Nintendo Removes Worrying Cloud Save Note From Select Switch 2 Game Pages

Makes absolutely 0 sense. This devalues NSO so much.

I think somebody made a mistake and that message isn’t supposed to be there and these games absolutely will support cloud saves and, as usual, the internet is making a mountain out of a molehill.

Isn't this because these games have different upressed data and extra's? So it's basically not the same game with Zelda notes added....

Also: where did you get the "No cloud save for Switch 2" thing? Is that true?

And then we still have the cart swap/lending thing from the NS1 direct which will probably do the same thing?

Nintendo just keeps being like

This is their revenge for everyone exploiting the duplication glitch.

Great.... 🙄
It makes Switch 2 entering the Wii U route.

Okay, this make zero sense. Nintendo needs to fix that before release.
#edit: i read that you can indeed transfer your save data from switch 1 to 2.
Okay i can breathe again haha.

Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to get my Switch 2, but...well...could this be the worst console launch ever?

• Prices that caught everyone off guard.
• Delayed pre-order dates.
• Overviews updated with features removed.
• Overviews with errors.
• Seemingly one sole third party embracing physical media.
• No Super Monkey Ball at launch.

Now I am not saying everything is Nintendo's fault here. The global economy is a crap shoot at the moment, but it feels like they could have used more time, but then again, how will the world look next week? Either way, it looks easy to start losing confidence in the hardware (because of the messaging or lack thereof. Different hymn sheets etc.) I mean, the games look amazing!

Maybe Nintendo should have avoided talking specs like they traditionally do (that might touch on losing their identity?). All the fps,vrr, resolution talk is steering conversation away from their games. Edit - I might be actually doing them a disservice there, as their chat doesn't tend to go beyond 'improved frame rate' etc.

Possible contenders

• XBox One (legendary fail but in hindsight, pretty much where we are today. Go figure...)
• Wii U (Branding failure.)
• PS3 (Probably priced worse than the Switch 2!)
• 3DS (Over priced leading to a price cut / ambassasor programme.)
• PS Vita (Restrictingly proprietary hardware.)
• Virtual Boy (Headache inducingly flawed design.)
• SEGA Saturn (Sloppy timing.)
• Atari Jaguar (Trevor McFur. Nuff said!)

You're f-ing up, Nintendo.

I would suspect this is just a website error, but will wait for official confirmation, seems utterly bizarre to be true.

Why are Nintendo doing it again??? Do they not learn from their last mistakes???

@GrailUK
I'm afraid Switch 2 will be fallen even harder than Wii U sales when I see the situation like this.
First impression was already ruined.

@Anti-Matter everybodies next generation is going to be very challenging over the next 4 years.

... maybe cloud is only for $80 games...
or why not payed DLC?
Anything is possible!

Considering none of the main Pokemon games on Switch supported cloud saves and still sold a bazillion copies, I think it's a complete non-issue for most people.

It's still annoying to see Nintendo fumble communication like this.

As for the reasons, I suspected as much for BotW and TotK because of the Zelda Notes app. Nintendo probably want to prevent item duping shenanigans, even though they're single player games and people cheating has absolutely zero consequences. But what do I know?

Unforced error after unforced error. Nintendo, WTF?!? It’s some every other generation curse. All this stupid nonsense is piling up and is going to stick with the Switch 2.

It's already been confirmed that you can move save data from original Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom to the Switch 2 Edition, so this may just mean that you can't use the same save data directly but instead need to import it through game or something. Same note on DK Bananza's page seems like a mistake, though.

Anyway, people should calm down and wait until we have confirmation about it. This wouldn't be the first time people have jumped the gun about something Switch 2 related, only for it to turn out to be false information.

Nobody cares about the launch of a Nintendo console outside of us. People come on-board, or don't, when their friends start playing the games and talking in the playground.

If true it's a odd choice, but then again it's Nintendo were talking about here. With every new console there are weird decisions to raise your eyebrows at.

@Anti-Matter Nah, it's going to be fine. Look, I get it, people are not satisfied with the pricing. It seems to me like people are trying to find something to complain about only to justify their own anger.

However, as we've already seen multiple times (with stuff like Game Key Cards etc), there's been a lot of misinformation about it. Yes, Nintendo has messed up with some of their communication. But people really need to learn some patience and wait a bit before storming the internet with their "Nintendo is doomed" and "this is Wii U again" rants.

@GrailUK You also need to register your phone number with Nintendo if you want to use GameChat.

