A passionate Pokémon fan has lost "20 years' worth of data" due to a botched transfer between the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. ThatOtaku26 was so upset with losing their Pokémon monsters, some lovingly nurtured since back in the original GBA era, that they said they were “about to cry.” However, the consensus seems to be that this Friday the 13th tragedy wasn’t due to user error. The social media posting was followed by plenty of corroborating reports of Nintendo’s game data transfers fouling up for no apparent reason.
“There was no error in data transfer at all. It went fine,” insists ThatOtaku26 on Reddit, as preserved by the Internet Archive. “All my other Pokémon data is still there, but not Scarlet. I had mons[ters] from my original GBA up to current on there. Literally 20 years' worth of data.”
