Japanese users also have Niconico, a video hosting service in the country, exclusively for their region. Be aware that any change to these settings can take up to eight hours to take. Since Nintendo put out the Switch on sale last March, the platform only has Hulu as the sole streaming service for U.S. Step 3: If you’re streaming on any option other than High, you won’t be getting HD or 4K UHD quality from Netflix. The incorrect original tweet has been removed," Netflix's support handle on Twitter posted on Tuesday, Jan. "Correction: We are still exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don't have definitive plans to share at this time. As for the tweet they deleted earlier, has offered a revised answer. "We are still exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don't have definitive plans to share at this time," a Netflix representative said. The company does hint that they have reached out to Nintendo, or perhaps the other way around, but with no newsworthy results for now. Something must have changed along, since the tweet has since been deleted, according to Polygon. Initially, the streaming platform was reluctant, with the Twitter account replying that "There are currently no plans for Netflix on Nintendo Switch." With the release of Hulu for the Switch, Nintendo fans were knocking on the door of Netflix to see if they have plans of their own for the holidays.
Netflix fans have been waiting for a Nintendo Switch version of the streaming app for sometime now. 9 for the Switch, roughly eight months after the console first launched, according to Gamespot. Hulu released their app late last year on Nov. The new Hulu app that now runs on the console might have given Netflix some encouragement. There's a chance for the hybrid console to do more, though, especially when Netflix hinted that their app on the switch is still a possibility. The Nintendo Switch, right from the start, has always been a platform dedicated to games.