I know people would like die to defend Nintendo but there still wasn’t a technical reason to cut down the Pokedex and there ain’t a technical reason why you’ll only get one Animal Crossing island per Switch console. You heard about that shit right?? You can’t have multiple saves even if you buy it multiple times on cartridge or log into different Nintendo accounts. One switch, one file.
Guys this is not how Animal Crossing ever worked before and there’s no chance of it being just accident or incompetency. They had to very deliberately add extra programming so that people can’t share a switch to play their own different files, which a LOT of households have traditionally done with this series so they aren’t fighting with each other over how to landscape the town or which villagers to work towards.
there’s a few ppl in the notes arguing animal crossing was never meant to have multiple save files, and i think at least part of what they’re overlooking is that, to my knowledge, not a single other game on the switch has this problem/“feature”
a single instance of nintendo online applies to one nintendo account. in games like mario kart, mario party, anything where the main difference between save files is only the amount of things you’ve unlocked? you’re still given different saves between accounts
every switch release i’ve played works like this, every game that doesn’t have have multiple files built in, even pokémon swsh won’t make you buy an entire new CONSOLE to let your siblings or partner or parents or etc play
the fact that this feature was REMOVED for a game where customization is the main draw shows, at best, a disgusting lack of forethought and incompetence. and a company as big as nintendo doesnt just make decisions without thinking
Let’s reiterate that Nintendo went out of their way to make a single global save for the entire console. That’s not the normal mode of operation for Switch games. Save data is meant to be sandboxed and stored per-user/profile, not per device.
I’ve not developed for Switch but I suspect that this is one of those things that would violate their own TRCs (Technical Requirement Checklist) if it were to happen in a third-party game. Nintendo has always been bad at following their own rules, but usually not this far to the detriment of the player.
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