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[Confirmed] Animal Crossing: New Horizons will force every individual Switch user account to share the same island
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only if Nintendo lets me. don't hinder my ambitions Nintendo. I'm trying to explore new horizons
I can only repeat myself from half a year ago.
It's how it's always been and it's great.
It's how it's always been and it's great.
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So the save data for each account on the Switch is not isolated to that account? Like on PS4, if I create another local account, I expect that starting any game on the new account will be like loading the game for the first time; that is, there will be no save data or any other trace of the game having been played before (I'm not sure if it's even possible for a local PSN account to access any saved data of other accounts on the system?). But it sounds like this is not the case on the Switch?
What I really want to know is if there's any cloud save function. I'd really love to grab a Lite and take my save between that and the regular Switch, but I just don't know if it's possible.
Even if the method for this is something else I'd love to know! Kinda wish it was saved in your Nintendo account...
Even if the method for this is something else I'd love to know! Kinda wish it was saved in your Nintendo account...
So, uh... Both my sister and I have our own switches, but for convenience we usually use mine, wich is usually hooked to my TV.
I guess this is why it doesn't support cloud saves: One switch, one island. Can't say I hate it, it's how it has always been
Oh well, fine. Sorry for my niece a nephew though
I guess this is why it doesn't support cloud saves: One switch, one island. Can't say I hate it, it's how it has always been
Oh well, fine. Sorry for my niece a nephew though
I am oddly in a situation where my partner and I will have our own separate Switches, and I am allowed to play Switch in my downtime at work, so I frequently actually take it with me outside of the house...
I want to share the same island with my partner but my play habits aren't going to make that possible, lol. Like, the OP's implication is that it sucks to be forced into this, and I'm like "PLEASE LET ME SYNC OUR ISLAND OVER THE CLOUD OR SOMETHING I WANT IT"
I want to share the same island with my partner but my play habits aren't going to make that possible, lol. Like, the OP's implication is that it sucks to be forced into this, and I'm like "PLEASE LET ME SYNC OUR ISLAND OVER THE CLOUD OR SOMETHING I WANT IT"
Yep this is what I want / need. Having separate islands because we each have our own switches actually sucks.
Some over the cloud, others have to be manually transferred I think.
Yes, it is. But like every other console, games can have a console level settings file(s) that gets shared among every user.
Animal Crossing will store the maps in the shared data, but other info in the normal saves.
I don't think I've ever encountered console level save data in any game before. I assumed at least on PlayStation systems that this wasn't supported, since I don't think I've ever played a game in which say, high scores or fastest times of another account on the system would be visible to me on my account (which is the case where such a feature seems to make most sense to me).
I think this is why I find this idea so unusual.
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The game doesn't support cloud saves in any way. That's already confirmed.
Deep inside, in the darkest depths of your heart, you already know the answer.
Splatoon 2 doesn't have cloud saves, and New Leaf didn't allow you to make a local backup of your save either...
Bummer. Surely they must know there's a decent audience that would pick up another system if they could jump back and forth between the two. Was gonna grab a Lite for this as it's way more portable but won't bother if I can't put the save up on the TV too without a big mess.
Awesome. My daughter and I will be able to play in the same world. It's like the Cube version all over again!
^this. Its more interesting of a dynamic that way. The benefit of having a unique island is more fun in a multiplayer shared world style that has other live players. Gosh we need a new direct for this game
I don't think that this kind of audience exist, no. That seems just odd and a weird thing to do in general.
I wouldn't call this "way more portable" at all.
Just stay with the normal one and you're fine, specially because there are way more games without cloudsave and this problem would appear again.
A. This was never expected, not from me at least. This is not the same as what previous games did at all.
- Gamecube: need a different memory card for a different town.
- DS: need a new copy of the game for a different town.
- Wii: Only one town because there were no such thing as player profiles.
- 3DS: need a new copy of the game for a different town.
- Switch: Can't use a new copy of the game, can't use a new memory card, but instead you need a new console despite having player profiles unlike the Wii.
Not that I needed different towns anyway, I only kept one, but still.
