Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Your Storage Data Are at Risk!

With Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo not only prevents cloud backup, but also uses other restrictive measures that are questionable. In the future, you should take very, very good care of your switch.

Nintendo made it clear early on that Animal Crossing: New Horizons would not support store data cloud backup to prevent cheating. The frustration among the players was great given the enormous amount of hours that are usually put into the series. But with a German pre-order card it is now clear that things will get much worse. This shows that New Horizons will not allow memory data to be transferred from one switch to another. That is, should you, for whatever reason, buy a new switch, you will have to start the game all over again. Correctly read.

The reasons for this extremely restrictive measure are not given, but they are easy to deduce. As is known, players on a switch can only use the same island, even if they use different accounts. If a user account now transfers its saved data to another console, this would not only be a transfer, but also a copy process, since the other accounts could continue to use the same game status on the old console. Since Nintendo wants to prevent any manipulation by copying stored data, the most obvious reason for the restriction should be. The ban on data transfer is presumably closely linked to shared island use.

Your storage data is now delivered to the console without any protection. Especially when it comes to a title that takes years and hundreds of hours for players to be a no-go! The measure does not only harm players, it even cuts Nintendo into its own flesh. Anyone who has invested a lot of love in their animal crossing saves will have to think twice about whether they will access again when buying a new Special Edition or a future hardware revision.

Finally, the question remains whether it will only be impossible to transfer the individual game data for Animal Crossing: New Horizons or whether this will also affect the complete migration of a system including all accounts to a new device. We asked Nintendo to comment on this.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Deserted Island Getaway Package Trailer

The new short video clip prepares you for the upcoming release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Switch.