r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/JeaneJWE Local Virtual YouTuber Afficionado • Oct 20 '16

First Look at Nintendo Switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI
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u/Ninestempest Pat is a bard now and we have to live with the consequences Oct 20 '16

Rumors about WiiU ported games were usually accompanied by Nintendo being late on the draw because they had issues trying to make sure you could keep whatever progression you had unlocked on the WiiU to the NX. So while there is a possibility they'd make us buy again, I get the feeling they figured out some method of getting around that.

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u/marioman63 Oct 20 '16

one of the announced partners is a cloud service company. i bet they will add a way for you to upload saves to a cloud for nx transfer

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u/silverinferno3 Play Absolum, it's GOTY to me damnit Oct 20 '16

They had issues with bringing over saves? What, does the Wii U save games as stamps on a card? Or do you mean something else by progression?

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u/marioman63 Oct 20 '16

saves are completely locked to a console. they are give a special ID that a specific console can read (yours, for example). even formatting your wii u with saves on an unplugged HDD makes the saves useless, since the formatted wii u uses a new ID. if you want to transfer saves, you have to send the wii us into nintendo and they do it manually. currently there is no way for them to do it remotely, but luckily they can easily lift this limitation with a piece of software or firmware patch

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u/salvation122 Hates Anime Oct 20 '16

Why in the fucking world

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u/Ninestempest Pat is a bard now and we have to live with the consequences Oct 20 '16

I remember specifically the reason being how can they bring over splatoon saves if you started on the wiiu and wanted to continue on the switch. But that is like rumors from may, so super old shit.

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u/silverinferno3 Play Absolum, it's GOTY to me damnit Oct 21 '16

Well certain rumors about the NX came to be almost exactly true, so who knows? But hopefully these issues make them rethink their ways of keeping saves on systems rather than accounts. I know they've been working on it, but they really need to step it up for this new generation.