The Nintendo Switch 2 Should Get Its Most Important App Soon

The Nintendo Switch 2 is out and has bought thousands and thousands of copies already. Its recreation roster is usually reprised hits, with only some really new entries (Mario Kart World), however homeowners additionally need the hand-held to have the ability to do extra than simply play video games.

Because it stands, there is no such thing as a YouTube app on the Nintendo Switch 2, mirroring the difficulty that the Switch 1 had for a protracted whereas. The authentic Switch was launched on March 3, 2017 and it didn’t get the much-requested YouTube app till November 8, 2018, over a 12 months later.

Nintendo and Google are apparently each attempting to keep away from that sort of prolonged wait this time round. The YouTube crew app responded to a fan asking in regards to the subject, and received a response:

I’m unsure a listing of different gadgets that play YouTube is useful right here. The timeline right here is “quickly,” which I take to imply lower than a 12 months like we noticed with the Switch 1. I’m amazed that Nintendo has been making this console for most likely half a decade and as soon as once more it launched with out key devoted video apps, YouTube included. I’m not clear on how they’ll get CDPR to tireless work on making Cyberpunk 2077 work effectively on the Switch however they’ll’t work out how one can get YouTube or Hulu on the system for launch. It’s weird.

Proper now you’ll be able to switch the previous YouTube Switch app to the Switch 2 however…it doesn’t work, in order that’s not any form of workaround. That is a type of issues the place I feel we give Nintendo an excessive amount of slack about, the truth that the console can launch with nearly no truly new video games and never even a ton of normal apps that it ought to have for day one. However hey, it’s Nintendo and Nintendo all the time will get passes.

Hopefully we hear extra about this quickly from a supply apart from what a assist account bot, however I’ve to imagine it’s a precedence on not less than Google’s aspect, if not Nintendo’s. There’s no method it will possibly take so long as it did final time, proper? Proper?

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