Topic: Where is Netflix?

I have been asking myself, "why isn't Netflix on switch after all these years?" And to be honest I couldn't tell you, but I do think that the majority of switch owners and the Nintendo company would definitely benefit and get more user if Netflix was added to the available apps. So I as an adamant Nintendo gamer and switch owner PLEASE GIVE US NETFLIX.

Personally, I gave up waiting for it. Netflix was a standard on Wii U and 3DS, and I used them there for many years, so I do find it surprising it's not on Switch. Especially with other streaming apps like Hulu, YouTube, and Crunchyroll being on Switch. Ended up just getting a Roku just to have streaming on my TV, my bedroom TV isn't a smart TV.

Though, I do use YouTube on Switch. Mostly for gaming related YouTube videos and live streams, or digital movies I have on my Movies Anywhere account (I have YouTube linked to it, I usually get digital movies with their DVD/Blu-Ray copy).

I watched Netflix on Wii for ages. Now I rely on roku. Though in hotels I watch YouTube on Switch because it's all I have. It would definitely be handy to have Netflix on Switch, but I've also given up waiting.

I guess one issue is... why just Netflix? It used to be almost the only thing, but now there are like 20 popular streaming services and 100 more medium ones. I can understand Nintendo not wanting to deal with all that.

With Smart tvs pretty much standard now it's kinda of pointless to have apps like Netflix on a game console. If you want Netflix on the go well, that's what phone have become now.

@Tasuki phones have smallllll screens. Switch is nice on the go because it's bigger.

@FishyS : And phones have craptastic battery life too. It's all well and good to sell phones as an "all in one" device until your music player + video player + GPS + gaming device is bled dry.

And I'd rather do all of those things on devices that won't be interrupted constantly with notifications and phone calls. Perhaps I'm a little old-fashioned in that I mostly use separate devices for most of those functions.

And on topic, that would be a question for Netflix and the plethora of other streaming devices. I very much doubt that there's anything on Nintendo's end hindering it. It's almost shocking that there aren't any major streaming apps on Switch given its market dominance.

Watch films on a tiny screen? It's okay on my tablet, but not something as small as the Switch

@Rambler It's a billion times better than on a phone. If I'm stuck in a hotel room I'll take what I can get and Switch it is... at least for YouTube or Crunchyroll.

@FishyS
Oh very much so. For me, I've tried watching stuff on a screen that size, and it's just too small. 10" seems to work for me (plus then I have my kindle files, magazine subs, chess/backgammon/go, etc)

I really just want Discord and Spotify. I’m thinking since the switch patent a few months ago showed off a clam shell two screen device, that’ll there will be more of these apps on switch 2.

Ask Nintendo to add Netflix on the Nintendo Switch, or ask Netflix to.

@LinkxPeach You do understand that just hosting a NetFlix app cost money $$$. NetFlix isn't about to just give a app out for free they will want something from Nintendo to use their App or Creating a App will cost Nintendo money to use it. It's not a free app if it comes from Netflix they will want some compensation for making a Nintendo app.

@LinkxPeach Yo A Link Between Streams! I've pretty much given up hope of a Switch Netflix app lol. 🤣

That’s okay. I okay with Nintendo adding the Netflix App on the Nintendo Switch.

I’m not sure if Nintendo will make a new Zelda game on the Nintendo Switch after LoZ: Tears of the Kingdom.

@LinkxPeach I’m hoping for a new 2d Zelda before the switch is done its run

@LinkxPeach That’s okay. I okay with Nintendo adding the Netflix App on the Nintendo Switch.
It doesn't provide revenue source for Nintendo so why would they do.

Neither does YouTube