From a semantic standpoint, a ’save slot’ is where a ’save file’ is inserted during the saving process, right?
Not that many people would know this in practice given how interchangeable these two terms appears to be across the board, even in titles that do have discrete ’slots’ for you to make saves to. And that’s not without mentioning the occasions where different terms are used such as both Hollow Knight games naming their slots as ’profiles’ or the many N64 titles requiring the Controller Pak naming their files and the space they take ’notes’ and ’pages’ respectively as per Nintendo’s mandate at the time.
So what about you? Do you consider this distinction important for your titles?