Technology
Netflix stops working on Nintendo Wii starting in January 2019
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Nintendo’s Wii console is going to drop support for
Netflix in January. -
With over 100 million sold, the Nintendo Wii is one of
the most popular game consoles ever released. -
The end of Netflix functionality on the Wii coincides
with a larger sunsetting of Wii online services in January
2019.
Sorry, Nintendo Wii users: the “Wii Sports” console is losing
Netflix in January 2019.
More specifically, as of January 30, all online
services for the Nintendo Wii will be sunset. No more Wii Shop
Channel and Virtual Console for buying games, and no more video
streaming services — including Netflix.
The service lasted just over eight years on the Nintendo Wii,
having first arrived in 2010. It quickly became a hit on the Wii
— a measure of the console’s massive popularity at exactly the
time when services like Netflix were evolving into video
streaming giants.
With over 100 million Nintendo Wii consoles sold as of 2016, the
Wii is Nintendo’s best-selling home game console of all time.
It’s only bested by the Game Boy and Nintendo DS — handheld
consoles that cost less than the Wii.
For now, Netflix will continue functioning on the Nintendo Wii.
But don’t worry too much about its impending closure. In 2018,
Netflix runs on nearly anything — from your smartphone to your TV
to Google’s very inexpensive Chromecast dongle.
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