The Results Of Our 2024 Switch Summer Survey Are In

A few months in the past we reached out to Nintendo Life readers with our Swap Summer time Survey, a chunky questionnaire designed (along with your assist) to evaluate the state of all issues Nintendo and Swap because the console cruises by its eighth yr – and as our ideas inevitably flip to its successor.

This 70-question blowout lined every little thing from the Swap eShop to Pleasure-Con drift, your previous Nintendo consoles to your hopes for the long run, to not point out a collection of posers about your favorite Nintendo-focused web site. Since summer season ended, our knowledge monkeys have been crunching the numbers and it is time for the outcomes!

All questions had been optionally available and never everybody who participated answered each single one – responses ranged between roughly 6,000 to 10,000 distinctive folks, so an enormous thanks to everybody who took the time to reply.

Let’s dive into the information, lets? Beginning with you.

You & Your Gaming Habits

By way of location, just below 50% of you might be within the US with 20% of you residing within the UK which leaves round a 3rd of you dwelling outdoors the US/UK. There have been 52% of you having at the least one little one within the family of which 25% of you mentioned you play Swap video games collectively co-op, good.

Relating to weekly gaming time, roughly 33% of respondees play as much as 5 hours of video games per week, barely extra play between six and ten hours, with the rest going nicely into double figures.

Motion, Journey, Platformer, and RPG are the popular genres, with 61% saying they play principally single-player Swap video games. Breath of the Wild (18%), Animal Crossing (15%), and Tears of the Kingdom (12%) take the rostrum for Swap recreation with essentially the most hours logged.

17% of respondees are rocking a gaming PC, whereas 15% complement their Swap with a PS5 versus 12% with an Xbox (Xbox Sequence X: 7%, Sequence S: 5%). Solely 0.3% have by no means owned a earlier Nintendo system (the preferred had been Wii and 3DS).

Swap – Video games, On-line, {Hardware}

Specializing in the Swap expertise, of all of the Switches you personal, 56% are ‘Normal Swap’, in comparison with 16% ‘Swap Lite’ and 27% had been ‘Swap OLED’s.

The hottest micro SD Card was a measly 128GB with 256GB coming a very shut second. Solely 18% of you could have a card with 1TB or extra capability. Time to improve when Swap 2 comes alongside?

Wanting on the eShop, ‘Enough’ is the commonest description of the eShop searching expertise, adopted by ‘Poor’, so there’s particular room for enchancment there, Nintendo. 99% of respondees have a Nintendo Account, with 17% having them in a number of areas.

1 / 4 of respondees make their very own lists or spreadsheets to maintain monitor of upcoming video games, with 19% turning to good ol’ Deku Offers and 16% making use of Nintendo Life’s Video games Assortment performance.

Turning to Nintendo Swap On-line, one in 5 respondees do not at present subscribe to NSO. Of those that do, 23% do not play retro video games through the apps in any respect, with simply 20% enjoying as soon as per week or extra. Individuals usually agree that Nintendo Swap on-line represents good worth, although.

Transferring on to the {hardware} — and controllers particularly — a whopping 53% have had Pleasure-Con drift troubles, with free Pleasure-Con rails affecting 16%. Simply 20% mentioned they’d had no Swap {hardware} points by any means. Concerning pad preferences, 64% choose the Professional Controller over Pleasure-Con (22%), with the rest liking third-party options higher.

Over half, 51% of you, mentioned that Swap’s battery life was ‘Good’ with 16% saying it was ‘Wonderful’ and solely 5% score it ‘Poor’. Moreover, 55% of you play Swap principally ‘Docked’ and 44% in ‘Handheld’. Nintendo actually did get the steadiness proper with this one did not they?

Apparently, between all of you pretty readers, you personal a staggering 93,196 free amiibo and 22,714 boxed amiibo. Will not any person set them free?!

Of the 600,000+ video games that you simply personal, 58% had been bought digitally through the eShop and 42% had been bought as bodily video games. When requested about their desire over bodily video games, the best issue was having a tough copy of a recreation that may’t be faraway from the eShop.

1 in 20 respondees say that they’ve experimented with modding their system’s firmware in a roundabout way. Maybe the largest shock of the survey is that solely a paltry 0.6% have ever taken their Swap to a rooftop social gathering. Scandalous!

You & Nintendo (Life)

Getting the newest information, opinions, and previews — in that order — are the three prime causes you pretty folks frequent nintendolife.com for all of your pretty Nintendo-related content material wants, with our options simply behind them. 54% of you utilize Nintendo Life as your major supply of Nintendo information, with YouTube taking on one other 25%.

On the subject of the impact of our opinions, 30% of you mentioned that our opinions ‘Typically’ affect your shopping for selections and an additional 47% mentioned ‘Typically’. Solely 8% of you mentioned our opinions ‘By no means’ affect you.

Relating to your favorite Nintendo sequence, The Legend of Zelda (39%) received by a mile. Tremendous Mario (14%) took silver, with Pokémon (9%) in third place and Metroid (6%) and Xenoblade (5%) — which can be folks’s favorite sequence they have been launched to on Swap — mentioning the rear. After all, the appropriate reply was F-Zero, which simply 0.8% of you picked.

Star Fox, Child Icarus, and Wario Land are the sequence and not using a Swap entry that you simply most need to see return, and as anticipated, a model new Mario or Zelda can be almost definitely to make you choose up a Swap 2 on day one. Talking of which, let’s look to the long run…

Swap 2 & The Future

31% want to see Recreation Move come to Swap. The identical share of individuals (although not essentially the identical folks, in fact!) mentioned they would not be enthusiastic about having streaming apps on Swap, though Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video had been the highest picks for everybody else.

Requested about your most desired function for Swap 2, higher efficiency in docked and handheld modes had been the commonest responses, with the carefully associated ‘Higher ports of multiplatform video games’ coming in third. 7% are hoping for the return of the wonderful StreetPass, whereas 11% desire a completely new distinctive function thrown into the combo.