Nintendo of America Shares List of Top 20 Most Played Switch Games in 2017

No prizes for guessing what the most played one was.

Posted By | On 05th, Jan. 2018

Nintendo of America has shared a list of the most played Nintendo Switch games in 2017 in North America, and it seems like, as everyone may have expected, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tops the chart on this front.

Zelda aside, this is a marvelously diverse chart, with a healthy representation of first party games, third party games, and indie games, and it seems to indicate that the Switch audience is a vibrant, engaged one, and all publishers can find success here. Of interesting note here is the performance of Stardew Valley and Skyrim, two third party games that have done very well on the platform (as has Minecraft), the shockingly high ranking of NBA, and the relatively lower ranking of FIFA (indicating Switch owners want ports on par with the competition on their platform), and Rocket League managing to edge its way on to the chart in spite of launching in the middle of December.

You can check out the full list for yourself below- I wonder what the final list for 2018 will look like.

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  2. Super Mario Odyssey
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  4. Splatoon 2
  5. Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition
  6. Stardew Valley
  7. Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
  8. ARMS
  9. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  10. The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
  11. NBA 2K18
  12. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch
  13. Fire Emblem Warriors
  14. Lego City Undercover
  15. Sonic Mania
  16. Pokkén Tournament DX
  17. 1-2-Switch
  18. FIFA 18
  19. Disgaea 5 Complete
  20. Rocket League

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