Can you transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons save to another Switch? People who are playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons are wondering if there’s a way to move your save game to another console. Unfortunately, getting this done comes at a heavy price.
Can you transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons save to another Switch?
Let’s get the bad news out of the way: transferring your Animal Crossing: New Horizons save generally can’t be done like you could with other games. For some reason, Nintendo has made the unfortunate decision to restrict how players can back up their game.
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Here’s the relevant text from the Nintendo Customer Support page:
If I purchase a second system, can I transfer the save file (island data) to a different console?
Animal Crossing: New Horizons does not support the ability to transfer your save file from one Nintendo Switch system to another.
Can you back up your game with Sava Data Cloud if you have Nintendo Switch Online? Unfortunately, the answer to that question isn’t great, either.
Is this game compatible with Save Data Cloud?
This game does not support the Save Data Cloud functionality of Nintendo Switch Online.
How to transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons save to another Switch
While the inability to move saves kind of stinks, there is one bit of good news: you can get your save data moved to another console. The downside is that it would cost you your Nintendo Switch.
Here’s what the Nintendo Customer Support page has to say about recovering lost saves:
[The] ability to recover Animal Crossing: New Horizons save data from the server in the event of console failure, loss or theft will be available to Nintendo Switch Online members later this year.
So, there you have it. If you’re wondering “Can you transfer Animal Crossing: New Horizons save to another Switch?”, it seems that Nintendo will only do it if your Switch console is stolen or destroyed — and even then, they’ll only do it once.
