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Netflix Ground Pounds its Way onto the Wii
Alex Tretrop
Netflix is a service that debuted on consoles with a system update for Microsoft's Xbox 360 earlier last year. It's excellent for streaming movies in great quality and being very easy to navigate and use if you have a subscrition to their service. Sony announced, a while back, that the PS3 would receive the service but in a different form, with users having to use free disk that would give you access to the service when put it into the disk drive.
Now it seems that Nintendo is following suit, with today's findings that confirmin that the online streaming service would also be coming to the Wii "in the spring." And with the 360 having exclusive rights to having the service embedded in its firmware, the Wii will be getting it the same way as the PS3, with you having to insert disk whenever you want to use Netflix. Presumably it won't stream in HD because of the Wii's 480p limitations, and it's kind of weird that you still can't watch any form of DVD on the Wii.
