Nintendo's site suggests YouTube app possibly coming to Switch November 8th

[Mandalore76]

Masked_Muchaco said:

Jumpin said:

I'd say that because it's 2018 this sort of stuff isn't really useful and is a little redundant unless you want to use your Switch as a portable media device (if for some reason you don't have a phone). For at least a half a decade now TVs have come with that stuff (youtube, netflix, etc...)  built in.

Back on the Wii and the early days of the Wii U this stuff was far more relevant.

I like to watch videos on my 40-inch TV, which does have a YouTube app, but I prefer to launch it through my PS3 because I find the PS3 controller much better to navigate the app than the crappy controller that came with the TV.

I'm the complete opposite.  I used to launch YouTube exclusively through my Wii U, but now that I have a TV with YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix (among other apps) built in, I just go through the TV now.  The touchscreen of the Gamepad is convenient, but I don't have any problem navigating YouTube with my TV remote.