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Nintendo changes Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct wording on "one time" save data recovery, now says "more details" on save data recovery are coming

Hope for a policy change?
by rawmeatcowboy
22 February 2020
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One of the biggest sticking points coming out of Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct was the mention of save data recovery. The Direct featured a blurb that said "Switch Online members can only have save data recovered one time due to loss or damage of system." That riled up a ton of people, many of which didn't want to worry about potentially losing their game data if more than one unfortunate circumstance hit them.

Well, while we're not sure of the reason, Nintendo has now changed that segment of the Direct. If you go watch the current upload of the Direct on Nintendo's YouTube channel, you can see the language in that section has changed. It now says, "More details on save data recovery functionality will be shared at a future date." Does this mean Nintendo is reconsidering their stance, or are they just trying to hush the naysayers for the time being?

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