So, let me preface this by saying that my wife is not a gamer. But I managed to get her into Animal Crossing and she’s put 130 hours in over the last year. I’ve never played it myself, but she has a great time so we’re all happy.
Cut to today where I am in possession of a shiny new Switch 2. I thought it would be nice to give her my old Switch and buy her a copy of Animal Crossing for her birthday. So I transferred all my data off and initialized the old Switch and waited.
Well, when she booted up her very own copy on her very own Switch and was prompted to start a new island. Weird. I poked around for a bit as the horrifying realization dawned on me.
Her island didn’t transfer. Turns out you need to do a manual backup and I didn’t know that. So now her island is gone and she is devistated that I nuked 130 hours of her life.
Happy Birthday.
TL:DR I didn’t realize Animal Crossing needed a manual backup and deleted my wife’s island for her birthday.
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TIFU by initiating my divorce
You need to give her your brand new Switch 2 for her birthday now. It’s only fair.
time to spend real money on getting lots of bells she she can buy everything haha. to eBay!