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byRick Schumann ( 4662797 ) writes:
I've never had and never will have game consoles. Can you even play single-player games on this thing at all? Or are you forced to pay for their 'service' to use it at all? Or is it somewhere between the two: you can play single-player games, but they're so lame in single-player mode that it's too boring for people to stand?
bydrinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes:
I've never had and never will have game consoles. Can you even play single-player games on this thing at all?
You can, but there's no way to back up your saves. The only backup is to Nintendo's cloud, and not all games even support that. Nintendo has been criticized for only making games and systems for non-serious gamers before, but it was always only half-true at most. This time, it's completely true.
bysremick ( 91371 ) writes:
I love my Switch, and you not only CAN play single-player games, but there is no shortage of amazing single-player experiences out there. These are pretty much the only sorts of games I play and enjoy. If you are assuming all console gaming now is online multi-player, you're sorely mistaken and grossly out of touch of the reality of the game market.
One of the main reasons I'll be buying the online service is for the save game backups, honestly. However, I'm furious about the fact that the feature is left ou
byGolddess ( 1361003 ) writes:
I'm worried that Animal Crossing (which I genuinely love) will get the same treatment.
I'm sure that it will. I kinda skipped City Folk so I don't know how it handled saves, but New Leaf (at least the digital release) you effectively could not back up your save. I mean, nothing stopped you from copying the file, and as long as you never ever opened New Leaf again it was fine. But the moment you did that backup became useless. I don't know how it worked exactly, I guess there was some system value that got compared, and if the value on the save file did not match it was considered corrupt. And after a successful comparison, the save would be updated with a new value before you even did anything.
But that said, is that really any different from not being able to backup a save because it is on the cartridge?
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