June 5th is still a month an a half out, things will get sorted, stuff will make sense … chill out a bit. Reading through the comments lately it seems Nintendo visited you personally and trashed your living room.

@BenAV Yeah, the games look phenomenal. You can see the years of development in Mario Kart. Probably overlooked or taken for granted but that open world can't have been easy to design.

Does anyone at Nintendo realize what the hell they are doing with this console launch ... and how abysmal it has been ??? Prices aside, it has been a real s***-show.

Well this renders the entire history of Nintendo games entirely unplayable forever!

Sarcasm btw. I'm sure it's just an error on the website.

Maybe Nintendo woke up and decides to sabotage their own investment, out of pure greed.

Come on Nintendo get a grip, I was going to port my TOTK CLOUD save over to my Switch 2.
I do not want to start again. Then again Nintendo will lose out as they won’t get my £10 upgrade. Hang on I get it for free but what’s the point if I can’t bring my save over from switch CLOUD.

I really hope this is just a typo error, I pay for online and I definitely expect this to work.

Instead of keep having more directs, just focus on getting this correct and running.

Actually the only one out of the big three that does perfectly cloud saves is Xbox.

Actually I have just woke up.
What about all my over game Cloud saves I was going to port over to Switch 2.
I have about ten I wanted to do.

This needs sorting Nintendo, you are making switch 2 very unappealing, along with possible no VRR when docked as well.
I can always cancel my preorder and about 3 to 6 months until they get their act together.

Not like they have had 8 years to get this right.

Sounds like a copy-paste error to me. Careful with the templates, intern!

@Cathalm Completely devalues it for me — it's the only reason I pay for it.

@KoopaTheGamer yeah, this comment section is def getting way too pessimistic ahead of time, and I agree with you, the pricing rub people the wrong way and now every little thing (which might be a mistake) is getting elevated to the 10th as some kinda deal breaker.
The internet overall seems to have lost any sense of critical analysis, I feel like people have to absolutely love something, or despise and hate on every comment section there is (which is like 90% of the time lol)

I prefer to have the save files on the console because I'm an old git. So this doesn't bother me.

This is the only dodge thing with Nintendo compared to Sony and Xbox who will get these details right and let everyone know the exact correct information.

As where Nintendo sort of treats its gamers and fans like kids and children and doesn’t go into the detail of things.

I get that but you need both, simple and fun and detail for us that like the detail.

...What's the point in creating a brand new next generation console cycle if you're not even going to attempt to fix these kinds of problems from the previous generation?

Probably just because the switch 2 versions are different than the of switch 1 versions. Could corrupt saves if you want to play them on the old switch again. Wouldn't overreact to this.

@GrailUK to add to the list of contenders for worst console launch: the 3DS being overpriced so much that months later the price had to be dropped $70 to get it to sell. Then let’s add the Vita which had pretty much no internal memory and used proprietary memory cards which were way too expensive.

There is a common factor to all of those terrible launches. Each one comes after a company’s previous console did extremely well and they thought they could do no wrong. It all comes down to hubris. These game companies think after their last console sold so well they can get away with no longer being consumer friendly. They can either rebound in the next generation (Sony with PS4 and Nintendo with Switch) or keep fumbling the ball (Microsoft still hasn’t fully recovered from the terrible XBOne reveal to this day). The fact this is the 3rd god damn time Nintendo has done this is inexcusable though

Nintendo always seem to find a way to make things unnecessarily complicated, awkward and frustrating for their fans. ☹️

Go home Nintendo,
you're drunk.

Just Nintendo doing odd Nintendo things. Hopefully this is just bad wording and it's just that Switch 2 games will have a new name for same feature or something.

I gotta say the messaging they have had for Switch 2 has been kind of a train wreck.

Well this is a complete mess. But let's not forget some of (or all?) the Pokemon games also didn't let you use cloud saves. All games should support it, I don't see why they wouldn't.

Is Nintendo intentionally trying to piss off their base? It's been nothing but a mess since the Switch 2 reveal. What is going on with this company?! This makes no sense to me

Can we please go a day without another PR/messaging nightmare? What the hell is going on at Nintendo?

@Sebos this is exactly the reason. The same reason Pokemon games never ever get to have any kind of save backup officially.

The official Virtual Console 3DS releases of the Game Boy games didn't have a save/restore state button, like every other game.

They don't want people duplicating items easily.

Anyway, that seems weird for Bananza. Maybe there are ways to share items or something, and that would be the same reason.

