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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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I think this is a great feature, it allows us to record a new play time length and even compare it to the one we achieved on the previous year.
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I manually changed the date to 10 days into the future but it didn't change the message.
Also just to be clear, I got my Switch exactly at midnight and started playing BotW soon after.
I can't wait to see their full revealed online proposal. They even manage to fuck up things that they were already doing well in the past so I can't wait for more stuff like their voice chat solution. At this point I have no expectations, only morbid curiosity.
Now its a doomsday clock
you know you could always do math? Or have a separate counter in the game specifically for the save file?
you know you could always do math? Or have a separate counter in the game specifically for the save file?
Actually, the 3DS and Wii U were great for playtimes. The Wii U even had pretty charts to show monthly play times. They went a step back with the Switch regarding playtimes.
Nintendo just shot themselves in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase a Switch, nor will they purchase any of Nintendo's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Nintendo has alienated an entire market with this move.
Nintendo, publicly apologize for resetting the clock or you can kiss your business goodbye.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase a Switch, nor will they purchase any of Nintendo's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Nintendo has alienated an entire market with this move.
Nintendo, publicly apologize for resetting the clock or you can kiss your business goodbye.
Sounds like a simple display bug on the page.
I'd presume that all the Switch UI pages are HTML based, and in this case the JS library they used for date handling (eg moment.js) just wasn't being given the year input.
So don't panic yet. I've had plenty of bugs in stuff I've worked on that looked like horrendous losses of data but were little more than display glitches. It's rare to automatically wipe out stuff on a DB level - you typically only do that for stuff that's meant to be temporary or has some sort of retention policy decided upon with a customer.
I'd presume that all the Switch UI pages are HTML based, and in this case the JS library they used for date handling (eg moment.js) just wasn't being given the year input.
So don't panic yet. I've had plenty of bugs in stuff I've worked on that looked like horrendous losses of data but were little more than display glitches. It's rare to automatically wipe out stuff on a DB level - you typically only do that for stuff that's meant to be temporary or has some sort of retention policy decided upon with a customer.
Didn't do anything with my save files actually. I booted the game up one day and then it said "first played one minute ago" despite being fine the entire time. It's weird.
The Switch's activity tracker works off of the timer on your save file, changing the date wouldn't have any effect on it whatsoever (just like you can't force the Activity Log to display your play time by setting a date ten days into the future).
I don't think this is a big deal, if you delete your play data and re-play a game your playtime is restored so they're all saved individually somewhere. This is likely just a display bug, I bet the times are safe.
Brb jumping in for 5 hours so I can beat you.
Chances are this is just a line of badly written code that's going to fix itself after 10 days.
The Switch isn't supposed to retrieve your playtime until 10 days have passed since the first time you played a game. The code for that was probably badly written and only checks for date and month, but not year.
Once 10 days have passed, it'll likely retrieve the proper playtime again.
The Switch isn't supposed to retrieve your playtime until 10 days have passed since the first time you played a game. The code for that was probably badly written and only checks for date and month, but not year.
Once 10 days have passed, it'll likely retrieve the proper playtime again.
It's the only meta data we have on our Switch for our games and some people love stats.
Oh man, if that were to happen, words cannot express how angry everyone would get.
I don't care for playtime but come on, this is amateur hour, Nintendo deserves to be laughed at .
They do stuff like this all the time, no vc , bare OS, no apps. There is no excuse, they have the means to get this stuff right and yet they don't but you have people defending their lazy choices.
Even regular people love to track their stats. Like in games like COD or Fortnite BR. My co-workers like to know their KD or how many times they win or get to a certain place.
Heh, lucky for you I'm addicted to Bayonetta at the moment. I haven't touched Breath of the Wild in ages!
Looks like Nintendo engineers are hard at work cutting out cardboard boxes and too busy to complete the Switch OS.
I like data and stats too, but I don't think this is something that warrants an outrage.
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