The Wii and Wii U offered this capability for free, but with remarkably weaker
services than other consoles.
Not exact matches
Switch owners have been begging for media apps like Hulu and Netflix to come to the platform ever since the
console launched, but
other than Niconico coming to the Switch in Japan, Western users have been left in the dark as to when any streaming
services become available on the hybrid
console.
All
consoles are good - to - go out of the box (apart from the TV to display it on), although some have «optional» accessories and
services that are more optional
than others.
Rather
than starting the install base at zero, an evolutionary
console can help grow the overall
console install base which means that publishers have an even higher potential audience on
consoles and
other games models such as Games as a
Service and Free to Play can work on
console just as well as PC or Mobile.