A few years ago I bought a new Nintendo switch because my brother, who I shared a switch with at the time, was leaving for college and so I had to transfer all of my saved data, which worked out fine. However he took most of the physical games with him, including Breath of the Wild. Today, a few years later, I bought Breath of the Wild again wanting to play it again, however when I picked up the game and put it in my switch and tried to play it, a message that says “Unable to start software” popped up, so I did the predictable thing to do and took game out and put it back in and it still didn’t work. Eventually I tried other games and those didn’t work either. I reset my switch multiple times but nothing worked. I want to be able to play my games again but I’m not sure how to fix this. What should I do??!!
#Error message when starting any switch game
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It’s not just Cartridge games though
Could you elaborate?
Yeah, I tried playing games that I downloaded off of the e shop, those won’t work either, I just checked my sd card in the settings menu and it isn’t reading the card, I’m trying to figure that out now
that’s really bizarre
can you test games in downloaded in the internal storage?
if it still doesn’t work your only hope is initializing your console but im pretty sure the results would be the same
Can you try opening those games using a different account? @short delta
Don’t worry, I’ve already fixed it, just needed to get a new sd card
Oh I see. Maybe you don't need to though, try formatting it yet?