Netflix still isn't on the Nintendo Switch, but at the very least, media consumers will be able to get their anime streaming fix with a new app that's just launched on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Crunchyroll, the anime-centered service, can now be enjoyed on your Switch, in both handheld and docked form. Offering currently airing shows like Attack on Titan Final Season, or completed shows such as Fate/stay Night, Crunchyroll allows you to stream anime for free, with the caveat of ads. There are also premium plans that start at $7.99 a month if you want to browse the full library of shows, both subbed and dubbed, with no interruptions.

Crunchyroll joins the likes of Hulu, Funimation, and YouTube, in terms of media streaming applications available on Nintendo's latest console. Netflix still lacks a release, which some have found irksome, given the streaming giant having previously released apps on both the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U.

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[ZeroFX]

Trash service just like Funimation, the only goal of these suckers is to ruin anime.

 

[xkoeckiiej]

They stopped with supporting the apple tv 3 out of the blue without any notice.
Asked them a quazillion times about it with vague answers not even stating they stopped support.
Crunchyroll is a garbage service.

edit; used to have a subscription for 40 bucks a year, changed payment info, with it i had to re buy (not renew) a whole subscription to 60 bucks a year. Despite that it would stay 40 when not changing payment info. ridiculous lmao

 

[SuperDan]

Nice I sure hope we get Netflix one day

 

[Jayro]

Or you could stream the anime for free on other websites and not from this shit service at all.

Or torrent them, building up your own fansubbed anime collection like a god.

 

[lordelan]

Well too bad I just stopped subbing to them :/ Took them WAY too long imho

While I love the idea behind Crunchyroll, it's not very user friendly imho. The experience is very different from using the app on a Fire TV, a mobile phone or a web browser.
The Fire TV app is the worst, as it jumps between quality levels and even aspect ratios from time to time, is laggy, buggy, wants me to put in my credentials every few weeks (that sucks on a Fire TV, really) and doesn't support multiple user profiles.

Still a nice touch to have it on the Switch I guess.
That's the way! (looking at you, Netflix and Amazon)

 

[Danolyen]

Great another broken Crunchyroll app. I really wish they would fix the ones that are out already.

 

[Lumince]

While I love the idea behind Crunchyroll, it's not very user friendly imho. The experience is very different from using the app on a Fire TV, a mobile phone or a web browser.
The Fire TV app is the worst, as it jumps between quality levels and even aspect ratios from time to time, is laggy, buggy, wants me to put in my credentials every few weeks (that sucks on a Fire TV, really) and doesn't support multiple user profiles.

Still a nice touch to have it on the Switch I guess.
That's the way! (looking at you, Netflix and Amazon)

Even on mobile I would have these issues with quality tanking out of nowhere and requiring me to close and reopen the app. Its been a buggy mess on my devices & its just put me off from wanting to pay them for something that is half baked. Hopefully they make it better in the future, but I will be going elsewhere for anime from now on.

 

[Something whatever]

too bad I can't put wcostream on my switch



yet

 

[dragonblood9999]

I have a subscription to them. I barely use it anymore. Also I don't remember the last time I paid for it. It's not attached to any of my CC but it still says I have premium.

 

[HarveyHouston]

Okay, so foreign content. BritBox would be nice.

 

[DedoGamingONE]

I swear I’ve seen this before

 

[PatrickD85]

A few decades later ...

But still better late then never.

 

[Flaire]

Erm... so that means we can get a cracked version just like on the jailbroken ps4

Well if you have a switch running android then yeah

 

[Marc_LFD]

'member when you could watch Netflix on your Wii?
I 'member.

When Netflix had good content.

 

[MasterJ360]

Well if you have a switch running android then yeah

That would be abit tedious to do just to watch anime. The cracked ps4 version requires no PSN to have access. If someone could patch it the same way for a hacked switch then we wont get that annoying "Your offline" message. I tried to use crunchyroll on my emunand that has incognito, so apparently it was trying to connect to Nintendo services.

 

[Marc_LFD]

it has been five fucking years

The Switch will probably last another 2-3 years, but it's just too little too late for this.

We're lucky if BotW2 gets released on the Switch although I'd bet it'll be a launch exclusive for the next Nintendo console.

 

[Delerious]

The Switch will probably last another 2-3 years, but it's just too little too late for this.

We're lucky if BotW2 gets released on the Switch although I'd bet it'll be a launch exclusive for the next Nintendo console.

BotW2 is still confirmed for 2022. Doubt Nintendo will be surprising us with any new consoles for a couple years, too, given we're still (very slowly) coming out of the chip shortage.

But yes, this is something that should have been done the first year or two of the Switch's release - along with Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and HBO Max - you know, all the streaming services that people commonly use that are on other consoles. WTF Nintendo?

 

[Deleted member 546149]

GASP! I COULD DO IT N MY PHONE OR SMART TV, NOW IT'S ON THE ONLY 1080P NINTENDO SWITCH AND IT'S TINY SCREEN

 

[Flaire]

That would be abit tedious to do just to watch anime. The cracked ps4 version requires no PSN to have access. If someone could patch it the same way for a hacked switch then we wont get that annoying "Your offline" message. I tried to use crunchyroll on my emunand that has incognito, so apparently it was trying to connect to Nintendo services.

Well it would have other uses than to just watch anime plus you'd have to be lucky I you don't have a Mariko switch.

 

[MasterJ360]

Well it would have other uses than to just watch anime plus you'd have to be lucky I you don't have a Mariko switch.

Other uses like what? recording anime? I have 2 hacked Switch actually, the cracked crunchyroll on the PS4 is based off the mobile android apk version which gotten cracked years back. The process can be done for the Switch, but I think ppl just don't want to be responsible in hacking an official app.