{"id":48359,"date":"2018-09-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/guide_how_cloud_saves_work_in_nintendo_switch_online"},"modified":"2018-09-17T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T17:00:00","slug":"guide-how-cloud-saves-work-in-nintendo-switch-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/17\/guide-how-cloud-saves-work-in-nintendo-switch-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide: How Cloud Saves Work In Nintendo Switch Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/86af225d43d08\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/86af225d43d08\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Nintendo Switch Online\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/86af225d43d08\/nintendo-switch-online.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/86af225d43d08\/nintendo-switch-online.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Switch Online\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the best reasons to sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/guide_nintendo_switch_online_faq_-_everything_we_know_so_far\">Nintendo Switch Online<\/a> is cloud saves. Yes, they&#8217;re finally arriving on Thursday when the online service finally launches.<\/p>\n<p>To help prepare you for the upcoming changes, we thought we&#8217;d give you a heads up on how cloud saves work on Nintendo Switch. That way you can get right into ensuring that you never lose a<\/p>\n<h2>How Cloud Saves Work On Nintendo Switch Online<\/h2>\n<p>Before we begin, here&#8217;s one thing to bear in mind: not every single Nintendo Switch game will support cloud saves. There are two reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s up to each developer to enable cloud saves, and some might not bother.<\/li>\n<li>Nintendo won&#8217;t support cloud saves for games like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a> to avoid cheating.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yes, this is a tiny bit of a huge disappointment. We hear you, guys. But let&#8217;s not get too caught up in the apathy and instead focus on how cloud saving actually works on Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Once the service is live, you&#8217;ll probably notice that a bunch of your favourite games will download tiny patches. This is them effectively ticking the box that allows cloud saves to work.<\/p>\n<p>Download the patch and Nintendo will then start firing your save files up into the cloud where they&#8217;ll safely sit until your console breaks and you want to carry on from where you left off in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> and the like.<\/p>\n<p>This process is automatic, and doesn&#8217;t require any input from you. We&#8217;re not entirely sure of the timeline yet \u2013 does the Switch upload the save when you&#8217;ve finished playing? When you manually save? Each time the game auto-saves? We&#8217;ll aim to update this guide when that&#8217;s clear.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that, in the event of a crash, the Switch will always favour the most recent save though. So if your local save file is more recent than the cloud save, it will replace the cloud save.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t clear is whether or not your cloud saves will work on another Nintendo Switch console. For example, could you feasibly sign on to your Nintendo Account while using a friend&#8217;s Switch and carry on your Zelda save from it? We hope so, but Nintendo hasn&#8217;t made that clear yet.<\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any limit to the size of a save file, nor limitations on how many save files you can fire up to the cloud. That&#8217;s excellent news.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the bad news though. It seems that if you cancel your Nintendo Switch Online subscription, Nintendo will immediately delete your cloud saves. There isn&#8217;t a holding period or anything like that, so make sure they&#8217;re backed up.<\/p>\n<p>In short, that&#8217;s pretty much how cloud saving will work on Nintendo Switch. As soon as a game supports it it happens automatically, there are no limitations in terms of file sizes and number of files, and the Switch will always favour a recent save.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep you updated as we learn more.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of Nintendo Switch Online&#8217;s cloud saving system? Are you disappointed it won&#8217;t include all games? Let us know how you feel in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best reasons to sign up for Nintendo Switch Online is cloud saves. Yes, they&#8217;re finally arriving on Thursday when the online service finally launches. To help prepare you for the upcoming changes, we thought we&#8217;d give you a heads up on how cloud saves work on Nintendo Switch. That way you can [&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-48359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48359","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=48359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}