Nintendo to stop streaming video for Wii in January 2019
Netflix, the US-based media services giant went on to email its users that Nintendo would be suspending Netflix and other streaming video services on Wii, post 31st January 2019.
The Nintendo Wii is a home video game console that was launched in November 2006.
According to the Netflix notification, Nintendo would suspend all streaming services, which means that Amazon Prime and Hulu too would no longer be available in Wii.
"It makes a bit of sense, given the age of the device -- the Wii was sold between 2005 and 2011, before streaming video really took off with consumers, and before services like Hulu and Amazon Prime were launched," The Verge reported on Sunday.
The announcement comes in conjunction with Nintendo's announcement that it would be closing down the Wii Shop Channel -- its portal to download virtual console games on January 30, 2019.
As a seventh-generation console, Nintendo Wii competed with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
This isn't exactly shocking. The Wii is 12 years old, and Nintendo started phasing out channels in 2013, according to Engadget.
(With IANS inputs)
