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

Ever wondered exactly how many hours you ploughed into Donkey Kong Bananza on a specific day this summer? The new Nintendo Store app will let you find out.

Now available worldwide, the Nintendo Store app is primarily a way to browse and buy Switch games and Nintendo merchandise. You can download demos, acquire amiibo, and even purchase new consoles or retro controllers.

But the app’s most unique feature is a little more hidden. Head to your profile and scroll down to find your Play Activity, which lists all Switch 1, Switch 2, 3DS and Wii U games you’ve played over the last couple of years. Selecting a particular title then lets you see a range of previously unseen data — including playtime by day.

For example, let’s look at my save file for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which I played a lot back in early 2020. My playtime is listed as the rather vague “200 hours or more,” but I can also see when I first played the game (March 3, 2020) and when I last played (July 8 the same year — when I quit Animal Crossing games, I tend to go cold turkey).

During those dates I played across more than 106 days, and scrolling down I can see, by date, how much I played on each. Amid a string of sessions where I played more than five hours per day, I can see a 6 hour 15 minute session I logged back in early April. To be fair, there wasn’t much else to do at the time.

Your play history can be ordered via longest played (Animal Crossing is my longest, closely followed by Zelda: Breath of the Wild), the date you first played a game, and via system — giving you a couple of options to look back at what you were playing several generations ago. (My most played Wii U game? Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.)

Or, of course, you could just use the app to shop. If you fancy trying it yourself, Nintendo Store is now available via the App Store and Google Play.

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