@PloverNutter Well said. It's like these companies are allergic to success. Nintendo got too arrogant with the Switch and are doing so many anti consumer and ridiculous things with the Switch 2. They must believe it's going to be another runaway success no matter what they do. That's a dangerous way of thinking in my opinion. Needlessly upsetting your fan base and consumers is ridiculous. If this thing struggles selling it'll be all Nintendo's fault

@Anti-Matter "Switch 2 will be fallen even harder than Wii U"

Extremely childish analysis based on nothing but constant whining from terminally online gamers.

People outside of this enthusiast bubble don't care about 90% of things people are complaining about rn, if you really think Switch 2 is gonna do worse than Wii U then I have a bridge to sell to you.

Please tell me it's still the 1st April.
I wonder if they want to charge more for an additional expansion pack for backing switch 2 saves up.

@Jack_Goetz Constantly!!

If that is the case that's quite stupid, though it's a feature I have turned off anyway so not personally that fussed about it.

just when i started thinking nintendo began being forward thinking with a 120hz display with vrr, they accept not even being able to make cloud saves work across the board.

I wonder why. That seems kinda strange to me.

@AG_Awesome i think they decided some games are too complicated to make it work for because they didn't design for it beforehand, maybe it's about the base game being switch 1 compatible. unjustifiable imho in the current year. steam has been doing it for free forever.

Probably no skin off the backs of some folks unironically declaring that the save cloud in a game like BotW or TotK is useless due to the "largely similar nature"of every playthrough. As someone who once dumbly lost and replayed a 50 hour Tales of Phantasia savefile (good thing the game had floored me enough to motivate that), I couldn't make it up if I tried.

Anyhoo, all the reported discrepancies suggest that the fine print is likely reserved for next gen mons, squid kids and real estate raccoon dogs again but getting mixed into the wrong bowls description-wise.

@GrailUK this being yet another such contender list that outright forgets Virtual Boy is what makes any other contender frankly redundant.

@PloverNutter I agree with you from a slightly different perspective. When you aren't in first place you try harder. Neccessity is the father of invention and all that.

@nhSnork Well I'll edit it and include it. (Wasn't intending my post to be some sort of historical document hahaha!)

@PloverNutter I'll add those to the list Ty

@AllBLK it is especially stupid since a huge reason the switch is a massive success is due to Covid happening. Yes it was doing really well before but it cannot be understated how much Covid helped to drive up sales on the console. People bought a game console that hadn’t bought one since the Wii as they were stuck inside for months on end and needed something to do with their families. The switch was cheaper than any other game console at the time, had games with a focus on local multiplayer, and came with two controllers out of the box. It was the perfect console for any family that needed a way to entertain their kids during lockdown. The switch 2 does not have that benefit anymore especially since the price is a lot closer to their competitors’ prices now. A significant portion of the people who bought the switch are going to have no interest in getting the switch 2 and somehow Nintendo fails to realize that so they are okay with pissing off the people who would have bought it day one before.

Sounds like a website error most likely, given it's not on the Japanese page.

Not gonna stop the internet from being melodramatic though

@AllBLK oh it DOES make sense, they are just trying to understand how much they can push it before profits (not sales) begin to decrease. That's why if you can't afford their products or you aren't so interested in them anymore, they don't really care as long as they're still earning.
I'm personally hoping they are going to see that limit soon.

This would be psychotic, but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until confirmed

@IceClimbers Any excuse for a Spanish soap opera around these parts...

Prophets of Nintendoom at it again! Get‘s a bit old …

I bet you they’re fake screenshots made by people who are starving for attention.

@GrailUK I’m definitely thinking it’ll end up similar to the PS3, albeit not as bad. It’ll probably have a slightly rough start, but it will likely find it’s footing and start performing well.

@Sebos It’s Pokémon. Nobody cares about anything when it comes to Pokémon.

@Vil

This is the real reason they added GameCube games, to put a bandage over the wound of having shoddy cloud support for no real reason.

Nintendo always seem to be a step (or two) behind, when it comes to standard online functions...

One more reason to stay away from NSO. They will either create a separate tier for NSW2 backups or make it free... Yeah right. As if today's Nintendo would make anything free.

all it had to be was a more powerful switch with some extra hardware features. The price changes, the horrible case art, the game key card, the bad messaging and the lack of a solid launch line up is frustrating.

I preordered because I happened to land on the oppurtunity to do so and I'm a guy who has become completely jaded with Sony.

