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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[ShadowOne333]

Hey guys, after I got the NSP I've been trying to reverse-engineer some of the code, and I've found out that the code calls account services, and it seems to try to ensure that the Switch's user has a valid NNID, or if it can connect to Nintendo Services. People are reporting that it fails under 90dns or similar things...
(what a pity, I'm banned too...)

Best of luck with the RE!
Hope those calls to N's services can be bypassed somehow.
it was such a shitty thing for Nintendo to do, to even prohibit users that have been banned from accessing third party stuff.

 

[shadoom]

To the guys complaining that it took so long to port.
They break the YouTube android app on a monthly basis. Chromecast support had issues since the beginning of Time that they sometimes fix but with the next update of YouTube is broken again. Either they focus on banning innocent YouTubers or they only have a team of monkeys bashing keys

 

[THEGUY3ds]

Internet browser next?

 

[Silent_Gunner]

Internet browser next?

The moment they implement that is moment the floodgates will open like they did with the Wii U!

 

[THEGUY3ds]

The moment they implement that is moment the floodgates will open like they did with the Wii U!

And 3ds Tubehax2.

 

[aykay55]

Unfortunately the YouTube app does not recognize that the Switch’s internal display is 720p and plays 1080p video meaning longer load times on bad WiFi.....

 

[XorTroll]

Best of luck with the RE!
Hope those calls to N's services can be bypassed somehow.
it was such a shitty thing for Nintendo to do, to even prohibit users that have been banned from accessing third party stuff.

I mean, I've just checked some code, and the code uses such as: "account::EnsureNetworkServiceAccountAvailable", at least the code has or calls this functions somewhere

 

[KuraudoSutoraifu]

Unfortunately the YouTube app does not recognize that the Switch’s internal display is 720p and plays 1080p video meaning longer load times on bad WiFi.....

You can select the video quality...

 

[Megadriver94]

Now for Netflix as well as either Skype or Discord services for Switch.

 

[wiewiec]

Shame that it only sync via code - but if they use web browser it probably be exploitable

 

[Deleted User]

An homebrew app of YouTube would be better then this, since you can run it while a game is suspended in the background. You know, for those times you need to watch a walkthrough or where to find easter eggs and generate glitches.

 

[Technicmaster0]

Do you need the online subscription to use it?

 

[Essasetic]

Do you need the online subscription to use it?

No.

 

[ChrisMCNBVA]

Now we need fx and netflix to be complete so I can watch simpsons lol

 

[the_randomizer]

Now we need fx and netflix to be complete so I can watch simpsons lol

Simpsons is on Simpson's World/FX, it was never on Netflix.

 

[VashTS]

i need twitch! this is great though

 

[therysin]

Hope someone REs this and disables the NNID reliance.

 

[pwsincd]

i would like to say thanks to @Ep8Script for his switchtube service. was fun while it lasted

 

[CKkio23]

I mean, I've just checked some code, and the code uses such as: "account::EnsureNetworkServiceAccountAvailable", at least the code has or calls this functions somewhere

Ohh i figured it wasnt easy as install nsp and play youtube b&. Anyways good luck on modifying the code hopefully you get it to work without NNID

 

[Essasetic]

i would like to say thanks to @Ep8Script for his switchtube service. was fun while it lasted

It will still be useful for people like me who are banned

 

[pwsincd]

hmm so we should keep it up ?