Just wanted to share something I discovered thanks to a thread on Famiboard.
As we all know the Switch has a pretty poor tracking of playtime. Limited to the last 20 games played and rounded down to the closest 5 hours.
However there is a free website called exophase that allows full* tracking. The link is this: https://www.exophase.com/
It works by creating an account and then registering the friend code of the account you want to track. It doesn’t send you a friend request but the account needs to have the play activity made public in the privacy settings.
After linking the account the service will scan the account and give you a list of the exact playtime of the last 20 games played. By manually playing each game and then scanning the Nintendo account from the toggle on the website you can then track your complete playtime.
For example, [this are my top 5 most played Switch games.](https://i.imgur.com/nykSFeP.png)
I thought it could be useful for people who still miss the 3DS activity log like I do.
by Joseki100
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I literally just made an account on this website yesterday after seeing people talk about it on the comments of a reddit post. I’d highly recommend it to any stats nerds out there, super clean website and easy to use!
When a website made by random people can provide you more accurate information than the console itself…. lol, well played Nintendo, well played.
That also means that this data is clearly noted on the Nintendo Account, Nintendo simply decides to not give it and round in 5 hours chunk instead, I really dont get their logic here.
Especially since the 3DS that came 6 years before was able to track by the minute…
Not completely accurate though. BC it has put one of my games at 10 hrs whereas I have played it for 13-15 hrs
A lot of my play times from anything 3+ years old is always reset back to 0. Very frustrating. Does this count retroactively or just moving forward after creating the account? Edit: nope, still not 100% accurate, darn 🙁
Neat
Thanks for the suggestion; will check it out.
However, the use of an resolved asterisk is bugging the hell out of me. What’s the caveat?
Oh wow, that’s pretty cool! I’ll try it myself, I’d like to see some exact numbers.
i actually didnt know you could add switch, i have steam xbox and psn on it. guess ill add switch
too bad it can still only show the 20 last played games. I want to see how many hours I’ve got in FE 3 Houses and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but I don’t wanna have to play them to see that lol
This is a godsend, thank you
Remember when the 3DS could track playtime down to the day? What happened to that technology?
I want the exact playtimes, and maybe first played and last played dates, but I don’t want the number of times opened, specific days played, and average session statistics from the 3DS. They probably did the rounded hours thing for aesthetics or because they felt that exact playtimes are usually skewed anyway, which is true. I’ve spent many hours away from open games.
All the other stuff was fluff and honestly just made me feel bad for putting in a 20-minute session for a game where my average playtime per session was several hours.
Was just thinking how I missed the activity log on wii u, was kinda cool to go back and see the days where I was a complete couch potato playing new releases
Been using exophase for years. I never realised they added Switch support.
Thanks for the heads up OP!
Oh yes. This sounds safe
Does this also combine the playtime for different switches (with the same account) that i have?
Thanks for the tip! Had no idea they had added that function.