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03-04-2018, 03:44 PM
Nintendo Switch launched one year ago. Your save data is still at risk.
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Nintendo Switch launched on March 3, 2017. Today, exactly one year later, you're still at risk of losing all your save data in the event of a hardware failure.
We've talked about this before (https://mashable.com/2017/06/15/nintendo-switch-saves-reggie/)More than once (https://mashable.com/2017/10/04/nintendo-switch-save-backup-hacking-fans/). It's an ongoing problem. The Switch is a great gaming machine, but this omnipresent dark cloud that still hovers over it is baffling.
SEE ALSO: Thank Nintendo's failed Wii U for the Switch's wild success (https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/nintendo-switch-wii-u-failure-success/)
Can you name another game-playing device released in the past 25 years that didn't offer some way to protect your data? Proprietary memory cards, game cartridges with built-in storage of their own, flash drives, SD cards, cloud storage — different machines do it in different ways, but the feature itself is a given. An expectation. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/03/nintendo-switch-save-data-backup-one-year-later/)
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Nintendo Switch launched on March 3, 2017. Today, exactly one year later, you're still at risk of losing all your save data in the event of a hardware failure.
We've talked about this before (https://mashable.com/2017/06/15/nintendo-switch-saves-reggie/)More than once (https://mashable.com/2017/10/04/nintendo-switch-save-backup-hacking-fans/). It's an ongoing problem. The Switch is a great gaming machine, but this omnipresent dark cloud that still hovers over it is baffling.
SEE ALSO: Thank Nintendo's failed Wii U for the Switch's wild success (https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/nintendo-switch-wii-u-failure-success/)
Can you name another game-playing device released in the past 25 years that didn't offer some way to protect your data? Proprietary memory cards, game cartridges with built-in storage of their own, flash drives, SD cards, cloud storage — different machines do it in different ways, but the feature itself is a given. An expectation. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/03/03/nintendo-switch-save-data-backup-one-year-later/)
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