{"id":45796,"date":"2018-09-07T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/nintendo_website_suggests_multiple_switch_games_will_not_support_cloud_saves"},"modified":"2018-09-07T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T23:50:00","slug":"nintendo-website-suggests-multiple-switch-games-will-not-support-cloud-saves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/07\/nintendo-website-suggests-multiple-switch-games-will-not-support-cloud-saves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Website Suggests Multiple Switch Games Will Not Support Cloud Saves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/245889605c854\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/245889605c854\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Online Games\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/245889605c854\/nintendo-switch-online-games.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/245889605c854\/nintendo-switch-online-games.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Online Games\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Nintendo has now responded to Game Informer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The vast majority of Nintendo Switch games will support Save Data Cloud backup. However, in certain games\u00a0this feature would make it possible to, for example, regain items that had been traded to other players, or revert to a higher online multiplayer ranking that had been lost. To ensure fair play, Save Data Cloud backup may not be enabled for such games.\u00a0To ensure that Save Data Cloud backups cannot be used to unfairly affect online multiplayer rankings, the feature will not be enabled in Splatoon 2.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The warning message has also been removed from a number of game pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Original article:<\/strong> Despite a <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/rumour_cloud_saves_will_be_supported_on_all_existing_switch_games_by_default\">rumour<\/a> all existing releases on the Nintendo Switch would technically support cloud saves when the online service launched for the system later this month, new information found on various game pages of the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/games\/detail\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-switch\">Nintendo website<\/a>\u00a0suggests there&#8217;ll be multiple titles without this feature.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2018\/09\/07\/multiple-switch-games-including-pokemon-splatoon-and-dark-souls-do-not-support-cloud\">Game Informer<\/a>, there are clear messages at the bottom of certain Switch pages, indicating which games will not support cloud saves. Below is the exact warning on display:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online play. <strong>This game does not support Save Data Cloud backup.<\/strong> Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This message has been located on the game pages for\u00a0the first-party titles\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong>. Third-party games\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dark_souls_remastered\">Dark Souls: Remastered<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dead_cells\">Dead Cells<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_19\">FIFA 19<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nba_2k19\">NBA 2K19<\/a><\/strong> also display this warning. As Game Informer points out, all of the above-mentioned third-party titles support cloud saves on PlayStation and Xbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This news stems from the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/switch_game_cases_will_state_whether_or_not_cloud_saves_are_supported\">discovery<\/a> Switch game cases would state whether or not cloud saves were supported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Let us know what you think about this latest information regarding Switch cloud saves.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Nintendo has now responded to Game Informer: The vast majority of Nintendo Switch games will support Save Data Cloud backup. However, in certain games\u00a0this feature would make it possible to, for example, regain items that had been traded to other players, or revert to a higher online multiplayer ranking that had been lost. To [&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-45796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796","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=45796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}