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The new paid online service from Nintendo is getting worse. Your saved cloud will be deleted as soon as you let your subscription expire.Credit: Nintendo
Nintendo has released the details of its online service and many of them are not beautiful.
Although the price of playing online games on your Nintendo Switch is lower than Xbox Live with Gold or PlayStation Plus, Nintendo's online service is riddled with problems. One of them is the fact that users have to log in each week to maintain access to the NES games included in the service.
Another problem, perhaps the most glaring one, is the fact that cloud backups stored in your Nintendo Switch will be automatically deleted when your online subscription runs out. This means, quite frankly, that if you're about to beat one of the cloud-aware games (not all) and you let your subscription fail by mistake, all your saved achievements will disappear in bulk.
This is from Nintendo's Nintendo Switch Online FAQ, which reads in part as follows:
After the expiry of my Nintendo Switch Online subscription, will my Save Data Cloud and Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online files be deleted?
Data saved with Save Data Cloud can not be stored outside the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online also uses the Save Data Cloud, as well as the same. However, if you keep the Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online saves locally saved data to your Nintendo Switch console, so you can reuse it if you buy another subscription.
Ouch.
Yes, you can backup your backups locally and, based on this information, you should probably do so. But the policy itself is either draconian or another example of Nintendo that went wrong with the rollout of the paid online service a few days before it went into service.
Sony retains cloud backups for six months after the end of your PS + subscription, giving players enough time to back up the files saved on their PS4. Meanwhile, Microsoft has the least bad option of the three main consoles, allowing cloud backups to remain indefinitely even if you do not restart your subscription.
This is Nintendo's first foray into a paid online subscription service and it appears that the company has not performed due diligence with respect to competitive learning. Hopefully policies such as this one will be removed in the future and that Nintendo Switch owners express their concerns. You can follow Nintendo of America on Twitter here.
Further reading:
- Discover here the 20 NES games available on the Nintendo switch.
- Nintendo Switch Online requires weekly connections to maintain access to NES games.
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The new paid online service from Nintendo is getting worse. Your saved cloud will be deleted as soon as you let your subscription expire.Credit: Nintendo
Nintendo has released the details of its online service and many of them are not beautiful.
Although the price of playing online games on your Nintendo Switch is lower than Xbox Live with Gold or PlayStation Plus, Nintendo's online service is riddled with problems. One of them is the fact that users have to log in each week to maintain access to the NES games included in the service.
Another problem, perhaps the most glaring one, is the fact that cloud backups stored in your Nintendo Switch will be automatically deleted when your online subscription runs out. This means, quite frankly, that if you're about to beat one of the cloud-aware games (not all) and you let your subscription fail by mistake, all your saved achievements will disappear in bulk.
This is from Nintendo's Nintendo Switch Online FAQ, which reads in part as follows:
After the expiry of my Nintendo Switch Online subscription, will my Save Data Cloud and Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online files be deleted?
Data saved with Save Data Cloud can not be stored outside the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online also uses the Save Data Cloud, as well as the same. However, if you keep the Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online saves locally saved data to your Nintendo Switch console, so you can reuse it if you buy another subscription.
Ouch.
Yes, you can backup your backups locally and, based on this information, you should probably do so. But the policy itself is either draconian or another example of Nintendo that went wrong with the rollout of the paid online service a few days before it went into service.
Sony retains cloud backups for six months after the end of your PS + subscription, giving players enough time to back up the files saved on their PS4. Meanwhile, Microsoft has the least bad option of the three main consoles, allowing cloud backups to remain indefinitely even if you do not restart your subscription.
This is Nintendo's first foray into a paid online subscription service and it appears that the company has not performed due diligence with respect to competitive learning. Hopefully policies such as this one will be removed in the future and that Nintendo Switch owners express their concerns. You can follow Nintendo of America on Twitter here.
Further reading:
