Pokemon Sword And Shield Won’t Support Save Data Backups

Jenni Lada

Published: Oct 30, 2019 06:00 am

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The Japanese eShop listings for Pokemon Sword and Shield have appeared online, and a Nintendo Switch Online feature will not be supported in the games. Both listings say it isn’t compatible with the save data cloud, which allows someone to back up their save data. (Thanks, Japanese Nintendo!)

A few other details are revealed in the product listing for the game. A Japanese copy has language support for Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. It also confirms someone could use a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller with the game. Preloading will be available, and this listing says it will be a 9.5GB download.

Pokemon Sword and Shield will come to the Nintendo Switch on November 15, 2019.

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Jenni Lada

Jenni is Editor-in-Chief at Siliconera and has been playing games since getting access to her parents' Intellivision as a toddler. She continues to play on every possible platform and loves all of the systems she owns. (These include a PS4, Switch, Xbox One, WonderSwan Color and even a Vectrex!) You may have also seen her work at GamerTell, Cheat Code Central, Michibiku and PlayStation LifeStyle.