RolStoppable said:
It's good that Nintendo doesn't have it, because an overarching achievement system forces achievements into games that don't need them at all.
Any developer is free to put achievements into their games, so any multiplatform game on Switch that doesn't have them is a developer decision, not a prohibition on Nintendo's behalf. Given that more often than not there are no achievements, it's pretty telling how most developers think about achievements.
The best kind of achievement lists are those that result in in-game rewards of some kind, but what overarching achievement systems have done for the most part is not that at all. |
Since in-game achievements don't allow you the convenient access to your "gameplay history" in the way a system wide feature does, I possibly wouldn't putting them in if I was developer either. For me it defeat the entire purpose.
I'm not going to dust off my old PS3, download, install and boot up MGS4 again just to check the thing I mentioned in my previous post. But if it's just a few clicks away on my home screen menu, why not.
And if it's in-game only I wouldn't be able to check them on my friend's side. The other day I noticed that my friend was playing a game I thought he already completed years ago. But upon looking at his trophies, I saw that he reached Chapter 1 in 2017, Chapter 2 a few days ago, and chapter 3 yesterday.
So it's pretty easy to figure out what happened there just from a quick glance.
I've also used the compare-trophies side-by-side feature at times and for example found it interesting how someone got a certain trophy, but missed another, since they seemingly go together. So the next time I spoke to them, I asked.
It probably takes very little development time to create. But adding additional code for one specific version is something that has the potential to cause issues when rolling out updates. So that could be an argument against adding an in-game version of it.
That said, I found a list of 513 Switch games that have in-game achievements of some kind, that someone compiled on Reddit a while ago.
List Of Switch Games With In-game Achievements (In Progress) : NintendoSwitch (reddit.com)