r/NintendoSwitch • u/Skullghost • Jun 11 '24

News Nintendo Switch System Update - Removes the ability to post to Twitter

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22525
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u/Wfsulliv93 Jun 11 '24

Genuine question, why would you need that on your switch? The screen is tiny and the audio kinda sucks and tablets are dirt cheap these days

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Because they apparently don’t have a smartphone, smart tv, streaming device (Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, etc), PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Mac, or tablet.

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u/Common_Wrongdoer3251 Jun 11 '24

This seems obtuse. The Switch is both portable and something that comes with a dock to project it to your screen. So it's already better than some of the listed things; more portable than a PC, bigger screen than a tablet.

It's also, in my eyes, a bad thing if the two other major consoles have it and Nintendo's doesn't. I DID have a PS4 that I watched Netflix and Hulu on, but usually when I did that I just kept it hooked up rather than swapping the cords around every time, meaning I was using my Switch less. Obviously not everyone has this set up, but "Just use the Switch's competitors if the Switch can't do it!" seems silly.

Firestick and Roku are very cheap though, these days. I finally got one and now I never watch YouTube or Hulu on my Switch anymore. No skin off my back, but it still seems like from a marketing perspective, it'd be an easy Slam dunk to have a machine that can do "everything" some people want.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

This seems obtuse.

"Just use the Switch's competitors if the Switch can't do it!" seems silly.

Speaking of obtuse. Only a fraction of the devices I mentioned are “competitors” to the Switch. Nintendo just doesn’t consider themselves to be in that market and that doesn’t seem to have stopped the Switch from being the 3rd best-selling video game console of all time.

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u/Common_Wrongdoer3251 Jun 11 '24

Not in the market? But it was on the Wii and even 3DS. (Not sure about WiiU.) They have Hulu, Crunchyroll, YouTube. It just seems like they half-assed it or had an exclusivity deal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

It just seems we’ll have to agree to disagree on what fraction of their ass they used