Moreover, why can't a series evolve? "That's how it's always been" is a shit excuse. I've never had to share a town with someone because the ones I played most (Wild World and New Leaf) were on an individual handheld console. New Horizons is supposed to be a hybrid, which means at least part of the time it's meant to be a home console that's shared with others in the home. That doesn't mean I want to share all my saves with everyone, that's why we have player profiles to separate our save files.
B. Good for you? Some of us live with someone who will utterly take over the save file. Dude played Minecraft on Switch for 100 hours in one week once. Why do I want to buy a game all about personalizing your town to your taste and then just... exist in someone else's grand creation?
Woke up hoping this was a nightmare, but now one of my most anticipated titles in years has all but evaporated from my radar. :(
This dismissive strawman is honestly kind of rude. I'm shocked so many people are saying it (or some variation) in here. :\
Nobody is saying they shouldn't have a shared island. They're saying it should be an option to have an individual one. Does that really offend you so much? Not everyone lives the same life as you.
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No, it works exactly the same as on PS4. Savegames are exclusive to the account that has created such savegame, you can't share it.
It's just related to New Horizon and the decision to allow 1 active island x copy of the game. Honestly I think it's great, it's not like you have to share progress or your house/items, it's that all the accounts on the same Switch are going to live on the same Island. Sounds super cool to me, but maybe not for others.
The game won't have cloud saves, but the Switch has the functionality to transfer individual saves between two consoles locally which I use all the time. So yeah it's pretty quick and easy to do so.
Why would they change that? Has been this way since i think the Gamecube? Wasn't it originally done to curb item duplication and save scumming?
It was originally done because a single town required an entire Gamecube memory card's worth of space. Now it's just tradition
Oh that's actually awesome! Thank you so much for this info, I see it looks like it works for Pokémon (which also does not do cloud save) so that should work great.
You've made me realise something, how is this going to work?
If, in theory, Switch A Profile A makes an Island and has their own villagers, setup etc.
Switch B Profile B makes their own Island, with their own set of villagers and setup, etc.
Transferring Profile B to Switch A... when all Profiles are meant to share an Island?
How does that work?
This is literally all we're asking for. You can have it both ways, an option for a shared island or an individual one. Nobody is trying to stop shared islands. As it stands, this would render the copy I would buy practically unusable to customize my island, since I'd be sharing my town with someone who can (and likely would) play for at least 40 hours more than I could each week.
It would likely overwrite Switch A's island.
This isn't really how Switch save game data works, so I'm sceptical at the thread's interpretation.
Edit: never mind, missed the update. That's wild. I wonder if the island disappears when you delete the digital version of the game.
Edit2: oh my god, just thinking about all the hoops they had to jump through to make this work. Just wild.
Edit: never mind, missed the update. That's wild. I wonder if the island disappears when you delete the digital version of the game.
Edit2: oh my god, just thinking about all the hoops they had to jump through to make this work. Just wild.
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Easy:
1. Create island based on unique key on Switch device. Island is procedurally content generated based on a given input value.
2. Remember only the positions of entities placed on the island. This is your save data per profile.
I don't understand how this is a bad thing tbh. This is how the previous games worked and living on an island together was the best part of playing with someone else.
It would be nice to have the option to have your own unique island if possible but that's a pretty small thing that I bet the vast majority of people wouldn't do.
Hell it would more likely be an annoyance when people did it by accident and had to start again to go live with their friend and stuff like that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding though
It would be nice to have the option to have your own unique island if possible but that's a pretty small thing that I bet the vast majority of people wouldn't do.
Hell it would more likely be an annoyance when people did it by accident and had to start again to go live with their friend and stuff like that.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding though
Oh, I'm not opposed to the idea at all. I'm more curious about the technical implications of having some kind of shared save data. As I mentioned in my previous post, this is something that I've never encountered (at least on PlayStation, which is my main system), otherwise I'd expect to have seen at least one game with (for example) high scores or fastest times of other accounts on my system when I'm playing on my own account, as this seems like the most obvious use for such a feature.