Topic: Logged hours for switch games

on profile page there is a Play Activity Section

For what it's worth, the Switch's play time is way off. It didn't seem correct to me, so I tested it by timing some of my sessions. The Switch time is regularly well below the actual time. Maybe it's designed that way to give the kids a break from overly restrictive parents!

Does the switch track offlline games? it doesn't look like it does but I could be wrong.

Edit: Seems to be just one game...I'll have to poke around the settings.

@Ryu_Niiyama no it does it tracked NBA Playgrounds before online was added via update

I can't see how much time I spent playing games, just when I played it first.. it says for Splatoon - first played 9 days ago. So for every other game.
What am I missing? Does it need some time like 2 weeks for calculations or what?

@CroRock Yeah it takes a while to switch to the play time display. I wanna say it's ten days but I'm not entirely sure. Shouldn't be more than a couple weeks, anyway.

Just another thing that's oddly clunky about it.

Yea, thats really odd.. I thought I'm looking at wrong place but can't find other.
Thanks for clearing this up

Updated:

Splatoon 2 - Played for 135 hours or more*
Stardew Valley - First played 1 day ago*
Death Squared - Played for a little while
Project OCTOPATH TRAVELLER (Demo) - First played 4 days ago
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Played for 140 hours or more*
Overcooked Special Edition - Played for 5 hours or more
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Played for 120 hours or more*
Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition (Demo) - Played for a little while
Blaster Master Zero (Demo) - Played for a little while
Splatoon 2 Splatfest World Premiere - Played for a little while
ARMS Global Testpunch - Played for a little while
Splatoon 2 Global Testfire - Played for a little while

I make that over 400 hours combined play time! How are everyone elses activity log's stacking up?

(Ooo! ..and just out of curiosity, the games marked '*' on the above list appear in green on my Switch profile - whereas the others are grey...anyone know why??)

Due to my Switch still being on the down-lo, my hours are a bit lame. Not done any Zelda DLC, and my time on MK8D and ARMS are well down on where I'd like them be.

BotW - 110hrs
MK8D - 45hrs
LEGO Worlds - 10hrs
ARMS - 5hrs
Stardew Valley - probably 5-10hrs

This feature doesn't work properly for me,
BOTW just has just "played for 15 hours or more" next to it for months now and everything else says "played for a little while"

All I can think is its because this is my second switch console so the records have gone weird

I don't have my Switch with me but here are the hours I can remember

Splatoon 2 - 80 Hours (or something like that)
ARMS - 15 Hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 30 Hours (Which is honestly a little surprising because I played the heck out of the original)
Sonic Mania - 15 Hours
Snipperclips - 10 Hours
Steamworld Dig 2 - 15 Hours

Disgaea 5. I'm 245 hours in and I'm far away from having done everything I want to do.

@vibet That's impressive. I'm not sure I've seen anyone else put more hours into a Switch game to date. What's your second most played game and hours?

Don't judge, I have a lot of time

Zelda: Breath of the Wild 215 hours
Dragonball Xenoverse 2 125 hours
Fire Emblem Warriors 95 hours
Mario + Rabbids 65 hours
Fate/Extella 40 hours

I hope to clock in some serious hours on a good co-op game soon.

@UmniKnight Wowsers - 95hrs on FEW already - that's good going. You like it then?

@gcunit I'm an awkward person if nothing else, and when I sink my teeth into a game, I tend to play most of it out. It's good, aye, though I would wish the A.I. was a little smarter than it is, even if it's a ton smarter than most Warrior A.I. and due to all my hours played, I've also noticed who is clones of who and that they did cut some corners in making this game. But all in all, it's a nice title for what it is, and I suppose I may be somewhat critical because I've gone for just about all the content (Story, History Mode, all of the Anna collect-thingies and her extra levels completed) and thus have gone the distance through it.

As far as I'm concerned, it's complete. I'd only have to craft the "true" upgrade for everyone's special weapon, and grind out the 10,000 KO requirements for them, but honestly, the core gameplay wears thin before that. Warriors games are great, but they tend to get repetitive.

Oh, that reminds me - I think that I've figured out the activity log colour coding (mentioned above): grey = digital, green = physical! That seems to be the pattern in my list at least: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2 and Mario Kart are the only games I have on cart - and they are the three games that appear green in my activity log - so...mystery solved! )

@NaviAndMii I'll have to take a closer look at that, once I get a digital title. I've been avoiding them like the bubonic plague

@NaviAndMii Not how mine works at all:

I don't have any green, but either blue or grey.

Grey is for everything, except notable entries. My MK8D entry is blue and notable because that's the most played game on that profile; Chess Ultra and Super Beat Sports are both also blue, notable because I only bought them recently. That's my guess.

Stardew Valley and Super Beat Sports are both eshop titles, all the others in that image are physical.

@gcunit Huh? MYSTERY RE-OPENED! I'm using the 'Basic Black' theme, which may explain why mine are green instead of blue - but, yeah, curious...all of my physical games also have 100+ hours playtime, so that could have something to do with it? ..although, my next highest (Stardew Valley - 25+ hours) is (and always has been IIRC) grey :/ ..head-scratcher!

EDIT: So, I've just looked on Reddit and someone claims to have found the answer: the conditions for a game going blue/green in the activity log are 1) played the game for 50+ hours or 2) played the game recently - so a friend can see what games you like to play at a quick glance (if true, I probably didn't remember correctly and Stardew Valley did appear as green on my activity log after all! ..it's since gone grey, probably because I've not played it in a while as I'm waiting for an audio issue to be patched)