The Outcomes Of Our 2024 Change Summer season Survey Are In

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

This 70-question blowout lined 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 number 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 non-compulsory 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 outdoors the US/UK. There have been 52% of you having no less than one little one within the family of which 25% of you mentioned 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 principally single-player Change video games. Breath of the Wild (18%), Animal Crossing (15%), and Tears of the Kingdom (12%) take the rostrum for Change recreation with probably 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 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).

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

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

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

Trying on the eShop, ‘Ample’ is the most typical description of the eShop looking 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 Change On-line, one in 5 respondees do not presently 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 Change 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 Change {hardware} points in anyway. 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, mentioned that Change’s battery life was ‘Good’ with 16% saying it was ‘Glorious’ and solely 5% score it ‘Poor’. Moreover, 55% of you play Change 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 anyone set them free?!

Of the 600,000+ video games that you simply 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 very 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 Change 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%.

Close to the impact of our opinions, 30% of you mentioned that our opinions ‘Typically’ affect your shopping for choices and an additional 47% mentioned ‘Typically’. Solely 8% of you mentioned our opinions ‘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 Change — citing the rear. In fact, the appropriate 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 simply most need to see return, and as anticipated, a model new Mario or Zelda could be most certainly 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 Sport Go come to Change. The identical share of individuals (although not essentially the identical folks, in fact!) mentioned they would not be occupied with having streaming apps on Change, though Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video had been the highest picks for everybody else.

Requested about your most desired characteristic for Change 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 wonderful StreetPass, whereas 11% need a completely new distinctive characteristic thrown into the combination.