It looks an awful lot like Pokémon Sword and Shield will be the first mainline Pokémon games to have an autosave function, something which has the potential – if nothing else changes – to drastically impact how the most dedicated players actually play the game.
Fans spotted apparent evidence of the new feature in the form of a “Now saving…” dialogue, which briefly popped up during the latest Sword and Shield trailer released in last Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct. Take a look for yourself, in the top right corner at about the 45 second mark.
It’s always possible that “Now saving…” dialogue is on screen for that brief moment because the player had just manually saved and quickly quit the menu, of course, but it’s unlikely – given the player character seems to be running into the building as it appears, it seems like the kind of Skyrim-like autosave function which occurs every time you cross a certain in-game threshold.
Source: Eurogamer Fans reckon they've spotted Pokémon's first ever autosave in Pokémon Sword and Shield