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Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by iamatworknow on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:07PM (#13765629)
Fair point. But is that necessary at launch, or can it be a few weeks or months down the road? I'm guessing it will be.
Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by cwyers on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:31PM (#13765974)
I think the larger point is, anyone else would have had it at launch, because it would have been both a no-brainer and no big deal. Netflix is generally pretty good about supporting ports of their client to anything that can run it. There's also no Virtual Console, the eShop isn't available for review yet... and Nintendo has a terrible track record on online services. The Wii U was even further behind on such matters than it was on graphics, compared to the Xbox One and PS4. You can argue that Nintendo shouldn't compete on graphics. But simple stuff like "downloadable games I buy should be linked to my account, not my console" are things they should be doing and have a really bad track record with. So I think Nintendo doesn't deserve a lot of the benefit of the doubt that they will get things like Netflix up-and-running on the Switch.
Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by throwaway91111 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:38PM (#13767442)
If Nintendo hadn't shipped a shitty Netflix app and instead got the console to work better it would have been worth buying.
Re:Nintendo Switch review: pure potential by cwyers on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:34AM (#13771700)
I mean, they did neither. And Netflix would have done a lot of "free" work to put their app on the Switch.