r/NintendoSwitch
Nintendo Switch - News, Updates, and Information
Founded October 2016 · Public — anyone can post
The central hub for all news, updates, rumors, and topics relating to the Nintendo Switch & Nintendo Switch 2. We are a fan-run community, not an official Nintendo forum.
Members
7,963,066
8M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
+0.0%
+3.6K members · ≈7d
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 3 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/NintendoSwitch
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| News / link | 59% | 3,401 |
| Discussion | 19% | 1,765 |
| Show & tell | 10% | 5,083 |
| Promo | 9% | 408 |
| Question | 3% | 8 |
| Lessons / story | 1% | 320 |
Based on 70 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 1,222
- Top 10% score
- 5,858
- Text posts
- 13%
- Got no replies
- 4%
- Busiest windows
- Tue 14:00 UTC, Wed 01:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Promotion goes in Daily Question Thread (Daily).
- No personal sales, affiliate links, or begging.: Personal sales, trading, affiliate links, and begging are not allowed on /r/NintendoSwitch. Pricing inquiries also are removed under this rule. Please ask pricing questions in the daily questions post.
- No Let's-Play, streaming, or similar spam: Examples:|? :--|:-- Unofficial "Let's Play" videos|✖ Non-Switch Footage|✖ Hype & reaction videos|✖ Unofficial unboxing video|✖ Unofficial news recap video|✖ Re-hosted videos, when the original is still available|✖ Personal and "influencer" live streams|✖ Official Publisher / Developer trailers and announcements|✔ Charity streams pre-approved by the Mod team|✔ High-quality technical analysis videos|✔ Video reviews (unless there's a Megathread)|✔ Informative capture clips (not generic game-play)|✔
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Expresses strong, relatable opinions, often with humor or sarcasm.
- — Provides specific details or context to clarify a post.
- — Shares personal experiences or preferences related to the topic.
- — Engages in debate or discussion by referencing other comments or common knowledge.
- — Offers helpful advice or answers direct questions.
- — Discloses relevant information, such as where to find shared files.
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r/NintendoSwitch — frequently asked
How many members does r/NintendoSwitch have?
r/NintendoSwitch has 7,963,066 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/NintendoSwitch growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/NintendoSwitch yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 3; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/NintendoSwitch?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/NintendoSwitch yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/NintendoSwitch created?
r/NintendoSwitch was founded in October 2016 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/NintendoSwitch?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/NintendoSwitch yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/NintendoSwitch for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/NintendoSwitch into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/NintendoSwitch's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/NintendoSwitch's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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