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Reggie on the Lack of Netflix on Nintendo Switch: Ask Netflix
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If Nintendo says to ask Netflix, and Netflix says to ask Nintendo, then who's flying the plane??
Which ones? It's literally just Netflix and Vudu in terms of big ones, and Vudu hasn't ever supported Nintendo AFAIK.
No they said Nintendo wanted to launch the system with only games, but then 4-5 months after Nintendo was open to apps like we saw with Hulu and Niconico, it's Netflix that lost interest now.
Seems like a question Reggie could tackle, right? Like asking Twitch, Youtube, Netflix, ESPN, HBO, Showtime, Starz etc etc etc why their apps are out on everything except the Switch. Again, this is on Nintendo.
I think it's partially a standard thing (everyone multimedia device nowadays has at least Netflix, Prime, Hulu and YouTube), and it's a convenient thing because people who just played a game on the Switch can just go to Netflix there instead of changing to a different device or whatever
Didn't know Nintendo made the streaming apps for these companies.
Nico and Hulu have apps up. No excuse for Netflix, CR/VRV, Vudu, etc.
Crunchy roll? YouTube, vudu, Amazon prime. All of these are everywhere else they just saying screw Nintendo?
why would he?
I think Reggie means that in the first 12 months it was in their fault but now they enabled it for all.
Hulu and no Netflix was a condition by Disney to get in early on their streaming service. Don't believe me? Look at their recent partnerships.
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Exactly. The argument that Nintendo's holding it up would hold weight if Hulu didn't already have an app up.
You can't be serious lol. Prime, YouTube, WWE Network, Crunchyroll, Crackle, Spotify, etc. There's ton more than just Netflix, Hulu and Vudu lol. I don't think anyone even gives a shit about Vudu anymore
At launch it was ok not to have it, but now after over a year in 2018 when everything including WiiU and PS Vita have Netflix and Youtube not having them on a successuful console which can also be a tablet like the Switch is ridiculous. Also Switch is based on ARM which is the same architecture every mobile device uses, it should take weeks at most to make a Switch version
Regardless, there is zero reason for Nintendo to give Nico Nico and Hulu the OK, but block off everyone else. It's not a logical argument.
This is such a terrible argument. How is having apps I use all the time "bloat"? One mans bloat is another mans options. Options are good because they allow people who want something to have it, and those who dont want it dont have to have it.
I can say the same thing about EA and Capcom putting games on the Switch, yet here we are.
Even if that's the case, the Switch has been a smash hit for long enough for them to have rectified that by now. I imagine something more is going on by the scenes either with Netflix or with Nintendo, but no idea what it could be. If it was just a case of Netflix waiting to see the numbers, determine Switch wasn't a flop, then developing the app from scratch, it still would have launched a while ago.
Imagine being Netflix and thinking "Ok, should we devote a budget to this totally surperfluous device when everyone owns a tablet or telephone with a better screen? Should we? Ok, let's move on".
The biggest problem is that the switch's screen is terrible compared to most devices that Netflix supports. What's the point in offering an inferior experience?
The biggest problem is that the switch's screen is terrible compared to most devices that Netflix supports. What's the point in offering an inferior experience?
Personally if I had the choice, I would use my Switch for Netflix over my phone. Slightly larger screen than my phone, can watch uninterrupted( phone calls) and the Switch has the little built-in kickstand.
Something like Netflix should be a no-brainer for any modern entertainment device IMHO, especially a portable one, regardless if it's a secondary function.
Let's say its on Netflix, what about YouTube, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, ESPN, etc.? Is Hulu and that other app just the only reasonable ones and every streaming app that's managed to be on every other platform besides switch in the wrong? I don't really see that being that case.
The nintendo switch might lack something that goes against streaming conditions Netflix /youtube/ others have set up
There's various laws regarding TCP/IP where a device has to stream at certain bit and maybe the nintendo switch isn't hitting those right conditions. Then again Hulu has managed to be on the system so wtf?
There's various laws regarding TCP/IP where a device has to stream at certain bit and maybe the nintendo switch isn't hitting those right conditions. Then again Hulu has managed to be on the system so wtf?
I use to want Netflix on the Switch but I cancelled it. Now I just want the YouTube app and a browser.
Pretty soon, there will be a Robot Chicken skit where someone asks a Reggie toy "where's Netflix" in which toy Reggie will say "with Mother 3".
They could have also asked that question with respects to the Wii U and especially the 3ds( talking about inferior screens) if that were the case. I can't imagine this being a barrier with regards to why it doesn't currently exist on Switch.
My take is that from the start Nintendo wanted the Switch to be perceived as a gaming device and not a tablet, and so was very strict on what other media apps they allowed on it. But now that the Switch is successful and has established it's place in the market, Nintendo are perhaps more open to apps like Netflix, so the ball is now in their court?
I'm more inclined to believe it's Nintendo that probably have conditions on allowing these streaming companies on their platform, the likes of Netflix will put their app on almost anything to increase their reach and maybe Nintendo feel access to their player base is worth something.
I understand that people love to shit on Reggie and calling him out...this also was my first reaction.
But the NicoNico app in Japan or the Hulu app show that Nintendo is open to VOD applications. If Reggie says its on Netflix as of now ...I can believe that.
Maybe they have to do a bit more on Switch than just to Port the mobile version and weren't willing to foot the bill and/or hope that Nintendo pays for the Switch app.
Seems weird.
But the NicoNico app in Japan or the Hulu app show that Nintendo is open to VOD applications. If Reggie says its on Netflix as of now ...I can believe that.
Maybe they have to do a bit more on Switch than just to Port the mobile version and weren't willing to foot the bill and/or hope that Nintendo pays for the Switch app.
Seems weird.
The way I see it is that Netflix wanted to be on Switch since launch, but Nintendo prioritised games the first year, and didn't want Netflix to be on the Switch. Now that they do want Netflix on there, Netflix put them on low priority. There is a human side to doing business as well.
If Netflix cared about screen quality, there wouldn't be a 3DS app.