r/Xenoblade_Chronicles • u/Marcus_5463 • 1d ago

Xenoblade Do the Physical version for Switch 2 Editions keep your Save Data from Switch 1?

So this is going to require a bit of explaining since i feel the title may not be indicative of what i'm trying to ask (apologies, english isn't my first language). So originally i was simply going to buy the Switch 2 Upgrade Pack for the Xnoblade games that i own on Switch 1 (which is all of them on Physical), however when looking at the file size for each upgrade pack i realized that, with the remaining space i have on my SD Express card, i don't have enough space to download all of them (i'd be short by 20 GB).

So i was trying to look for alternatives, one option was simply buying an SD Express card with bigger Storage space but i realized that A - unlike the Regular SD cards i don't know how to transfer data from one SD express card to another (i don't want to risk it since all of my Save Data from Switch 1 is on there) and B - The price for a 1TB card in the country that i live in (Brazil) costs around BRL$ 2000,00 or higher, the other option (and the one i'm honestly contemplating despite it being financially questionable) is to simply buy the Physical versions of the Switch 2 ports and hope that, by inserting the Switch 2 cartridge, it'll auto upgrade the S1 version while keeping my Save data from those versions. Thing is though i dont know if that's even what would happen or not and i was hoping that someone could clarify/help me so i don't accidentaly erase around 200 hours of Save Data

Just to repeat the question without the set up: If i were to buy a Physical Switch 2 Edition of a Xenoblade game (be it 1,2 or 3) and insert the cartridge into a Switch 2 which already has registerd save data from the Switch 1 version that i played would that simply upgrade the game while keeping the Switch 1 Save Data or would that somehow erase the Save data from the System?

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u/Cygni_03 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes. Save data from either version is compatible with the other.

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u/fireteambrav0 1d ago

Yes, the physical switch 2 edition is a switch 1 cart with the upgrade pack pre-installed

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u/InsideBuy4599 5h ago

Save data is always stored on the console not the cartridge. Also Because of that you don’t actually need to transfer data between SD cards if you want a new one. You can literally just put a new sd card in, redownload all the games, and your save data will still be there