I'm not confused. I'm saying if Nintendo put this on their faq and told people in that direction it would avoid most of the backlash about Nintendo supposedly deleting your saves right away. FTR I have NSO. Not had any real issues with the service. I have issues with Nintendo being terrible as communicating to people about NSO features when their own FAQ words it differently.

"Save data stored with Save Data Cloud cannot be kept outside of the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online membership,"

This was from Nintendo's own FAQ page. There is no conspiracy. Nintendo is notoriously awful at communicating features to people. They had 18 months to tell us exactly what people are getting and they could not even do that.

I myself jumped to that conclusion. I stand corrected, and I am glad.

Exactly. People made negative articles to get people to their site and some of you actually bought into the fake bs.

That isn't Nintendo's fault.

awful online play??? if your game lagging get a new internet provider or router, I have no issues here, or send your system in

Previously, a Nintendo U.K. FAQ mentioned "Save data stored with Save Data Cloud cannot be kept outside of the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online membership,"

Media knew to write about it, people love to comment on negative Nintendo articles compared to positive articles which get less comments and hits

@Mr_Writer85 - very true, but I posted a link from the American support page where it said that cloud saves cannot be guaranteed beyond an indeterminate date. Obviously there was conflicting information, but nowhere did it ever say that your saves would be deleted immediately.

Blame Nintendos own FAQ

"Save data stored with Save Data Cloud cannot be kept outside of the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online membership,"

Dude....it is Nintendo's responsibility to provide correct and clear information to news outlets and its customers. In this case, Nintendo simply did not do that.

"Blame the media"

Bullshit. Blame Nintendo.

This is what I was frustrated about yet people downvote facts anyway.

It was terribly unclear, yes, but not inaccurate.
Beyond 6 months is still within this scope of "outside the duration", just as it is with other services.
Nintendo was just too inept to look at that description and consider that maybe haters would run with the worst assumption, given Nintendo's lack of skill at this whole online thing thus far.

They never said they’d remove the saves. They just said you couldn’t keep them.

...Which has nothing to do with cloud backup.

The same way you'd interpret it had one of the other two phrased it that way; without the assumption that there's no grace period.

Sadly, that's not what happened.

People took the worst possible outcome as the assumed truth, due to lack of perfect statement clarity, and ran with it as far as they could, because negativity breeds more clicks.

@wonderful

"The same way you'd interpret it had one of the other two phrased it that way; without the assumption that there's no grace period."

You have literally nothing to back that up.

Look at the shit MS got for their always on policy.

So no, this isn't a "poor Nintendo everyone has an agenda" situation.

They got called out on something and rightly so.

Now their policy is more in line with Sony.

It's a shame neither follow MS, but 6 months is better than nothing.

On NOA's site it said you have 180 days to renew or the saves are gone. Doesn't matter what a FAQ in another country says. lol

"FAKE NEWS MEDIA!!!!!" Jesus, man. Calm down. Nintendo communicated poorly and misstated. It's on them. "Save data stored with Save Data Cloud cannot be kept outside of the duration of your Nintendo Switch Online membership."

You keep going to bat like this for them and you'll get injured real soon. Take a break.

The reason this became a problem is gamers and gaming media don't understand the information technology they follow/cover. All Iaas(infrastructure as a service) enterprise services have a data retention policy built in. Amazon AWS (the service Nintendo and Sony use for their cloud save storage) has a 3 to 6 month data retention policy. It's very easy to find this information and is available with a simple Google search.