Zelda Fans Are Worried Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 Version Won't Support Cloud Saves

The Nintendo Switch 2 is acceptable to get peculiar enhanced versions of respective Switch 1 games, including The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A recently spotted disclaimer has fans worrying immoderate games, oregon astatine slightest 1 game, won't enactment Nintendo's unreality prevention functionality arsenic they'd hope.

Over the past time oregon so, users person been noticing that Nintendo's pages for Tears of the Kingdom's Switch 2 variation carries the pursuing disclaimer: "Please note: this bundle does not enactment the Nintendo Switch Online paid membership’s Save Data Cloud backup feature."

Per ResetEra, the leafage for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Switch 2 Edition besides seemingly carried this disclaimer astatine 1 point, arsenic did Super Mario Party Jamboree - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV.

Though it's since disappeared from those pages, the Tears of the Kingdom inactive has the disclaimer arsenic of this writing. The Japanese leafage though, per Eurogamer via instrumentality translation, does not transportation the aforesaid disclaimer; lone the US and EU pages look to beryllium showing it.

IGN has reached retired to Nintendo for clarification connected the matter.

If this holds true, this could make immoderate confusing scenarios for players. Nintendo's unreality prevention enactment for NSO members is handy, for one. It makes carrying games crossed systems, oregon juggling retention abstraction for games without losing your saved progress, a small little stres-inducing.

Actually importing a prevention record from the archetypal Switch to the Switch 2 Edition of Tears of the Kingdom does look to inactive work. The Nintendo leafage noted an further prevention slot for the Switch 2 Edition, wherever 1 tin commencement a brand-new travel oregon "continue a erstwhile 1 with your existing prevention data." Nintendo does enactment that prevention information created successful the 2nd prevention information slot cannot beryllium trasnferred to the Nintendo Switch 1 mentation of Tears of the Kingdom.

It's a confusing concern that tin perchance pb to immoderate stress, arsenic players would apt not privation to suffer a prevention record they've dumped many, galore hours into erstwhile upgrading versions. Hopefully, this gets cleared up soon.

The Switch 2 Edition does person a fewer reasons for prospective Switch 2 owners to upgrade, including the Zelda Notes app, which comes packed with adjuvant guiding content, lore, and adjacent immoderate imaginable instrumentality repair options.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.