Switch Online Will Apparently Delete Your Cloud Saves When Your Subscription Ends

@wookietim: $20 for now at least. Don't you worry it will raise up if there's alot of people subscribing. (Though I highly doubt alot of people will stick around compared to XBL,PSN and PC)

@wookietim: It should be...it offers less than half of what the others offer.

@lionheartssj1: Why?

@Thanatos2k: How is it worthless?

@risingdawn: An actual physical turd has no use or value. Playing online, having cloud saves, deals and discounts and an NES library with online added has a lot of value to a lot of people.

Also, you should read my other comment here for more info, but the gist is this article is lying. Or at least misinformed. PlayStation DOES delete their save backups. 100%. They delete them after 6 months. Nintendo also does NOT delete them right away like this article leads you to believe. They specifically say they delete it "after an extended period of time passed when your subscription ends". They haven't said how long a time. Just that it's an "extended period". Could be a month or six or a year.

Also, they weren't touting local saves as a feature. The article hacked up the actual quote. The original line is referring to the NES app saved state data. For clarification purposes, they said that even though you can't play the NES games after your sub ends, that the data is still stored in the cloud and locally and when your sub continues, you can pick up where you left off. The article clipped out the beginning and end of that quote to make it seem like they were talking about cloud saves in general.

@m7stech: Why are you trying to defend this?

I just don't understand, please provide more information as to why you think "target market do not care about save games so I dont see how this is bad".

@m7stech: lol u think 5 year olds are playing switch ? Buying Zelda and Mario by the millions lol that grown people brah and the online is trash , why delete game save files on a portable system that has more of a chance to break . U need the cloud saves . Nintendo trash for this

@nikolistary: It's not true, though. It's inaccurate reporting. I made a comment here about it with all the info and the proof on Nintendo's own service page. They do NOT delete saved data right when the sub ends. It's just not true.

@Vodoo: I agree even though I save my games locally as much as I can. I do not put my faith in the cloud. As time goes on and the cloud evolves more companies will be moving to an paid cloud and some companies do charge to use thier cloud, it is another type of service that can create income for them. It is one big server in the sky(figuratively talking) that connects to actual servers. While it does suck and they did offer it for free as thier online services was free before Switch, Nintendo saw a way they could increase thier revenue and they took that risk. Many may complain but Nintendo will still come out ahead as long as folks use the service. Guess the saying Things that were free today, may not be free tomorrow.

@Vodoo: what if u drop your switch or it get wet or someone takes it or anything since it's a portable system . Cloud saves more important. Don't want to put 100 hours into zelda switch slips out your hand it's broken and all that time wasted .

@Vodoo: Damage control? these fanboys are a joke, just like those stupid nintendo policies.