Hulu Plus now Available on Nintendo 3DS

By Jorge Ba-oh 17.10.2013 7

Hulu Plus now Available on Nintendo 3DS on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Nintendo of America have confirmed today that content provider Hulu Plus is available on the 3DS.

Fans in North America can download the app on the 3DS/2DS and stream various TV shows, movies, clips and kids programming. New Hulu members can enjoy a week's trial, whilst existing subscribers can simply access their accounts on the 3DS.

Will you stream movies and TV via Hulu Plus on the 3DS?

Comment on this article

You can comment as a guest or join the Cubed3 community below: Sign Up for Free Account Login

Preview PostPreview Post Your Name:
Validate your comment
  Enter the letters in the image to validate your comment.
Submit Post

Comments

Canyarion is offline. Canyarion 17.10.2013#1

Will there be 3D content??

 
Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 17.10.2013#2

Finally! This was first announced in fall of 2011!


Canyarion said:
Will there be 3D content??

Unlikely since there aren't any major shows aren't filmed in 3D (especially shows that Hulu has rights to)

Netflix has 3D content and streams 3D to the PS3 and certain TVs. The 3DS definitely deserves an update to be able to stream 3D movies.


 
Darkflane (guest) 17.10.2013#3

Still waiting for Netflick in europe on the 3DS Smilie

Netflicks a great value service, but its strange to be on the Wii but not 3DS.

As for 3D streams -  Its been a huge oversight of Nintendo not to support YouTube on the 3DS, as theres a lot of 3D content on it, and it supports many delivery methods.
Uploading from the 3DS to Youtube would have been a win-win for both Google and Nintendo.

Flynnie is offline. Flynnie 17.10.2013#4

Would be good to have BBC iPlayer/4oD/ITV Player/LOVEFiLM on the 3DS. Would be nice to have the download feature rather than streaming though....

 
J4K is offline. J4K 17.10.2013#5

Netflicks a great value service, but its strange to be on the Wii but not 3DS.

Netflix is on the 3DS? Just looked it up on my 3DS. It's there.

To be honest, with the advent of high resolution smartphones and seemingly ubiquitious laptops and tablets, it's almost pointless now to have these services on 3DS. But I suppose it's good to have the option.

A few years ago, having online video streaming on a Nintendo DS would have been a big deal. Now, I can't say I'd ever load up an online movie on my handheld console when I'd without doubt have my smartphone with me - assuming I'm not trying to save the smartphone's battery.

The only way Nintendo can really make a special pitch for folks to actually use this kinda stuff is if they really work the 3D angle. And they've failed to do that so far. Because of this, it feels like Nintendo is just playing catch-up, as in "yeah, after x amount of years, we're finally offering what everyone else already offers" verses providing anything intereting or new.

( Edited 17.10.2013 23:56 by Jacob4000 )

 
Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 18.10.2013#6

Jacob4000 said:
Netflicks a great value service, but its strange to be on the Wii but not 3DS.
Netflix is on the 3DS? Just looked it up on my 3DS. It's there.
Aren't you in North America? He's looking for it in Europe.

Jacob4000 said:
To be honest, with the advent of high resolution smartphones and seemingly ubiquitious laptops and tablets, it's almost pointless now to have these services on 3DS.
But a huge audience of the 3DS (and other game systems) is kids who don't have smart phones.

Jacob4000 said:
The only way Nintendo can really make a special pitch for folks to actually use this kinda stuff is if they really work the 3D angle. And they've failed to do that so far.
I don't think there's really much Nintendo can do about it. Netflix and Hulu develop their own apps, Nintendo doesn't. Also, for 3D Hulu just doesn't have 3D content and for Netflix to be supported on the 3DS it would require Netflix to re-encode their videos for it. It's not a big issue, as Netflix already encodes their videos in a ridiculous number of ways, but Netflix would still have to do it again.

Jacob4000 said:
Because of this, it feels like Nintendo is just playing catch-up, as in "yeah, after x amount of years, we're finally offering what everyone else already offers" verses providing anything intereting or new.
It's not really Nintendo's fault here. Hulu took forever to release something that was supposed to come out in 2011.

 
darkflame (guest) 19.10.2013#7

Idealy, Id like my 3DS to emulate all the functions my smartphone can, as it has more horsepower and is much better for gaming.
Then I'd just use an old Nokia (which typically have 1-2 weeks battery life) for the actual phone Smilie

Subscribe to this topic Subscribe to this topic

If you are a registered member and logged in, you can also subscribe to topics by email.
Sign up today for blogs, games collections, reader reviews and much more
Site Feed
Who's Online?
Sandy Wilson

There are 1 members online at the moment.