},"modified":"2020-02-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:00:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-will-support-save-file-transfers-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/21\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-will-support-save-file-transfers-later-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Will Support Save File Transfers &#8220;Later This Year&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0434daf3fd5ea\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0434daf3fd5ea\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Believe it or not, but it&#8217;s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the save data situation in the upcoming release, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>. Although save data recovery is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/recovering_your_animal_crossing_new_horizons_save_data_from_nintendo_is_a_one-time-only_deal\">one-time-only deal<\/a> for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, it appears Nintendo will eventually give players the option to transfer their New Horizons save from one system to another.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the exact details from the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.uk\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch\/Animal-Crossing-New-Horizons-1438623.html#\">Nintendo UK website<\/a>. Noticeably, this function will be rolled out &#8220;later&#8221; this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This game does not currently support the ability to transfer your save file from one Nintendo Switch console to another. However, a function specific to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to move users and save data to another console is planned for later this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Save file transfer support - coming later this year\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/809c6848a2c87\/save-file-transfer-support-coming-later-this-year.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/809c6848a2c87\/save-file-transfer-support-coming-later-this-year.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Save file transfer support - coming later this year\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">Save file transfer support &#8211; coming later this year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s still unfortunate there&#8217;s no save data cloud functionality, and that save data recovery is a one-time deal, at least the transfer function will allow you to move across your island to a new Switch. This could be particularly handy if you&#8217;ve got a system that has seen better days and needs to be retired after thousands of hours of use.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you relieved as we are to hear that save data transfers will be supported? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Believe it or not, but it&#8217;s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the save data situation in the upcoming release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Although save data recovery is a one-time-only deal for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, it appears Nintendo will eventually give players the option to transfer their New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}