YouTube officially lands on the Switch eShop

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After rising rumors during the last couple of days, Nintendo has confirmed the inevitable: YouTube is officially available on the Nintendo Switch's eShop as of today.

Nintendo's official announcement reads the following:
Kick back, relax and enjoy all of YouTube on your Nintendo Switch. There's entertainment for everyone, like music videos, movies, gaming livestreams and the latest viral sensations. Explore a world of videos with personalised recommendations and easy access to your channel subscriptions. So grab your friends, family and your controller, and enjoy YouTube together.

Available as a free download, the official YouTube app requires 93.32 MB to install, supports 11 languages and can be played in Handheld mode, Tabletop mode and TV mode.

Which YouTube channel you be watching on you Switch?

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Which YouTube channel you be watching on you Switch?

My own one (shameless advertisement). :creep:
Nah, actually I'm not really watching my own videos (I mean, I already produced them). I'd rather stick to stuff like Silvagunner and a few gaming-related channels that offer background information about my favourite games.
 
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My own one (shameless advertisement). :creep:
Nah, actually I'm not really watching my own videos (I mean, I already produced them). I'd rather stick to stuff like Silvagunner and a few gaming-related channels that offer background information about my favourite games.

Is there anything about "drawbacks" the scene should be aware of?

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Wow, only took them, what, 18 months to release it? Better late than never.

That's actually rather impressive compared to what multimedia on the PS4 was like when it launched. The PS3 had pretty much everything and they started from zero with the PS4.
And it's not even like the Switch was marketed to be a multimedia console (even though it would be a good fit if you take its rather large screen into account).
 

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That's actually rather impressive compared to what multimedia on the PS4 was like when it launched. The PS3 had pretty much everything and they started from zero with the PS4.
And it's not even like the Switch was marketed to be a multimedia console (even though it would be a good fit if you take its rather large screen into account).

No, but it should have been available as the Wii and Wii U had YouTube. Makes no sense to delay it, not that hard to port YT to ARM.
 
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No, but it should have been available as the Wii and Wii U had YouTube. Makes no sense to delay it, not that hard to port YT to ARM.

Objection!
Of course it makes sense from a security point of view. I know, that's not what you consider your business, but that's just logical for a company to do.
If that app would eventually serve as an entrypoint, that would be enough of a reason to restrain from supporting Youtube on a future console. Or did you forget why there's no easily available browser on the Switch?
 

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Objection!
Of course it makes sense from a security point of view. I know, that's not what you consider your business, but that's just logical for a company to do.
If that app would eventually serve as an entrypoint, that would be enough of a reason to restrain from supporting Youtube on a future console. Or did you forget why there's no easily available browser on the Switch?

I think it's still a half-assed excuse. There's no logical explanation for a lack of Netflix or Prime, either, so yeah. Kinda stupid IMO.
 

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