havefeith
Cute Haru is cute.
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I had a Switch of the Mariko chip model. I wanted to trade it in to get a bonus on the Switch 2. Only got $25 CAD more than usual, so that's fine. What's not fine is Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's refusal to allow your Pokémon saves to back up to the cloud. If I wanted to do a transfer to the Switch 2 from my own Switch, I would've had to wait 3 hours for it to happen. I didn't want to wait, because I was scheduled to meet a friend half an hour earlier than I ended up leaving the store.
Now, part of that's on me, I should've read the article about transfering from NSW1 to NSW2 more carefully. Doing so would've saved me some time. And I would've been able to keep all of my Pokémon saves, excluding my Pokémon Home save, since that's a cloud service. I only found out pokémon doesn't transfer after checking my cloud data transfer backups, and saw that none of them were there.
I'm feeling like I just want to give up on Pokémon now. I had a bunch of pokémon I couldn't save because of Home being a subscription based service, and thus locking extra space behind a paywall. No point in buying the new games because I can't back up my save anyways. I get they want to limit save hacking as much as they can, but their methods hurt the end user who just plays casually.
I'm not saying to not buy the new console, mind. I'm saying if you trade in your old one, be sure to back up everything to Ninty's servers meant specifically for that before you leave home first. The console is pretty cool. The screen is huge, compared to what I'm used to. Mario Kart World is fun. My friend and I had fun trying out several free roam challenges, even if we got frustrated at one impromptu race because we had to reach the checkpoint in time and had to do 3 laps of that without getting hit once. You get damaged in any way, and you're locked into an anim that takes up precious time for acceleration.
Now, part of that's on me, I should've read the article about transfering from NSW1 to NSW2 more carefully. Doing so would've saved me some time. And I would've been able to keep all of my Pokémon saves, excluding my Pokémon Home save, since that's a cloud service. I only found out pokémon doesn't transfer after checking my cloud data transfer backups, and saw that none of them were there.
I'm feeling like I just want to give up on Pokémon now. I had a bunch of pokémon I couldn't save because of Home being a subscription based service, and thus locking extra space behind a paywall. No point in buying the new games because I can't back up my save anyways. I get they want to limit save hacking as much as they can, but their methods hurt the end user who just plays casually.
I'm not saying to not buy the new console, mind. I'm saying if you trade in your old one, be sure to back up everything to Ninty's servers meant specifically for that before you leave home first. The console is pretty cool. The screen is huge, compared to what I'm used to. Mario Kart World is fun. My friend and I had fun trying out several free roam challenges, even if we got frustrated at one impromptu race because we had to reach the checkpoint in time and had to do 3 laps of that without getting hit once. You get damaged in any way, and you're locked into an anim that takes up precious time for acceleration.