TLDR: Got robbed, and lost my Switch with 70+ hours of BoTW. Awesome wife immediately bought me a new Switch. Nintendo Support helped me transfer active system to the new console, and we're back to playing Mario Kart 8 cups together.
Coming home from a Pokémon TCG tournament on Saturday night, three men jump out of a car with guns, and proceed to ask me, and my wife, for our cell phones.
They noticed she had my backpack on, and they asked her for it too.
Fortunately they didn't ask for my wallet, and I had a big bag with a a lot of my Pokémon cards, a cool new deck box I'd won, and a new router to replace a broken one at home.
My backpack, however, had my main Pokémon TCG box with my deck, and a new deck I'd just bought and built. It had my laptop (yay for FileVault 2 encryption and my paranoia with super lengthy, complex passwords), and my Nintendo Switch.
I'm super bummed about Zelda, and this only reinforces what we as a community keep saying, Nintendo needs to allow for backups, or do online saves like on PlayStation! However I'm also excited as I get to explore that fantastic world again, and so anything I may have missed earlier in my first play through.
I'm so glad I didn't have my copy of Mario Kart in the case. Just my JoyCon straps, a USB-C cable, and an iPad charging brick. I'll need to get a MicroSD again at some point, and another case.
My wife was so awesome that she immediately called up our friends at a local game store, and had them reserve the last Switch in stock, and another copy of BoTW. Nintendo support was super helpful, at first a gentleman said "This is a one time thing, and not something we will ever do again". When I told him I was robbed at gunpoint, and was sad enough I lost my system, and save files, he immediately apologized and helped me out.
