Certain Switch 2 games will support cloud saves after all, while Nintendo corrects an important detail about its wireless GameCube controller.
It may not be out for another couple of months, but the Nintendo Switch 2’s launch hype has hit a few potholes along the way. Despite Nintendo’s best efforts, it seems it won’t have enough stock to meet demand after all, as it’s been forced to apologise to customers in Japan.
That’s a pretty good problem to have, all things considered, but there’s also been a lot of needless confusion and misinformation that Nintendo’s allowed to permeate in the wake of its April showcase.
Not only are many pricing details still not available in the UK but it took more than a week for Nintendo to clarify that Switch 2 Edition games will have proper physical releases. Now Nintendo is having to make corrections to more small print and while it’s ultimately good news, it’s strange that such mistakes were made in the first place.
As a reminder, it was discovered last week that certain Switch 2 games would not support Nintendo’s cloud save functionality, meaning it would be impossible to back up your save data in the event of your console becoming lost or damaged.
This applied to Donkey Kong Bananza, as well as the Switch 2 Editions of Super Mario Party Jamboree and the two Legend Of Zelda remasters – Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom.
Since then though, the small print that stated, This software does not support the Nintendo Switch Online paid membership’s Save Data Cloud backup feature’ has been removed from all four product pages, implying that they are compatible with cloud saves.
What’s more, the listings for the two Zelda games have been updated to say that they’ll come with a second save slot, allowing players to start over without overwriting their original save file.
It doesn’t sound like the original Switch 1 games will be updated to receive second save slots, since the fine print also states that save data in those second slots can’t be transferred from the Switch 2 versions to the original versions.
That’s not the only correction Nintendo has offered. There was a bit of a hullabaloo when fine print for the new wireless GameCube controller said it would only be compatible with the GameCube games available on Nintendo Switch Online.
There were some suspicions this was inaccurate to begin with and that’s now been proven correct. According to a Nintendo representative (via Nintendo Life), the controller can work with other games though there may be some issues due to a lack of buttons.
‘Since it doesn’t have all the buttons and features found in other controllers that can be used with the Nintendo Switch 2 system, there may be some issues when playing other games,’ they said, adding that the GameCube controller will only work on Switch 2 and not the Switch 1.
Again, it’s bizarre that these were ever issues to begin with and rather than be upfront and open with its corrections, Nintendo has either made changes without telling anyone or has to be chased up about it.
How much are Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrades and Welcome Tour in UK?
To that point, we’ve only recently discovered that UK prices for upgrading Switch 1 games to their Switch 2 counterparts has been revealed. Not because Nintendo said anything about it but because we stumbled across it on their store page.
Based on the US and Japanese prices, it was suspected that it would cost about £8 to upgrade to the Switch 2 Editions, and that’s exactly the case. Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom cost £7.99, precisely, to upgrade.
Super Mario Party Jamboree and Kirby And The Forgotten Land, however, cost £16.99 to upgrade, because they add new content whereas the Zelda games only receive a graphical boost.
Nintendo had already made it clear there would be a two-tier system for upgrades, based on whether there was new content or not, and this price is slightly less than the £20-ish that many expected.
Finally, Nintendo has, equally quietly, revealed the price for low-tech intro game Welcome Tour, which has suffered greatly from unflattering comparisons to Astro’s Playroom.
It’ll cost £7.99 in the UK, although from what we played of it, it’ll struggle to justify even that price tag.
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