Nintendo 3DS gets free Netflix update in tomorrow's eShop update

This will do little to ease the blow of the recent doubling of the streaming + 1 DVD plan.

Not that it affects me as a streaming only person, but still.

@R Planteer

Yeah, I just dropped my Blu-ray by mail subscription. There are four Redboxes within two minutes of my house, so I'll go rent me a movie for $1.50. I don't rent as much (I tend to buy a lot of Blu-rays).

This announcement is what I've been waiting for. Finally I can take Netflix with me anywhere!

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@R Planteer

bro when i got that email i had to read it TWICE to make sure i was correct. 5 dollars may not seem like alot but this shows that no price is ever really permanent. As a person who had Streaming + 1 DVD, i'm gonna have to do the Streaming only for now.

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I read that there will be 3D movies available too shortly, on Netflix I think, but the article was unclear. This article doesn't even mention 3D movies at all though. :|

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Hmmm... This is tempting me to switch to streaming-only rather than dumping my Netflix subscription.

That price change was kind of insulting, I think. Unless it was made to keep the company afloat, which I very much doubt.

@Gooblechev
They probably want to encourage more people to do streaming only.

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@Gooblechev That's probably exactly what it was. There's no way $2 can keep paying for all of those content licenses. Every single thing Netflix has available for streaming comes with a licensing cost. I doubt that was ever going to be a sustainable business model and their big mistake was making it so cheap in the first place.

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@KaBob799

This was my assumption as well. They must see more profit from streaming than from mailing discs.

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@Gooblechev

I may not be necessary to "keep them afloat," but costs were certainly rising - both the cost of postage and the bandwidth usage had increased significantly since they last changed prices.

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@Gooblechev well if they are going to up their rates like that then they need to make sure they make their streaming library compatible with what you could get on a dvd and also not to mention how long it takes new releases to come out on netflix streaming.

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I'll try it out, don't see myself using it often though.

Yay! But I'm still kinda mad about the prices going up.

I'm bit put off that prices for EVERYTHING have risen this month.

Way to promote consumer confidence!

@Theneverendingsoda

People watch whole movies on their phones and mp3 players now.

Bummer. Just cancelled Netflix yesterday. There is no reasonable explanation for a 60% price increase. It should have been coming sooner, in smaller amounts, or later in the same format.

@plebeianprint No reasonable explanation you want to hear, anyway.

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Funny you say Agent Cooper. I am actually been watching Twin Peaks and playing Deadly Premonition.

Both are weird, but I think I like.

How long of a movie can the 3DS stream before the battery dies?

@superfrick : A retrofit of the 3DS is in order. Hopefully it will be announced at TGS.

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@superfrick
Pretty much any movie, unless it's like one of the Lord of the Rings extended editions or something. And do you really want to watch that kind of movie on a 3DS screen? Makes more sense, if anything, for TV shows imo...

I guess watching movies on 3DS makes very slightly more sense than watching them on a phone - only because if your phone battery dies before you get to your destination, that's kind of more important...

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@xxxsam

I would watch LOTR on the 3DS... if it were in 3D! :D

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Holy crap this was random. Just the day or so ago it was "Sometime this summer..." when they announced Japan's video.

:D best news in awhile.
Too bad it's one movie and that's it....

Mighty Morphing Power Rangers classics on Netflix Instant Stream + Netflix on the 3DS is just to good.

@KiDPANDA YES YES YES TO ALL OF THIS!

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I'll check this out tomorrow, but I'll probably cancel my netflix account after that. The lack of streaming content was okay when I could get a dvd when I needed it, but things have just been getting worse. They've been making deals so they can stream back-catalogs, but pushing dvd releases out a month after they should be. It ends up being a lot of content, but not the stuff I necessarily want to watch. And not worth $16 A month.

At this point redbox is probably the best option.

@CaramelZappa
Sorry for the triple post guys. My phone's was freaking out. This is why the comment section needs a delete button.

