The Outcomes Of Our 2024 Swap Summer season Survey Are In

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

This 70-question blowout coated every 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 choice of posers about your favorite Nintendo-focused web site. Since summer season ended, our information monkeys have been crunching the numbers and it is time for the outcomes!

On this web page: The Outcomes Of Our 2024 Swap Summer season Survey Are In

1.You & Your Gaming Habits2.Swap – Video games, On-line, {Hardware}3.You & Nintendo (Life)4.Swap 2 & The Future5.And Lastly…

All questions had been elective 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, we could? 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 residing exterior the US/UK. There have been 52% of you having at the least one little one within the family of which 25% of you stated you play Swap video games collectively co-op, good.

With regards 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 properly 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 probably 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 Collection X: 7%, Collection S: 5%). Solely 0.3% have by no means owned a earlier Nintendo system (the most well-liked 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 ‘Customary Swap’, in comparison with 16% ‘Swap Lite’ and 27% had been ‘Swap OLED’s.

The preferred micro SD Card was a measly 128GB with 256GB coming a really shut second. Solely 18% of you’ve gotten a card with 1TB or extra capability. Time to improve when Swap 2 comes alongside?

Trying on the eShop, ‘Sufficient’ is the most typical 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 observe 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 by way of the apps in any respect, with simply 20% enjoying as soon as per week or extra. Folks usually agree that Nintendo Swap on-line represents good worth, although.

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

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

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

Of the 600,000+ video games that you just personal, 58% had been bought digitally by way of 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 ultimately. 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 most recent information, evaluations, and previews — in that order — are the three high causes you beautiful folks frequent nintendolife.com for all of your beautiful Nintendo-related content material wants, with our options simply behind them. 54% of you employ Nintendo Life as your major supply of Nintendo information, with YouTube taking on one other 25%.

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

With regards 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 — citing the rear. In fact, the right reply was F-Zero, which simply 0.8% of you picked.

Star Fox, Child Icarus, and Wario Land are the sequence with no Swap entry that you just most wish to see return, and as anticipated, a model new Mario or Zelda can be more than likely to make you decide up a Swap 2 on day one. Talking of which, let’s look to the long run…

Swap 2 & The Future

31% wish to see Sport Go come to Swap. The identical proportion of individuals (although not essentially the identical folks, in fact!) stated they would not be fascinated 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 most typical responses, with the intently associated ‘Higher ports of multiplatform video games’ coming in third. 7% are hoping for the return of the fantastic StreetPass, whereas 11% need a completely new distinctive function thrown into the combination.