I wanted to go back to a more simple world, no achievements and bright colorful games. I will get that but man I really wanted to be excited but it's been nothing but bad news day after day.

I did get a Wii U within its first 2 years, felt burnt by that and went back to PS. Missing out on Switch right up till early last year when I got a second hand lite since it was so cheap.

I want to be excited and I mostly am but I'm so fearful we're marching into another Wii U esque scenario, probably more 3DS but man Nintendo why have you missed this open goal of a oppurtunity to grow even beyond the Switch. The greed they are showing is killing momentum and it is such a pointless thing for them to have done.

@Solid_Python except how many casuals buy $500 systems. And then get to me how many casuals buy $500 in uncertain economic times?

Enthusiasts have to buy this for it to be successful.

@Cathalm Yeah the other things are okay, but if it weren't for cloud saves I'd probably be okay canceling my subscription.

@electrolite77 you share nintendos same confidence and or pride. And we all know pride goes before the fall.

That good old Nintendo arrogance when successful rearing its head.

All things considered I don't think it's as bad as many make out. Granted I would like some clarity on this VRR on monitors grey area. It sounds worth investing in a monitor maybe.
I think what is happening is, there is clearly widespread whiplash projected at Nintendo because it's the path of least resistance, caused by a broarder sense of instability and insecurity elsewhere in the world. I feel it. And I am far and away not unique.

I'll add Saturn btw. That's a good one

To say how keen Nintendo appear to be with their brand and image, and the reams of paperwork they generate, the end product of all this has been a little sloppy with the Switch 2 info and marketing

@LunarFlame17 Until Nintendo clarifies what's going on, I can only hope you're right. Removing save data back-up would be a disaster.

Despite my complaints about how Nintendo handles save data in general - the Tl;Dr is I don't mind cloud saves being an option, but I do mind that it's the only LEGAL option - I think many are jumping the gun. The inconsistency of the "fine print" between sites seems key. Let's wait until we hear from the horse's mouth first.

A lot of our society seems trained to react, not respond. There IS a difference.

"The launch can't get any worse, Dimjimmer. You are just being a negative nelly at this point."
Then I remember that there are still 6 more weeks till launch.

On another note, I'm still baffled that Dark Souls supports cloud save just fine in all platforms, except for the Switch.

No cloud saves! What!

@electrolite77 some people are literally foaming at the mouth over any possible bad Switch 2 news…the usual suspects flood the comment sections and start trying to create disarray with anyone who’s not pretending to freak out like they are…

@Anti-Matter I have something to thank Nintendo for now, because I was actually considering NSO.

I've literally just finished Bayonetta and going to do 2 and 3 next to try and reduce my backlog over Easter Holidays 😎

@RadioShadow Except depending on how old we're talking most savegames were either stored on the cartridge directly or on a memory card (semantics I know)

With regards to cloud saves I think it's super anti-consumer to have it gated behind NSO anyway, so Nintendo lost me on this out of the gate with the first Switch

Damn. It seems like every decision Nintendo has made lately has been so anti-consumer.

• Overpricing games
• New controllers that lack analogue shoulder buttons and don't address the stick drift issues
• Game chat video sharing being deliberatly capped at 10 frames per second
• Removing Gold Points
• Not having Vouchers for Switch 2 games
• Game key-cards and Virtual game cards being worse than the current physical and digital games
• and now this...

It feels like you can predict Nintendo's next move by thinking 'What is the worst possible decision they can make?'

What’s the point of cloud saves then?

I don't understand why it wouldn't be functional with Zelda and Donkey Kong, which are single-player games.

@SabreLevant You want your cloud storage for free … anything on the side? Please let me set up another server for you!

Why get Switch 2 game when you can't save to cloud files?

@jfp see my earlier comment…

"Oho, you missed that one, try another!"
-Mad Dog McCree

@xzacutor don’t take part then. Life goes on.

why am I paying for a service that is hit or miss on doing what it sells itself as?

@GrailUK Saturn had a whole lot more against it than bad timing. An entire generation of undermining consumer confidence with constant mandatory add-ons I'd say was a far bigger issue lol. Though Saturn and 32X being announced simultaneously sure didn't help.

I feel they'll reintroduce cloud saves at a later time. It wasn't initially launched with Switch 1.

Some games are 70 dollars, some are 90. Some support cloud save, some do not. Some Switch games will work on Switch 2, some will not. Buying games is becoming more and more of a hassle, where you have to do research before buying anything. Do they think grandma will do her research when she buys little Timmy new Super Mario for Christmas? Of course not. With so many exceptions to the rule, it is a big turn off.

