Nintendo Switch only records up to 1 year of playtime, after that it resets back to 0 - READ OP

[Executive Taxi]

MOD EDIT 2: Nintendo have responded to this.

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-switch-time-played-counter-reset-bug

"Some Nintendo Switch owners' play activity information is displaying incorrectly. We are aware of the issue and we expect to have more information to share in the near future," a Nintendo spokesperson told USgamer.

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MOD EDIT: Here's a possible explanation for it on Reddit.

Looks like Nintendo's code is only looking for the day and month you last played the game and figuring out the time since then. It's ignoring the year.

It doesn't know you started March 3rd 2017, just March 3rd so 0 days ago.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSw...es_for_up_to/dv2k66r/?st=jea8xeke&sh=c6eda67b

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It's almost 1am here in Australia which means that it is the Switch's 1 year anniversary. Bizarrely, my and other
people's play activity for launch titles such as BotW are being reset to "First played 0 days ago"

 

[Superbadr]

Goddo Fuckingu Dammito Nintendo, REALLY??

 

[brochiller]

Y2K all over again.

Reset the clock!

 

[Tsukinopio]

You can't be serious...

 

[Deleted member 8112]

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[Bunkles]

Account progress reset! Happy one year!

 

[CesareNorrez]

That seems weird, what if I played BotW last week? Plus we know they were using the total playtime on reviews on their website. Hope it's just a glitch z

 

[diablogg]

Hahaha... Hahahahahahah really now?

 

[Saint-14]

Why would they put a 1 year limit?

 

[Dragonyeuw]

WTF? Why would they implement such a system??

 

[Conor419]

but why?

 

[mocoworm]

Wow. This isn't good news. I know it's not essential data to know, but still.

 

[show me your skeleton]

this is one of the most Nintendo problems ever, haha. hopefully an oversight that can get patched!

 

[Thardin]

It's almost 1am here in Australia which means that it is the Switch's 1 year anniversary. Bizarrely, my and other people's play activity for launch titles such as BotW are being reset to "First played 0 days ago"

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Y2K

 

[Deleted member 5086]

Hopefully this is just an error and can be fixed.

 

[The Cellar Letters]

That's a very Nintendo thing to do. Playtimes are going to be integrated into the App I'm sure.

 

[Yukinari]

Breaking News

Nintendo is 10 years behind everyone

 

[Herb Alpert]

This is stupid.

Why such a downgrade since the 3ds activity log ?

 

[jnWake]

Lol someone must have forgotten to put the year in the calculation of playtime.

 

[Deleted member 4541]

RIP Zelda playtimes

 

[PetrCobra]

They never expected the console to last very long it seems

 

[Kane]

FFS, Nintendo!!!

This must be a bug, right?

 

[WrenchNinja]

This is to make the Switch UI slick and fast. Who cares about unnecessary features, I'm only here for games /s

 

[Aiii]

Hopefully this is just an error and can be fixed.

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I think it's unlikely that the data just disappeared, so hopefully so.

 

[memoryman3]

I don't think this was an intentional design feature. Probably a bug. All sorts of funky things can happen with internal timers.

 

[Brandon]

Well that's lame.

 

[Resetti]

Reset the.... WHAT?????
Guess I have to screencap the profile before the clock hits 12 then.
Really? Nintendo?

 

[Thiago]

I miss the 3DS Activity Log. I hope they implement that on Switch.

 

[schuelma]

nooooooooooooooo

 

[Antony]

No fucking way!
Receipts though, post a screenshot

 

[EinBear]

Christ. I still don't understand why they didn't just copy the 3DS Activity Log. That thing was so great.

 

[Bear]

What is so difficult about implementing a rudimentary stats app? I've never understood why this is so hard.

 

[Bunkles]

I think it's unlikely that the data just disappeared, so hopefully so.

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What if the error is actually wiping your playtime making it unrecoverable? :o

 

[Sir_Bumble_Bee]

butwhy.gif

 

[Weebos]

Seems like an oversight that could be easily fixed.

 

[Deleted member 3897]

What in the fucking hell.

GIVE ME THE DAMN ACTIVITY LOG ON SWITCH GODDAMMIT

 

[Guipradi]

This has to be a joke. There is no reason for it to be this way. It registers hours even offline. WTH?

 

[black070]

Oh no, I really love that feature. :(

 

[Deleted member 2254]

It's because the Switch is a doomed system and nobody would have played it past the first year anyway. Nintendoomed indeed.

Spoiler

/s

 

[Ishiro]

ResetTheClock.gif?

 

[JordanKZ]

Oh Nintendo, what the hell is wrong with you guys? :D

 

[Bear]

Seriously, this is so lame.

 

[FusionNY]

Lmao, Nintendo is fucking weird.

 

[Mr. Capo]

I need the evidence OP.

 

[Neoxon]

Well that's weird, hopefully Nintendo changes this soon.

 

[Wise]

That is definitely strange.

 

[MatrixMan.exe]

RESETera.

 

[brainchild]

That's fucking ridiculous

 

[MuchiMuchiPink]

Breaking News

Nintendo is 10 years behind everyone

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Let's look up my playtime on my PS4. Oh wait...

 

[pulga]

Why are you like this, Nintendo?