Switches owners urged to “connect” games every 5 years to avoid data loss

It has been a harsh year to preserve the video game, still desperately hoping that the physical media will remain for a long time (don't worry I'm there with you.

This makes physical collectors much more about the future, and now we have new fears to throw the pile to the top. At the beginning of this week is a popular account for protection of video games Twitter plays everyone that even our physical cartridges for systems such as Nintendo Switch, DS and PlayStation Vita are safe without proper care.

Switches owners urged to “connect” games every 5 years to avoid data loss

The screenshot report from IT Play (due to time extension) claims that the cassettes are able to rewrite themselves over time, with a certain number of enrollment cycles allowed before the cassette eventually dies. To stop this, systems like Nintendo Switch and 3DS Switch, game cassettes whenever they are inserted to make sure they are all in good operating condition.

We do not have accurate information about when the cassettes will die if they stay alone, but it has been designed for the owners to detain cassettes in their systems and leave them idle for a while unless they have been played in the last 5 to 10 years. In this way, you can prevent your cartridges from getting worse and become unpaidable. So, if you have any cassette -based games that you haven't played since 2015, stick them to your switch, otherwise you can find yourself in the game.

Of course, those who like to maintain sealed copies of games are on another boat. It is highly likely that the Switch games that will remain for more than ten years will be inside either on the brink of death, or they were dead for a while, so they need to open them and just pop in the console. He's a Bummer, but I would personally have a functional game that is basically imprisoned forever in a movie wrapped coffin.