I can't even find the NoA pages for the games where I might see that disclaimer, so I wonder if it is just an error with one region's listings.

This is why I only buy physical.

Wait.

Surely, they must have something in place of those cloud saves then. I can't understand why they would just remove it. Not to mention that it's a base feature of NSO.

Eh. They will likely have to do a major update to NSO at launch or over time as they have done as is. This is pretty meaningless to me. At this point this is the normal Nintendoomed sayings. I do think Nintendo needs to adjust sales projections down (and I am preparing for that further hit to my 401k…I am literally too old for this. Feels like my generation’s version of Enron.) because the market is too unstable to make reasonable projections now.

At one time my interest was as high as you could go, and I planned to buy two at launch with no questions asked. Now I'm actually considering not buying one at all and having the switch be possibly my last Nintendo console. Nintendo is gonna Nintendo, as time goes by it seems like they just might be doing it without me. Honestly, this has been a colossal failure of a launch so far.

If you want to use cloud, that's terrible. Things are getting worse and worse at Nintendo.

So does that mean I can't transfer my save data from S1 to S2?

So, like, is Nintendo even ready for launch in a month?...

Would it kill them to allow users to manually back-up save data like in the Wii days?

Hopefully this is a mistake/oversight and it'll get updated to reflect support for cloud saves..makes zero sense for a new launch game like DK to not support cloud save backups!

@jfp It's 2025 and Nintendo is making money hand over fist, of course I expect cloud saves for free, don't be obtuse.

@LunarFlame17 I really dislike comments like this. It's obviously the consumers problem right, not the corporation for making mistakes in communication? Lol. While I agree this is probably a mistake this wouldn't be the first time select Switch 1st party titles didn't have cloud saved available. Splatoon 2, Pokemon Let's Go and Sword and Shield (prob the others as well) and Animal Crossing all have this issue.

I think it's an error or has something to do with this, which is another disclaimer on the page:

Save data created in the second save data slot in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition cannot be transferred to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on Nintendo Switch.

@Solid_Python every post from him is a dig and more praise for his beloved PS5.

Can't believe he gets a free ride on this site.

@GrailUK Saturn had a horrible time in the west but had amazing support in Japan. It was another one of those underdog flop consoles with an amazing back catalogue. I was bang into Capcom fighting games at the time and they gave it brilliant support, plus all the amazing sprite based and Treasure games….I thoroughly enjoyed its short lived run.

@WiltonRoots One of my fave consoles. Still own it

@GrailUK same here. Top 5 console for me.

@WiltonRoots Ooooh, I try to not do the whole top this and that thing lol. Takes up far too much of my day wondering about it

That's not cool

This, combined with the price increases on controllers has me seriously questioning my pre-order. This is quickly getting into Apple levels of arrogance (and I’m an iPhone/Mac owner!) if this is true, it will dilute half the reason I am even buying this thing (perfected versions of two Zelda games-my all time favorites)

This seems like inaccurate rage bait. Also I’m always surprised how mad people get over this topic. I must be the only person on earth who has never used cloud saves in my entire life and I’ve been obsessively playing video games since 1987.

Pfff, Nintendo didn't need to plan this launch! They have a loyal userbase and have bumped up the tech exponentially. This is gonna go over ten times bigger than the first Wii-- I mean, Switch. Did I say Wii? I meant Switch.

...All snarking aside, this is making Nintendo's handling of the first Switch seem so much more careful and ambitious in hindsight. The Wii died with diminishing support from Nintendo and general disinterest from third parties. The Switch, meanwhile, will have new titles coming down the pike for a while, and it's already outlasted two new PlayStation launches by its sheer down-to-earth nature.

I can't forecast whether the Switch 2 will fail or not-- Nintendo's cruel bet on price hikes and 'Nintendults' to buoy sales may yet yield profit-- but I'm beginning to realize we had no idea how good things have been. And the mixed messaging about what the new console can and can't do is placing them on increasingly shaky ground.

It's dangerous to go without cloud saves! WHY NINTENDO?

Why we getting charged for NSO then?

Well this is confusing, they added the option the add an extra save state so that you can start a new game while keeping your old save, but how are we getting that save on out new shiny Switch 2 is cloud saves are not supported??

My best guess then is that you can do a system transfer from a Switch 1 when you initially set up your Switch 2?

