Nintendo Switch – Year in Review 2024

[Julius]

It's up!

Zelda if the above doesn't work for anyone. 

So, how'd your year on the Switch look? 

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[Hero-of-Time]

Shoddy year for me. Mixture of a quiet Switch release schedule and the majority of my time being on the PS4/5.

54 hours on Mario Party in single player is pretty hilarious. 

[Helmsly]

I did not buy many games released this year on Switch (outside of Paper Mario 2), instead, I mostly brought and played older games I missed like Metroid Prime Remastered. Or I jumped back into games I never truly finished like CupHead.

Other then that, Fortnite is still the main game I keep going back to and I went back to Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed as they added new content throughout the year. I am quite surprised Mario Kart was my third most played game as I feel like I didn't play it much this year at all.

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[Cube]

My attempt at starting up exercise again earlier this year went well.

 

 

[Dcubed]

Once again, that’s not me playing ACNH, it’s someone else using my account.

If that one didn’t count, Great Ace Attorney Chronicles would probably be No: 3 (75 hours and counting!).

[Julius]

Think this year made it very clear that the Switch is far from my main console:

Oof...53 of my 57 hours played on Switch this year were split between my Top 3, with two of those being Pledge games, and the other being Tears of the Kingdom which I only played on the first 2 days of the year to help round off my 2023 games. All great games though, so, there's that. 

Been a weird stretch for me on Switch for a while now, I think there's just a lack of excitement this far into the console's life to drive me to play games on it; even though there are undoubtedly Switch games I still want to experience that I haven't yet, none really have that pulling power for me right now. Is it the potential idea of a Switch 2 performance bump I wonder? 

No clue  very curious to see what this list will look like next year, assuming the Switch 2 has landed in time for next year's Year in Review. 

[darksnowman]

Another great year of gaming on Switch.

[Hero-of-Time]

12 minutes ago, darksnowman said:

Another great year of gaming on Switch.

Given how many JRPGs you get through, I'm surprised that genre didnt win.

[Jonnas]

Predictable results. Guess I spent more time on Bloodstained than I thought. Also, that NES time was almost all Fire'n Ice. Don't sleep on that game!

It was interesting to see the results month to month, because they reflected my general journey through the NSO: during the month of Shmups, the SNES app was my most played "game" (so, mostly Starfox and EDF, but the others count as well); In the month of Wily Wars, it was the Mega Drive, and so on.

 

Surprisingly solid recommendations, too. The Nintendo algorhythm actually worked this year!

(except they also recommended Animal Crossing and Mario Kart. I understand they do that to everybody, but they're F-tier recommendations for me)

[bob]

Man, these yearly reviews are always so depressing.

 

 

On the positive side, this one is wrong, because in the past week, i actually got my son playing on the Switch for the first time! He wasn't that interested in Goose Game, but did love Mario Kart! Neither of those games seem to have shown up in the above, so it must have a date cut-off.