Game consoles built streaming — until it outgrew them

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter connected the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated conscionable for The Verge subscribers erstwhile a week.

It's been a unsmooth mates of days for gamers who besides emotion to binge their favourite TV shows with their consoles: At the opening of the week, Netflix began informing PlayStation 3 owners with an onscreen connection that it would discontinue enactment for its PS3 app aft March 2nd. And today, Hulu is pulling the plug connected its app for Nintendo's archetypal Switch.

Netflix's determination to discontinue its PS3 app, which was archetypal spotted by aggregate Reddit users, is peculiarly noteworthy: …

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