> Do games consoles not implement some kind of transactional system for game saves anyway? It would seem very harsh to lose all progress in a game because of a

> Do games consoles not implement some kind of transactional system for game saves anyway? It would seem very harsh to lose all progress in a game because of a power cut! Especially since modern games don't seem to have any way to allow the player to make multiple arbitrary save files as backups. That is actually Jon's point. The API by default is not transactional, while it should be. That is left up to the developer to implement. > The icon for game saves actually kinda makes sense in another way. Sure, it may make sense, but that is not part of cert. The message is required to show at any point where any data is being saved, which could just in fact be useless stats. In which case its possible to see the icon finish, shut off the game, and then later be suprised when the game did not in fact save your progress.