Fortnite

Sony pulled a dramatic about plough bac in 2019 and allowed Fortnite to back up cantankerous play on every single platform, including Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, and Mac. Not only does this allow you to play with your chums on PS4 while you're on your Switch, but it volition besides let you use a single business relationship beyond multiple platforms.

For example, you might want to play Fortnite on your PS4 Pro at home, taking full advantage of that gorgeous 4K, just then play on your Switch when you're out and about without losing any of your progress. That's exactly what you're able to do at present.

However, information technology's a scrap of a complicated procedure – especially if y'all didn't really register for an Epic business relationship when y'all started playing Fortnite on Switch. Not to worry though, for we've figured it all out and created this guide that will walk y'all through the process pace-by-step.

This process is going to be super simple or a little bit complicated depending on one factor: whether or not you have an Ballsy Account. You come across, when playing Fortnite on a platform for the first fourth dimension, yous don't have to set up an Ballsy Account. Instead, it will just tie your progress to your PSN ID or Nintendo Account. This isn't a problem until you want to deport your progress over to a unlike platform.

Complicating this matter further, is the fact that you couldn't previously connect an Epic Business relationship to Nintendo Switch if you'd previously signed onto PS4 with information technology – or vice versa. This restriction was then lifted.

Now that the history lesson is out of the fashion, allow's go through the steps you lot demand to accept to tie your Nintendo Switch progress to an Epic Account before y'all tin link it to PS4. If you know you lot have an Epic Account with your Switch progress tied to information technology, skip these steps and head to the 'How To Connect Your Epic Account To PS4 And Switch' section beneath.

How To Sync Your Fortnite Switch Progress To An Ballsy Business relationship

Then yous want to sync your Fortnite progress to an Epic Account and then y'all can carry it over to PS4? Hither's how to practice information technology in steps:

  • Visit the official Fortnite site: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/.
  • Striking 'login' at the elevation right of the page.
  • You will be asked 'Do you already play Fortnite?'. Respond 'Yes'.
  • Cull the 'Nintendo Switch' icon.
  • A new page volition open requesting you to log in to your Nintendo Account. Do then, as this will allow Epic to access your Switch progress.
  • Next, y'all'll have to create an Epic Account. Fill in the course.
  • If successful, you should be prompted to validate the electronic mail address you provided. Head to your inbox, detect the email, and follow the link to validate information technology.
  • If you followed the steps properly, your Switch progress will now exist saved to an Epic Account.

How To Connect Your Epic Account To PS4 And Switch

You accept an Epic Account that is linked to your Fortnite progress on Switch? Great. Follow these steps to link information technology to your PS4.

  • Visit the official Fortnite site: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/.
  • Striking 'login' at the peak right of the page.
  • Sign in with your electronic mail and password.
  • Hover over your username at the elevation right of the screen, click on 'Account'.
  • Click on 'Connected Accounts'.
  • Scroll downwards and yous should see the post-obit image:
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  • Switch should have the word 'Disconnect' underneath it. This ways that your Switch progress is synced up.
  • PS4, on the other hand, should take the word 'Connect' underneath it. Click it.
  • Next, you'll have to login with your PSN ID credentials.
  • If successful, you should now have both accounts linked together. Sign into Fortnite on PS4 and Switch and your progress should cross over.

How practice you experience nearly Sony'due south about plough? Are you annoyed that this happened in the first identify? Or simply grateful that you can progress no matter where yous play information technology? Let us know in the comments section below.