Nintendo terminates support for the Netflix app on the Wii U and 3DS. The app will be closed to existing users on June 30, and if you have never downloaded it, it will no longer be available. However, you can download the app again if you have downloaded it in the past.
“As of December 31, 2020, the Netflix app is no longer available for new users to download from Nintendo eShop on the Wii U console or Nintendo 3DS family,” Nintendo said in a statement about the offerings for the Wii You and 3DS. Netflix app. “During this time it will be possible for existing users to download these applications again. Service for existing users will continue until June 30, 2021. Many thanks to everyone who has enjoyed Netflix on these platforms over the years. ”
Nintendo discontinued the 3DS in September and quickly switched from the Wii U in favor of the Nintendo Switch, so it’s not so surprising that the company is shutting down the Netflix app on the older platforms. But Netflix is still not on the switch, despite former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé, who said days after the launch of the Switch in March 2017 that the company was working with companies such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon talked about their services to the console.
Hulu was launched in November 2017, but there is still no Netflix app.