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Pokémon Players Report Loss of Years of Gameplay Due to Switch 2 Save Data Transfer Problems

By

Claire Lewis

11mo ago· 3 min readenNews

Summary

Pokémon players are experiencing save data transfer issues when moving from Switch 1 to Switch 2, resulting in the loss of years of gameplay and Pokémon collections.

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Pokémon fans who have purchased a Switch 2 are reporting that their save data from previous games isn’t transferring correctly to their new Nintendo console, leaving some players heartbroken after losing years-old saves from across Pokémon generations.
Reddit user ThatOtaku26 shared their experience with data-transfer issues in the /r/PokemonScarletViolet subreddit, claiming that they’d lost more than 1,000 hours of gameplay and 20 years’ worth of Pokémon due to the problem.
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Pokémon fans say Scarlet and Violet save data is getting lost when transferring from Switch 1 to Switch 2.

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