Author: Eric Ravenscraft / Source: reviewgeek.com
The upcoming Nintendo Switch Online service is scheduled to drop this month, bringing cloud data saves. Some games won’t be included, though, because Nintendo doesn’t want to enable cheaters.
Once it launches, the $20 a year service for your Switch will let users save their games to the cloud and sync them between devices.
However, some games will be left out of this support. In a statement to CNET, Nintendo claims that the majority of games will support cloud data sync, but a few won’t to prevent unfair game manipulation:The vast majority of Nintendo Switch games will support Save Data Cloud backup. However, in certain games this feature would make it possible to, for example, regain items that had been traded to other players, or revert to a higher online multiplayer ranking that had been lost. To ensure fair play, Save Data Cloud backup may not be enabled for such games.
To ensure that Save Data Cloud backups cannot be used to unfairly affect online…
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