The Nintendo Switch is a little lacking in the storage department, but do you really need that extra microSD card?

The Nintendo Switch is going its own way for the ninth generation, with Nintendo diversifying even further from the consoles offered by PlayStation and Microsoft. One of these changes in direction is sticking with a small internal storage capacity – just 25.9GB after OS requirements – but allowing users to upgrade that space through microSD cards. By comparison, the latest consoles from Sony and Microsoft come with 1TB of memory on board.

Mar 3, 2017 - Nintendo Switch users looking to play their downloaded games on multiple. For the Nintendo Network ID of the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. You need a Nintendo Account to buy games in the Switch eShop, and any purchases you. Save games — or, in fact, any way to move them off the console they were. Any save data already on the downloadable version of the software will be overwritten during the transfer process. Connect to the Nintendo eShop and download the 'Save Data Transfer Tool.' And tap the transfer button when ready to transfer save data. Do not turn the power OFF or remove the Game Card during the save data transfer process.

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I'm upgrading SD card size, but my save files from 3DS games don't transfer over. What now?

So, my situation is this:

Due to the amount of digital content I'm purchasing on the eShop, I figured it's time that I went and increase my SD card size from 4 GB to 32 GB. I went ahead and ordered this for my 3DS:

I followed Nintendo's instructions on how to transfer data between SD cards:

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Once I did that, it was disappointing to see that none of my eShop purchases made it to my new SD card. The only thing that transfered were my Ambassador games and Pokedex 3D. I have no idea why Pokedex 3D was there b/c I deleted that when I bought Pokedex 3D Pro a while back. Not only that, but when I re-downloaded all my games from the e-Shop, it turns out there's no save file for any of the games. The games being Mario Kart 7, Fractured Soul, and Pokemon Y. When I start them up, they create a save file for the game as if it were started for the first time.

EDIT: Ok, so here's something you all should know. This happens to be my 2nd 3DS. Due to that, I had to do a System Transfer at one point. I think I may have messed up the transfer at one point when transferring data between SD cards because I actually went from 2 GB to 4 GB during that process. I don't honestly remember what happened, but I think that after the System Transfer my new SD card never went through the data transfer properly because I thought System Transfer took care of that. I think I formatted the 2GB SD card before I could transfer the data, but everything seemed fine except for Ambassador games I had to re-download. I didn't lose any pictures, Miis, MiiPlaza data or anything like that. I did, however lose my GBA game save data, so I had to replay them again.

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The reason I'm saying this is because whenever I copy data from my 4GB SD card that has been used by my 3DSXL since I bought it, the new SD card that I transfer it shows all my data from my OLD 3DS SYSTEM before I did my system transfer. My Ambassador GBA games have different save files; mainly Metroid Fusion. I distinctively remembering being frustrated for the save files not being transferred over, and after right now with my 4GB and my 32 GB, they both have different save files, even though I copied from the 4 GB to the 32 GB SD card. And copying over the recent stuff from my SD card just brings up all my old stuff on the new 32GB SD card...that does not make sense at all :/

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