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I'll check this out tomorrow, but I'll probably cancel my netflix account after that. The lack of streaming content was okay when I could get a dvd when I needed it, but things have just been getting worse. They've been making deals so they can stream back-catalogs, but pushing dvd releases out a month after they should be. It ends up being a lot of content, but not the stuff I necessarily want to watch. And not worth $16 A month.

At this point redbox is probably the best option.

Is this coming out in Canada as well? Netflix doesn't exactly have the best collection up here but even so... If it IS coming to Canada i will seriously have to consider a 3DS purchase in the near future.

@liquidsoap89 i am pretty sure canadians will get the software too since we do get the streaming service in canada...wed just be limited to the movie offerings in canada

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Just like someone else said, Netflix is trying to faze out dvd rentals and move to a streaming only service. The price hike is probably to encourage people to drop the dvd service and move to the streaming only service. Thats my guess at least.

We switched to the streaming only pack several months ago. We had 2 dvds out for at least 6 months and hadnt watched them and the movies that came before those we had for a long time as well.

If we want to watch anything we either stream it or download it in this house.

I heard that the reason why they decided to divide streaming and dvd was because in a couple of years from now keeping that contract to stream you movie or show will cost a hell of a lot more.

Can I put a Netflix movie on 3DS?

CAN I PUT 4 NETFLIX MOVIES ON 3DS???

@SoldierShredder

soldiershredder uses serious sam joke!

It's not very effective!

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This is COOL (amazing, even) but doesn't this mean we always need to be near an wifi location? How great would it be to just go into Netflix, download a movie, and then take with you on the go. I'm not acquainted with Netflix and it's services, so I don't know if they already do this.

I liked netflix better when it was DVDs only and you could get 2 out at a time for $8. I was able to get new releases easily and I could get any movie from their library.

such a shame. it went up a dollar every year for the last 4 or 5 years. at this price I may as well just stream new movies from PSN or VUDU when they are on sale.

Pffft Netflix?

We get free Oscar's Oasis!!!...

Admitedly something i've never heard of before today, but its a damn good 7 minute watch without subscription fee's.

So yeah... thats the end of my douchebaggery "U.K. ftw!" rant. Suck it.

So I can get it on the 3DS that I don't have but not the Asus eee Pad Transformer that I do... RAGE FACE!!!!

Wow, so you can kill all the time you've been spending not playing games by watching movies you can see on any other device on the planet.

@HudsonX1

Some people don't haul their tablet/laptop to work everyday and can't afford to drain battery on their smartphone because it's reserved for.... you know productivity type tasks.

Where I work confidentiality agreements keep us from bringing in laptops/tablets as a matter of fact.

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@Theneverendingsoda

Makes time pass faster at work for me (watching Netflix on WP7 device)

Schwing, get to watch cartoons and kung-fu on my lunch breaks now when the 3DS games get dull.

I switched to that 7.99 unlimited streaming package the day it became available way back, don't wanna deal with the postal service.

@Anticrawl

This is obviously the first time ever I've seen a comment of yours, so... here's a question everyone's probably asked a thousand times before.

Is your icon from ReBoot?

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@JB2X

Lol I've been commenting since the site opened but yeah it's from ReBoot. It wasn't always a ReBoot icon obviously.

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@Theneverendingsoda

Oh yeah, we are de-volving alright. We have *always* been able to watch movies on demand on portable devices no matter where we go, right? We are SOOO entering the stone age...

Get a clue dude. Either you are a delusional, entitled feeling person or you are not old enough to remember VHS tapes.

Great. We'll never have Netflix over here. I'd be surprised if New Zealand and Australia get ANY video service. I know New Zealand has one for the PS3. A very crappy one that is free and much better quality on my computer. We may be classed as Europe for region but it still doesn't make us even.

I should really get on board with my parents' plan. They have DVD + Streaming but only dad uses streaming, and then very rarely. I never bothered to get Netflix on Wii, but i just might for 3DS...

@Mr Khan

definitely the way to go. My friend and his brother use the same account for streaming and they live in different states

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I'm hoping this means that I can finally watch 3d movies on something I own. Now that would be AWESOME!

@beez1717
3D PORN HERE I COME!

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Nintendo 3DS gets free Netflix update in tomorrow's eShop update

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