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After reading several news sources recently about a Netflix survey showing up on the Wii, and seeing it for our own eyes. There has been a lot if speculation that Netflix was eyeing the Wii as another source of revenue, so we put a call into Netflix headquarters and waited for an answer.

Steve Swasey, Vice President of Corporate Communications for Netflix called me this morning. "There is nothing to the speculation of Netflix coming to the Nintendo Wii or any other console. We have a great deal with Microsoft on the Xbox 360. We have had over a million members use the service on the 360 and over a billion and a half minutes of movies watched" He continued by mentioning  that the survey, was just that, a survey. "We survey our ten million members all the time, whether it be price points, content, delivery or platform. There should not be anything read into the survey on the Wii."

When asked whether Netflix was looking to move to other consoles in the future, he replied "In the future Netflix desires to be on whatever screen you watch movies on.  For now, the game console is Xbox360."

http://www.gamersdailynews.com/story-9782-Netflix-Will-Not-Come-to-the-Nintendo-Wii.html



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its only possible on the 360 and ps3, its never coming on the wii....



Ehhhh. What was posted mainly online was a survey to have Netflix on Wii/PS3.

No body really believed it was real. Plus people always talk out of their ass and will claim they will not do something, when in fact they will be doing it in the future. It is best to wait as nothing really confirms this statement to be 100% solid. Although this is a little more solid than the Survey post. Let us wait and see, but either way I am happy cause I like to buy most of my movies or rent a local video store (Got to support local business).

Gamefly on the other hand is the SHIT!



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Sorry I don't know much about this, but what did people do before this was released on 360?



Aj_habfan said:
Sorry I don't know much about this, but what did people do before this was released on 360?

 

Used WatchInstantly on their computer (and you can only use IE for this).



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axumblade said:
As I said in the other forum. Either way works. It would be cool if the PS3 got it but it doesn't really need it because there is the PSN video store already.

 

True, it would be cool to see Netflix on Wii , For the ps3 however like you said it already have a store, and the fact that you can torrent movies straight to the PS3 for free.



You can use your Mac and I watch via firefox.  You don't have to use IE, although maybe on a windows machine you might.



faquinteros said:

You can use your Mac and I watch via firefox.  You don't have to use IE, although maybe on a windows machine you might.

No you don't because I use firefox as well running XP MCE 2005.

 



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The fact that you can stream it only on Internet Explorer and no other browser should be a hint that the service stays with MSFT.



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dolemit3 said:
The fact that you can stream it only on Internet Explorer and no other browser should be a hint that the service stays with MSFT.

But it isn't a fact.  Netflix streaming works fine with Firefox.