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title: "Maximum number of hours of play time tracked"
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description: "Wondered how long your Nintendo Switch will track your play time for a specific game?"
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2019-09-13 16:44:20"
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Maximum number of hours of play time tracked | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Maximum number of hours of play time tracked](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/maximum-number-of-hours-of-play-time-tracked.jpg "Maximum number of hours of play time tracked")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/maximum-number-of-hours-of-play-time-tracked.jpg)Wondered how long your Nintendo Switch will track your play time for a specific game?

Well thanks to Twitter user **Samir AID** who has been playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for thousands of hours hunting Golden Lynels.

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Thanks to his effort we have found out that the maximum play time the NintendoSwitch will keep track for every piece of software is 9,999 hours.

> [\#NintendoSwitch](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/OcHiwiuMJm](https://t.co/OcHiwiuMJm)
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> — Samir AID (@SamirAIDMAN) [September 11, 2019](https://twitter.com/SamirAIDMAN/status/1171677127462117376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

After 9,999 hours, it will simply appear as “Played for 9,999 hours or more”.

Samir AID wow … that is a lot of Breath of the Wild sir!

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