Some Nintendo Switch games don’t support cloud saves

If you have a Nintendo Switch, we’re pretty sure one of the things you love about it is you can save your game data to the cloud. This means, if for some reason you need to let go of the console or it freezes up on you, you can pick up where you left off with your games. Unfortunately, Game Informer discovered that some Switch games don’t support cloud save. They named Pokemon Let’s Go Eeevee & Pikachu and Splatoon 2. Nintendo reasons that these games don’t support the feature because of things like item trading and “fairness” when it comes to online play.

Nintendo says, “The vast majority of Nintendo Switch games will support Save Data Cloud backup. However, in certain games this feature would make it possible to, for example, regain items that had been traded to other players, or revert to a higher online multiplayer ranking that had been lost. To ensure fair play, Save Data Cloud backup may not be enabled for such games. To ensure that Save Data Cloud backups cannot be used to unfairly affect online multiplayer rankings, the feature will not be enabled in Splatoon 2.” While this seems reasonable, we’re not sure if everyone will be happy with this news. What do you think?

Nintendo Switch Online app goes live

The Nintendo Switch Online app was scheduled to come out on July 21st but the app is now available for download for both iOS and Android Switch users. There isn’t much to see at the moment since the first game it supports, Splatoon 2, is coming out on Friday. When that launches, players will be able to use the app's voice chat feature with a special Splatoon hub. At the moment, though, it seems Nintendo is still working to stabilize the app's servers, which hopefully will help them avoid the fiasco during Pokèmon Go's launch. So don't be surprised if you can't log in yet. But when it does go fully live, you'll just need to sign in with your Nintendo account. 

Source: Polygon 

Nintendo brings Splatoon 2 and Arms tournaments to E3 and here are all the details

Over the course of 2 days, pros and amateurs will compete for glory in the Splatoon 2 and ARMS games on the Nintendo Switch console at this year's E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles on June 13 and June 14. 

“The 2017 Splatoon 2 World Inkling Invitational will be held on Tuesday, June 13 at approximately 2:30 pm (PT). For the first time ever, competitors from four different global regions will compete for world dominance in Splatoon 2. The four four-person teams – “Deadbeat” from the United States, “Dynameu” from Japan, “Rising Moon” from Europe and “Blue Ringed Octolings” from Australia/New Zealand – defeated their rivals in local tournaments that occurred in recent months.

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