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Friday, June 20, 2025
 
A downgrade regarding Switch user profiles

I had 4 different user profiles on my Nintendo Switch 1: My main profile, a second profile that allowed me to play the Legend of Zelda games with a different save game, and two profiles for members of my family. When I installed the Switch 2, the 4 user profiles got transferred too. So I was thinking of using the Legend of Zelda save game on my second profile for the item transfer function of Zelda Notes. Turns out, you can't. Or rather, only one user profile on a given Switch 2 console can be linked to a given Nintendo account. All other profiles are strictly offline only, and if you try any functionality that requires online, you'll be asked to link to a Nintendo account, and end up with error code 2124-0150 informing you that a Nintendo Account cannot be linked to more than one user on a single console.

While the Legend of Zelda games previously had only one save game slot per user, I could in fact have as many save games as I wanted, by creating as many user profiles as I wanted. The Switch 2 upgraded Legend of Zelda games have 2 save slots now, but only one user profile can use Zelda Notes or other online features like game chat. If I want more than 2 save slots and create a user profile for that, I can only play offline, and without the very useful Zelda Notes added functionalities. Bummer!

- posted by Tobold @ 2:30 PM Permanent Link
Comments:
And what would be the consequence of just creating another account and linking to that?
Are the games account-only so that your second profile would not have access to the game?

Another workaround would be switching the linked profiles back and forth on the same account if that doesn't cause issues or is overly complicated.
# posted by Blogger Camo : 20/6/25 16:23
 
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