8 Major Worries For The Nintendo Switch In 2018
5. Still No Word On Cloud Saves
Divert your eyes to the nearest time-keeping device - what year is noted? 1998? 2008? No, it's 2018, the thick of the digital age, a time where digital data is never truly 'lost', thanks to a plethora of safeguards enabling users to backup and keep data - in this case, save games - safe, should something go wrong.
Well, that's how modern-day data protection works for everything other than the Switch, at least.
For all the strides forward its taken with the Wii U's successor, Nintendo still hasn't sussed out that enabling users of its hardware to remotely back up data individually from the console or game cartridge in question is a feature not only expected but borderline mandatory.
The lack of cloud saves could be overlooked if a substitute was in place, but no, with the exception of screenshots, software data can't be moved from the Switch to an external memory storage device without first deleting said data and redownloading it directly to a micro SD card, utterly defeating the point.
Absolutely bonkers that this continues to be an issue.