After updating the Switch version of Minecraft, my daughter and I have created separate new worlds for playing co-operatively using split screen option of the game.
Once you click the + button to join as player 2, it starts playing fine. But within a couple of minutes the software closes because an error occurred message happens.
It doesn’t seem to have affected the worlds we have created before the update. So assume it is something that has happened in the update.
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