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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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Play time does appear glitched, as others are reporting. With my review Switch unit sent by Nintendo last year, I first played Breath of the Wild on February 20, 2017. This screenshot I just snapped claims I first played it 10 days ago on February 20, 2018.
So tomorrow you'll be able to find out if the numbers of hours played last year are kept or reset. If it's the former, I don't think it's such a huge problem and Nintendo could patch it without urgency.
Oh man, just when you think Nintendo will get it. Two steps forward, one step back is their name of the game.
Definitely not intentional, since one of the features of switch API lets games check other games played times. Don't think I've seen it used yet but it could severely mess up anything in the works that uses it
Yeah the Switch playtimes are terrible honestly, especially since they dont update until like a week after playing.
I looked at a friend's profile the other day and wondered why his BOTW progress had reset. I guess this explains it. The Switch really needs a 3DS-esque activity tracker.
I also believe it's a bug that can be solved. I think the full times aren't actually lost.
Yeah, apparently I spent like 4 days+ playing Mirror's edge catalyst and Phantom Dust! :-O I refuse to believe that (although i did play them a lot, i wonder is pause+console standby etc counts when the application is still running)
I remember reading that it starts displaying time you've spent on a game in hours after ten days.
Edit: There's a Eurogamer article on it.
I love how commited they are to this reference.
Also, only 35 minutes for the Direct!
By looking at this thread, you might think someone at Nintendo told his programmer 'yo can you do the time tracker part, please? Oh but make DAMN sure it resets every year'
Speaking as a programmer, stuff like this happens all the time. And to be fair, it is a reeeaaaaally small part of the UI. Its not like the system crashes and deletes your account, or opens a backdoor for hackers to break in.
Looks like a simple date subtraction bug. Possibly subtracting based on the day somehow instead of the total year. They could fix this by building a proper activity log like the 3DS had though.
So I put Zelda BotW in - 'First played 0 days ago.'
Next I put Bomberman in - previous accumulated game time.
Next I put Bomberman in - previous accumulated game time.
Yep. That would have been the reasonable thing to do.
But of course Nintendo starts from scratch.
Oddly enough, mine did reset, but it now says "Played 9 Days Ago".
Weird part, I did not play Breath of the Wild 9 days ago. The last game I played was Gorogoa back in December.
Weird part, I did not play Breath of the Wild 9 days ago. The last game I played was Gorogoa back in December.
if this was server side db - like steam - then they could easily fix this.
however, i think switch db is local - so even if they implement a fix, ya'll not getting your numbers back.
however, i think switch db is local - so even if they implement a fix, ya'll not getting your numbers back.
Finally Nintendo allowed me a way to wash away the sin of playing Breath of the Wild.
This is not intentional. a logical error in the code is probably causing the counter to reset. unfortunate, but it will get fixed.
That's a good way to get unsolicited Friend Requests, friend.
lol. there goes any interest in this feature. the only reason i downloaded the parental control app was to see the logged time but if it's gonna be reset like this, i'll delete the app and just screenshot my playtime. fortunately the first game i got was MK8D so i have time to take a screenshot (i played BotW on Wii U and it was the activity log what decided which console i picked funnily since i didn't mind the lower resolution as much as i was worried about the shittier activity log)
they're only behind themselves in this feature. the 3DS, Wii and Wii U had much better time logging features.
can you help me find the PS3 and PS4 activity logs?
they're only behind themselves in this feature. the 3DS, Wii and Wii U had much better time logging features.
can you help me find the PS3 and PS4 activity logs?
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