Gaming Netflix status

[ZanderX420]

Anyone know the status on when Netflix is coming to Nintendo switch?

 

[Vieela]

Really, it might never come. I wouldn't really expect this year yet, seeing that getting Netflix on a new system can be a quite hard thing to accomplish (i talk about the whole licensing part of it) so i don't think it will come anytime soon in this year.

EDIT: Apparently, Nintendo wants the gaming console to be more "stable" until they can start to focus on anything else that isn't gaming. So i would guess they would have it managed out until next year, seeing that most of its "big" releases were already out there and the holiday season would've already passed, a january - april 2019 release date seems really plausible.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

Anyone know the status on when Netflix is coming to Nintendo switch?

from what i've heard they have no plans on it

 

[DiscostewSM]

EDIT: Apparently, Nintendo wants the gaming console to be more "stable" until they can start to focus on anything else that isn't gaming.

And yet it has a number of streaming apps, including Hulu.

 

[k3rizz3k]

I imagine Nintendo is simply waiting until this fall, when their for-pay online services go live. When that happens, Nintendo will be earning $20 a year from every Switch owner who wants to use their online features. Streaming videos to Netflix would likely be a part of that ecosystem. It would probably be a bad idea to bring in Netflix now and, a few months later, start charging folks to be able to use the app on the Switch.

Quoted from another website.

Netflix wants it, the VP of HR has stated as much. Nintendo is focusing on other things.

 

[Vieela]

And yet it has a number of streaming apps, including Hulu.

As i said, it might be all about licensing. Nintendo Switch has Hulu probably because it was planned waaay before. I mean, the 3DS and Wii U had Netflix in their very first year (like the Wii U, which apparently had Netflix ever since it's day 1), but Nintendo Switch might haven't just got all the time to plan. And from what it seems, the Nintendo Switch even seemed a bit rushed, since on 1.0.0 firmware you can see A LOT of security holes, which could possibly indicate they were rushing it to meet investors interests or really, who knows. For sure it is indeed coming for the Switch, but they just want to get their plataform more stable before they can actually introduce anything else.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

And yet it has a number of streaming apps, including Hulu.

so far theres only like 3 streaming apps

 

[smileyhead]

Anyone know the status on when Netflix is coming to Nintendo switch?

Let me check my crystal ball

 

[supergamer368]

Apparently, Nintendo wants the gaming console to be more "stable" until they can start to focus on anything else that isn't gaming..

Oh I see so we'll have netflix in about 50 years

 

[James310]

from what i've heard they have no plans on it

But didn’t they said it’s ready to to be sent to Nintendo when they get the ok word from them?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

But didn’t they said it’s ready to to be sent to Nintendo when they get the ok word from them?

dont think so

 

[Dan-the-Rebirth]

Well there are hb internet browser and hb media player in the works. So maybe we get a hb Netflix app(maybe Linux asked)

 

[aykay55]

I imagine Nintendo is simply waiting until this fall, when their for-pay online services go live. When that happens, Nintendo will be earning $20 a year from every Switch owner who wants to use their online features. Streaming videos to Netflix would likely be a part of that ecosystem. It would probably be a bad idea to bring in Netflix now and, a few months later, start charging folks to be able to use the app on the Switch.

Quoted from another website.

Netflix wants it, the VP of HR has stated as much. Nintendo is focusing on other things.

Not every service. Most games will require a subscription but other apps may not require an NSO subscription to be used.

Which games require a Nintendo Switch Online membership to access online play?
Nintendo Switch games such as Splatoon™ 2, ARMS™, Mario Kart™ 8 Deluxe, Mario Tennis™ Aces, and Sushi Striker™: The Way of Sushido, will require a Nintendo Switch Online membership, but other games will vary.