8 Major Worries For The Nintendo Switch In 2018
7. Streaming Apps Are A No-Show
"We are still exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don't have definitive plans to share at this time."
That's the response given out by Netflix's customer service Twitter account earlier this year when asked when the popular streaming service would be headed to Switch, but why?
Why is this a question that needs to be asked at all?
In this day and age, services such as Netflix, YouTube and Twitch shouldn't be openly discussed as possibilities, but eventualities. Nintendo must be aware of the demand for such apps - especially for a console that can be taken anywhere - and not in this reality can their absence be blamed on a lack of hardware power.
Smartphones and even the vastly inferior hardware of Nintendo's own 3DS allow users to consume streamed content without hassle, so what gives?
Perhaps the problem stems from - as is apparently the case with Monster Hunter: World - how the Switch's screen transition technology works, or maybe Nintendo, for whatever reason, is being extremely selective of what multimedia apps appear on its young platform.
Whatever the culprit, it's hardly asking the Earth for a definitive answer now, is it?