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 Change Summer time Survey, a chunky questionnaire designed (along with your assist) to evaluate the state of all issues Nintendo and Change because the console cruises via its eighth 12 months – and as our ideas inevitably flip to its successor.

This 70-question blowout coated every part from the Change 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 Change Summer time Survey Are In

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

All questions have 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, slightly below 50% of you’re within the US with 20% of you residing within the UK which leaves round a 3rd of you residing outdoors the US/UK. There have been 52% of you having a minimum of one baby within the family of which 25% of you stated you play Change 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 nicely into double figures.

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

17% of respondees are rocking a gaming PC, whereas 15% complement their Change 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 most well-liked have been Wii and 3DS).

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

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

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

Trying on the eShop, ‘Satisfactory’ is the commonest description of the eShop shopping 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 Change On-line, one in 5 respondees do not at the moment 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% taking part in as soon as per week or extra. Individuals usually agree that Nintendo Change on-line represents good worth, although.

Shifting 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% stated they’d had no Change {hardware} points in any way. Concerning pad preferences, 64% favor the Professional Controller over Pleasure-Con (22%), with the rest liking third-party alternate options higher.

Over half, 51% of you, stated that Change’s battery life was ‘Good’ with 16% saying it was ‘Glorious’ and solely 5% ranking it ‘Poor’. Moreover, 55% of you play Change largely ‘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 free amiibo and 22,714 boxed amiibo. Will not any individual set them free?!

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

1 in 20 respondees say that they’ve experimented with modding their system’s firmware indirectly. Maybe the most important shock of the survey is that solely a paltry 0.6% have ever taken their Change to a rooftop celebration. Scandalous!

You & Nintendo (Life)

Getting the newest information, critiques, and previews — in that order — are the three prime 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 main supply of Nintendo data, with YouTube taking over one other 25%.

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

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

Star Fox, Child Icarus, and Wario Land are the sequence with out a Change entry that you just most wish to see return, and as anticipated, a model new Mario or Zelda could be almost definitely to make you decide up a Change 2 on day one. Talking of which, let’s look to the long run…

Change 2 & The Future

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

Requested about your most desired function for Change 2, higher efficiency in docked and handheld modes have 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 fantastic StreetPass, whereas 11% desire a completely new distinctive function thrown into the combo.