Nintendo Launches Store App on iOS and Android With Cool Game Playtime Breakdown

As for the search functionality, it lets you search by keyword, by genre, view merchandise by game, and look through various system and accessory categories, such as searching specifically for refurbished systems. It has categories for best sellers, demos, deals, multiplayer games, etc. There’s also a news tab, which provides posts on what’s coming to the store in the next month.

On the one hand, this is all very par for the course, and basically just takes the functionality you’d see on the web version of the Nintendo store and translates it into an app (with the capability for push notifications related to when games you’ve wishlisted are released or get a discount.

However, there’s one feature buried on the last tab of the app that is particularly cool, and as far as I’m aware, something only offered in this app: a specific breakdown of your play activity on Nintendo consoles dating back to the 3DS. While you can view an approximate playtime of how many hours you’ve sunk into games directly on the Switch and Switch 2, the Nintendo Store app’s breakdown is far more granular. It gives you the date you started playing and the last time you played, along with a breakdown of how much time you put in on specific dates.

While it somewhat annoyingly doesn’t give you the exact playtime either, it makes it possible to add up a more accurate estimate based on the daily play activity. You can also sort your list of games by total time played, date first played, game system, and more. Excuse me while I reminisce about the alarming number of hours I sunk into Animal Crossing during the pandemic.