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News Nintendo adds a Most Played section to the eShop
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AAA Clock is Games as a Service done right
BombChorizo
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That top 10 list is very surprising! How is AAA Clock used? Are people leaving it displayed on their TVs? Or undocked with the hinge open?
Xenoblade 3
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I finished Disgaea 6 not too long ago, but Im surprised its #1.
It was on sale recently right ?
It was on sale recently right ?
BombChorizo
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As @Xenoblade 3 said, it may be due to a sale. Or maybe it's a whale situation where Disgaea players just play a shit-ton of hours.
Argot
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Sales would likely make these chart worse if anything because it would draw in less committed players who would play for like 20 minutes to check it out and bounce, lowering the average. Those who bought Disgaea 6 likely already know they'd like Disgaea and its a game that can be a major timesink if you really really like it.
Xenoblade 3
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That makes sense.
I really like the game, so I hope a lot of people bought it and they are spending lots of hours on it too lol.
linkwashere
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Number 18 is because of me.
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I'm impressed Valkyria Chronicles 4 is that "high", and Monster Hunter Rise that low. Places 95 and 94 respectively
In all seriousness the criteria for these rankings are obviously biased towards certain types of games (rpgs, strategy, sims, etc) but at the same time most of these are games that would have trouble lasting on sales rankings, or even making it there at all so it’s nice of Nintendo to try to bring more attention to them. If nothing else you can get a hint of game longevity/playerbase passion from them
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Dragon Quest Builders 2 still at #10. Very impressive! It's a big timesink and I really hope a third game will eventually see the light. The Switch version unfortunately felt inferior to me because the framerate easily got worse after making designs a little more complicated.
Maronic03
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This is funny because I was actually jobless when I played it.
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I mean, average playtime doesn't tell you much. Maybe there's just one person playing it, but they did so for 200 hours over the past 2 weeks.
Games with less than 2500 active players over the last 2 weeks can't qualify. No cheating.
King_Dodongo
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It is, but way below Gen and Stories 2 (#94)
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Is there any way this isn't ranked? Seems like some odd choices for certain games to be higher than others, then again a lot can be accounted for if the metric is only average play time.
Doesn't that make the "most played" tag line kind of meaningless, though?
Doesn't that make the "most played" tag line kind of meaningless, though?
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Also, Metroid Dead
LonkFromPA
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It blows my mind to not see Mario Kart here
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This would be a terrible metric to measure Animal crossing success by.
Despite what the first few months of the pandemic might have made some think, the series intent has almost always been it being the kind of game you hop on for maybe a few minutes a day to check out the daily shop items, maybe talk to a couple of villagers and pick up some fruit/shells.
Presumably with 30m+ sales there are a lot of people playing it that way, so the average playtime is always going to struggle to keep up with smaller games that also encourage you to do long sessions all in one go.
BombChorizo
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I love Picross but it's always been a quick distraction for me. Open it up, play a couple puzzles and then move onto another game.
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This is a pretty interesting list 
Since it's average playtime per player, rather than total playtime across all players, it can be thought of like a "Longest games that people actually stick with" list.
Lots of my favorite games are on here including Final Fantasy 12, Xenoblade 2, Bravely Default 2, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and NEO The World Ends With You. I guess I love these long RPGs. Maybe I should give Disgaea a try
Since it's average playtime per player, rather than total playtime across all players, it can be thought of like a "Longest games that people actually stick with" list.Lots of my favorite games are on here including Final Fantasy 12, Xenoblade 2, Bravely Default 2, Fire Emblem Three Houses, and NEO The World Ends With You. I guess I love these long RPGs. Maybe I should give Disgaea a try
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Oh, it's not actually a list of the most played games, I see.
That makes sense for Disgaea, then. Didn't 6 add a way to set the game up to grind automatically without player input? Seems like a lot of people probably just set it up to run by itself for hours at a time.
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There are how many Picross games now to spread those hours amongst I’m still finishing up S2
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How is this calculated? It's shocking that some of the best sellers aren't even on the list while the chart is being led by a lot of very niche titles.
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It's probably just 5 people playing Disgaea 6 and you can grind so much in that series that it's just adding up.
It says it in the original post: "Software with high average play times and at least 2500 active players within the last two weeks."
jariw
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Do you really expect all those million owners to produce an impressive time average for the past two weeks? During the past two weeks, my Smash total probably is around 15 minutes, and my Mario Kart total is 0 minutes.
I payed Torna all last week, and I booted it up thought Xenoblade 2 so all those hours are probably mine. I left the game running while I’m doing stuff cause I forgot to turn off my switch as well 
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Once you've played the single player parts all the way through, play time will generally go down, since you're only playing it at that point for multiplayer, online or otherwise.
RPGs with long-ish campaigns make up a huge amount of the top 20, more than their sales numbers would reasonably reflect, because you're playing more total hours completing the campaigns.
The results are statistically skewed, is what I'm saying, and that's probably on purpose, to put games like that higher up on an eShop listing.
People are really overestimating how much a single person could contribute to this ranking.
For example a hypothetical person who decided to cheat the system by leaving the game permanently turned on for 336 hours (2 weeks) wouldn't even contribute 8 minutes to the average of a game with 2500 active players (minimum amount required to qualify) with each of them playing only 1 hour total.
For example a hypothetical person who decided to cheat the system by leaving the game permanently turned on for 336 hours (2 weeks) wouldn't even contribute 8 minutes to the average of a game with 2500 active players (minimum amount required to qualify) with each of them playing only 1 hour total.
