Nintendo Store App Lets You Track Your Switch, 3DS And Even Wii U Gameplay Down to The Hour

Ever wondered precisely however galore hours you ploughed into Donkey Kong Bananza connected a circumstantial time this summer? The caller Nintendo Store app volition fto you find out.

Now disposable worldwide, the Nintendo Store app is chiefly a mode to browse and bargain Switch games and Nintendo merchandise. You tin download demos, get amiibo, and adjacent acquisition caller consoles oregon retro controllers.

But the app's astir unsocial diagnostic is simply a small much hidden. Head to your illustration and scroll down to find your Play Activity, which lists each Switch 1, Switch 2, 3DS and Wii U games you've played implicit the past mates of years. Selecting a peculiar rubric past lets you spot a scope of antecedently unseen information — including playtime by day.

For example, let's look astatine my prevention record for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which I played a batch backmost successful aboriginal 2020. My playtime is listed arsenic the alternatively vague "200 hours oregon more," but I tin besides spot erstwhile I archetypal played the crippled (March 3, 2020) and erstwhile I past played (July 8 the aforesaid twelvemonth — erstwhile I discontinue Animal Crossing games, I thin to spell acold turkey).

During those dates I played crossed much than 106 days, and scrolling down I tin see, by date, however overmuch I played connected each. Amid a drawstring of sessions wherever I played much than 5 hours per day, I tin spot a 6 hr 15 infinitesimal league I logged backmost successful aboriginal April. To beryllium fair, determination wasn't overmuch other to bash astatine the time.

Your play past tin beryllium ordered via longest played (Animal Crossing is my longest, intimately followed by Zelda: Breath of the Wild), the day you archetypal played a game, and via strategy — giving you a mates of options to look backmost astatine what you were playing respective generations ago. (My astir played Wii U game? Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.)

Or, of course, you could conscionable usage the app to shop. If you fancy trying it yourself, Nintendo Store is present disposable via the App Store and Google Play.

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