Or perhaps they will have some sort of transfer feature to transfer save data (and possible virtual game carts) between Switch 1 and Switch 2.

It's odd, I guess time will tell

There's no way. I can't see this being true, unless they've somehow messed up so bad that Switch 2 edition saves are for some reason incompatible with Switch 1 versions (that would super suck). This just flies in the face of the digital game cartridge thing - one step forward, and one major step back if I can't just continue on either of my switch console generations.

And then DK not supporting it makes even less sense. Come on Nintendo. Don't let this be true

It says so on the Tears of the Kingdom page BUT NOT on the Breath of the Wild page.

Yeah, I am going to place this under "translation error" for now.

Also I can't find it anywhere on the US or JP pages.

That’s good. Glad we can finally drop this garbage tech.

You don't even have the option to back-up you're games offline. 🤣 If your Switch need repair it's bye bye save files.

@EggSlayer This is the reason I find it so anti-consumer - not only do they charge for a feature that is so cheap for them to implement and various game services have provided for free for over a decade, but they have also taken away the option to back up your saves to try and push people towards NSO, despicable really.

@SabreLevant agree, they watched Sony closely. PS5 doesn't have a save game back-upfunction as well. The PS4 had and they removed that feature to push people into online sub.

Nintendo Switch 2 launch: https://youtu.be/pne-wwa128U?si=1P0qAvXOlmQEKcc8

@electrolite77 Funnily enough I decided to take a trip back in time, some of the comments are hilarious - it is the same thing all over again...

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/01/nintendo_switch_will_cost_p279_99_in_the_uk

@WiltonRoots Just take a look at the whole "Dexit" thing with Pokémon Sword and Shield. "Everyone" would boycott the game because of it.

It was the best selling Pokémon game up until Scarlet and Violet.
Ever.

And with this, I honestly believe it's an error. But NoE needs to clarify it.

THe only way I could see this make sense would be if the new "Virtual card" system is meant to take over save storage and it's not TECHNICALLY cloud saving or at least not cloud saving tied to NSO.

That being said I hope they didn't do something dumb like forget to let people transfer their existing cloud saved to the new system if that's the case.

@WiltonRoots Interesting. I was a somewhat late adopter of the Switch.

I had largely drifted away from mario games and RPG franchises like Xenoblade were still niche and not even on the system at launch.

Plus the failure of the Wii U made me take more of a "wait and see" approach.

But seeing people fuss over the price then is definitely telling.

@Grumblevolcano Really? That's insane.

I could see TotK due to the Zelda Notes. Maybe players could abuse saving items and reloading. Maybe it could be exploited for hacking.

But the other games I'm sure will have cloud saves.

@Grumblevolcano This is good, as it provides another filtering method to weed out bad actors, in addition to making it friends-only, and whitelist-only for minors.

Probably just stating that switch 2 saves cannot be sent to the switch 1 version and vice versa.

@electrolite77 oh man the 2D stuff on there is phenomenal, some of the arcade conversions of shooters ran better on the Saturn due to its ridiculously good sprite handling. I remember playing DoDonPachi in the arcade and it having slowdown, yet it never slowed down on the Saturn at all. Plus it had a Ghouls n Ghosts collection with the SNES Super Ghouls n Ghosts on it with zero slowdown at all…

If that is the case for Switch 2 games why would one even buy them? Then one would use their BOTW/TOTK Switch 1 games with upgrades does that mean this doesn't work???? They need to seriously fix this or explain what they are doing with Cloud Saves.

I'd say we've reached the point in the internet timeline where people will freak out about anything without confirmation, and just spread whatever misinformation they want. I doubt this is true, but if it is, I also doubt most people would care. It's crazy to me though the amount of people I'm hearing (both on and offline) claiming things that are just wrong. If this launch does go badly, the spread of propaganda and misinformation by the online community will be more to blame than a single $80 game....

@electrolite77 sorry I didn’t see him reference wii u numbers. That’s insane.

Maybe post an update?

The Nintendo website has removed the disclaimers from the TotK NS2 Edition and DK Bananza pages. So they do actually support cloud saves.

Update: in another highly predictable turn of events, it looks like the fuss was for nothing.

What a relief.

Yeah this makes sense, seemed way too ridiculous to just remove it entirely.

Still, not great communication from Nintendo though.

Similar to the confusion over the messaging around full games not being on the cartridge. Nintendo doesn't seem to know WTF they're doing this console launch. It all feels very messy.