This and lots of other historical reasons that I’ve never bought a Playstation or any other Sony product and will continue to boycott them.
This is not the Pokemon game we were asking for. Still need to wait for 2019 unfortunately.
And the hashtag that has been used for MONTHS already is #SaveOurSaves. No need to fracture/confuse things with a duplicate/redundant hashtag.
Backing up via SD/USB is important so that you can manage backup history/versions and protect yourself from corrupted saves overwriting your cloud backup. Also it sucks to have such a critical feature locked behind a subscription paywall.
So here’s my question re: cloud saves:
When something (a game bug or otherwise) corrupts your save file, and then that corrupt version gets synced to the cloud storage and overwrites your intact one, are you screwed?
This is one of the reasons I was more of a proponent of backing up to SD card, where you can…
The “defect” is actually at Nintendo’s end. There was an extremely thorough analysis on the various ways Nintendo failed to properly follow the USB-C PD spec here:
State of MY Switch? Paranoia every time I pick it up, because a year later and we STILL don’t have a way to backup our save games to MicroSD. COME ON, NINTENDO!!! #SaveOurSaves
So now we have: