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Nintendo Switch

Nintendo's Switch launched concluding calendar week to generally positive reviews, only a few issues over the weekend could tarnish the early on adoption experience. First, Nintendo has confirmed that there'southward no way to transfer Switch saved games to whatsoever other device or microSD menu.

Nintendo-Switch-NoSave

Every bit Kotaku points out, this is a deviation from other Nintendo systems. The Wii U and 3DS were both capable of moving saved games, and the ability to movement games to a microSD card to free upwardly space on the Switch's internal bulldoze really shouldn't be problematic in 2017. A Nintendo representative confirmed the outcome to Kotaku, proverb: "At this time, it is not possible to transfer salvage data from 1 Nintendo Switch system to another."

Nintendo has as well published an FAQ claiming that dead or stuck pixels on the Switch should be treated every bit "normal," with no specified allowance for how many dead pixels qualifies a device for replacement.

Switchscreen

There does not seem to be an equivalent note on the US side of the Switch, which may mean that the policy isn't in effect here — or could just mean that Nintendo hasn't gotten around to updating its U.s. website.

Certainly some users have gotten consoles that turned out to accept more than than few stuck pixels, merely nosotros don't notwithstanding know how Nintendo is dealing with the problem in the US or across the swimming.

Beware Aquaria

Nintendo's helpful troubleshooting guidelines besides annotation that the path betwixt the Switch and its Joy-Con controllers must remain gratis of interfering objects. Nosotros've already seen reports from customers who have problem using the Switch because they wind upwardly blocking the signal with their own body. But Nintendo's troubleshooting recommendations go farther in their recommendations. Specifically, Nintendo warns against putting the Switch:

  • Behind a TV
  • Near an aquarium
  • Placed in or nether a metal object
  • Pressed against a big amount of wires and cords
  • Within three to iv anxiety of some other wireless device, such as a wireless speaker or a wireless admission point.

The aquarium warning is likely considering water tin attenuate the wireless signal, but it's hilarious to imagine hundreds or thousands of Switch players squinting at their television screens through rippling water, or angrily blaming deaths on a particularly troublesome fish.

If you're still having connection bug even after removing all of your aquaria, Nintendo recommends shutting down or moving all laptops, tablets, wireless headsets, wireless printers, microwaves, wireless speakers, cordless phones, and USB three.0 devices, including hard drives, thumb drives, and LAN adapters. The company states that in most cases, it should be sufficient to simply move these devices iii-4 feet away, but that if bug don't stop, they should exist shut downward entirely. While that's a reasonable step to have as office of guaranteeing other hardware isn't causing an issue, it'd exist downright ridiculous if having a laptop or USB drive in some other room actually caused bug with the Switch. Hopefully this is only Nintendo beingness cautious, and not a sign that the device volition actually endure interference in such scenarios.