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This morning's Nintendo Direct video presentation was full of exciting details about the gameplay and features in next month's Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Switch. But the presentation also confirmed some details about the game's save file management that will be unwelcome news to anyone who wants to back up their Animal Crossing island or play the game on more than one Switch unit.
Like all Switch games, Animal Crossing: New Horizons won't let players simply copy a save file to an SD card for easy local backup purposes. But New Horizons will also be one of the few games that doesn't even allow unlimited cloud backups if you subscribe to the Nintendo Switch Online service.
That means there's no convenient way to access the same Animal Crossing save file across multiple Switch systems. The best you can do is coordinate and use the game's online functions to 'visit' the island from a secondary system.
A note on the European Nintendo site suggests that 'a function specific to Animal Crossing: New Horizons to move users and save data to another console is planned for release later this year. But the US version of the site simply says 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons does not support the ability to transfer your save file from one Nintendo Switch system to another.' We've reached out to Nintendo about this discrepancy and will let you know if we hear back.
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AdvertisementWhat if something bad happens to the original save file on your Switch? 'We're planning to offer a service for recovering backed up data from the server in certain circumstances such as console damage or loss,' Nintendo said during today's video presentation. According to the fine print, though, this capability will require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription and can only be performed once.
Par for the course
These save restrictions are somewhat in keeping with the spirit of the Animal Crossing series. The games are supposed to take place in a single, persistent town that progresses and changes throughout the year (that also may be why different users on a single Switch system will play on 'one shared island'). Using save-scumming or external save file modifications to alter that process would go against that artistic intent.
Previous Animal Crossing games have used the character Mr. Resetti to hammer this point home by yelling at players who quit the game without saving. Resetti will reportedly not appear in New Horizons, though, since the game uses the Switch's auto-save feature to track progress continuously.
Issues with save file management aren't exactly new for Nintendo, which didn't have