Your post made me laugh when I read it, I thought it was pretty obvious
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Nintendo Switch only records up to 1 year of playtime, after that it resets back to 0 - READ OP
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Your post made me laugh when I read it, I thought it was pretty obvious
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Wasn't the Wii's total playtime stats hidden in the Nintendo Channel that had little purpose? Now that Wiis are offline does that mean our hours are gone forever?
I'm sure the Switch issue will be fixed but it's pretty hilarious that this would even happen. I don't know why I like playtime stats so much but I really enjoy checking them out.
I'm sure the Switch issue will be fixed but it's pretty hilarious that this would even happen. I don't know why I like playtime stats so much but I really enjoy checking them out.
Way to overreact to what is obviously a bug which has a 99% chance of being resolved as quickly as possible.
This thread makes me feel old.
This thread makes me feel old.
I want an activity log so badly. Hoping we get one before Animal Crossing.
Nah, Wii's is in the system itself, on the bottom-right corner of the home menu. You can even go back to the first day you played it (so long as you never had to send it in for repairs, where they wiped all of our data...).
Edit: oh, total playtime? Didn't know Wii had that, so I guess you're right
With how dramatic people here can be I don't blame them for not detecting the joke.
Honestly I can't believe people get THIS upset over a minor bug about a playlog of all things. Save your anger for more important things, huh?
The best guess for what their name means is literally "Leave luck to heaven"...
Yeah, because all the hardware innovations that started with Nintendo don't count.
Would anyone expect any less.
At least Nintendo acknowledged the issue and will discuss it further soon.
As someone who is worryingly obsessed with my Activity Log this saddened me to see this afternoon when I turned on my Switch. :( I'm glad they're already on the case to fixing it, I really hope nothing is lost. :(
While we're at it, why is it so hard to just copy and paste the glorious 3DS Activity Log? :| Since then they haven't had very good ones at all, even that one wasn't perfect (deletes stuff after a bit of time UGH) but still.
While we're at it, why is it so hard to just copy and paste the glorious 3DS Activity Log? :| Since then they haven't had very good ones at all, even that one wasn't perfect (deletes stuff after a bit of time UGH) but still.
What a weird comment considering the 3DS has the most comprehensive Activity Log of any system. I found it super weird Nintendo went back on that.
Oh man what a controversy. I mean think about how many years the GameCube recorded. Things have truly gotten worse.
It doesn't look like anything is even lost. It went back to displaying the amount of days ago you started playing, which always tracked the hours played to display after the 10 days were up. I'm pretty confident that the assumption that Nintendo just didn't use years in that date comparison is right and it's just a display bug.
I mean, we can only be really sure in 9-10 days, but that thread title is wrong, isn't it?
It says "First played 0 days ago" or "First played 1 day ago" (because I got my Switch one day early), not "Played for a few hours". I'm pretty sure the actual number of hours played isn't lost at all, it's just that Switch won't display it for the first ten days.
It says "First played 0 days ago" or "First played 1 day ago" (because I got my Switch one day early), not "Played for a few hours". I'm pretty sure the actual number of hours played isn't lost at all, it's just that Switch won't display it for the first ten days.
My activity log shows first played 0 days ago for BOTW, but the text is still blue. That means the Switch knows i played for more than 50 hours telling me the data isn't lost but just hidden.
Yeah it's doing the thing it does before ten days after you play.
The data is still there's it just doesn't surface until ten days after the first time you play a game, which the switch thinks you haven't because Nintendo forgot years were a thing.
The data is still there's it just doesn't surface until ten days after the first time you play a game, which the switch thinks you haven't because Nintendo forgot years were a thing.
I still believe that Nintendo knew about this days ago. It fits too well with them pulling the switch game reviews that use play time as a qualifier.
You really think this is a conspiracy to screw over people, not what it actually is, a small bug in the display that reads the days based on d/m format until ten days in without taking account the year, that will be gone next update with all logged hours being intact?
He was being sarcastic :P
EDIT: Oh, nvm, misread it. Albeit, I don't think he meant that it was a conspiracy theory or anything
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Damn man... I don't feel like my post equates to a conspiracy theory about Nintendo "screwing people over".
I merely meant to say that I feel like Nintendo probably started seeing this issue a few days to a week ago and decided to pull that review feature as a result. Nothing malicious there, it just makes more sense than their initial response to pulling reviews.
The reviews are based on the amount of time played, so if there was an issue with that it would make sense to pull the reviews. He's probably right as Nintendo had the systems longer than any of us so they would have seen this days before us.
I think he meant they realized this bug would be an issue when they were testing reviews which is why they pulled them and why they were able to respond so fast
But time played isn't actually deleted, it's just hidden from view because the Switch thinks you have been playing the game for fewer than ten days. That's obvious because games you play particularly long are coloured differently.
Maybe spend your time in topics you care about then?
I don't care about trophies but if there was a glitch where trophies reset and I went into the topic saying "whatever care about more important things " would it go over as well?
Yeah, this right here. 3DS Activity Log is so good and if the 3DS can handle it then Switch should have no problem at all.
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