Three annoying ways Nintendo Switch storage is locked down
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Now that Nintendo Switch consoles are arriving (though not for everybody), cheap we have finally found out exactly what you can and can’t do with them when it comes to save files and downloaded games. The answer: not very much at all.
Polygon has pointed out all the various problems, and which amount to a system that’s significantly more locked down than the competition. It seems as though Nintendo wants to limit everything to a single console rather than to your online Nintendo account — which could make life a bit more difficult if you lose your Switch or happen to want to use a friend’s.
Here are the three main problems:
- When you save your game, more about it only can be saved to local storage. You can’t move the save file to a microSD card and it’s not…
