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It has been announced that the “Niconico” video streaming service available on Switch will end on March 31, 2027. The service has run for about 10 years since the Switch’s 2017 launch, and there are reportedly no plans to support it on the successor console, the Switch 2. On 5ch’s console/industry (geha) board, comments crossed over multiple threads: the declining trend in Niconico’s premium membership numbers, disappointment from users who valued the ad-free viewing experience, worries about the future of YouTube on Switch, and repeated concern over where the service itself is headed.
《Closing the curtain on roughly 10 years of service since the Switch launched in 2017. It was also announced that there are no plans to support the Switch 2.
《Closing the curtain on roughly 10 years of service since the Switch launched in 2017. It was also announced that there are no plans to support the Switch 2.
《Closing the curtain on roughly 10 years of service since the Switch launched in 2017. It was also announced that there are no plans to support the Switch 2.
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What people said
It's the Switch that's ending, not Niconico.
Weird reposts are trashing the categories, kills any desire to even go there.
no wonder they're reluctant to support it.
the apps have pretty much all died off.
which is probably exactly why it's not coming to the Switch 2, and why it's ending.
the real story here is Niconico itself being in trouble.
though honestly I barely watch Niconico at all anymore anyway.
A year earlier (end of June 2025), membership was 994,000 — meaning it lost roughly 100,000 members in a single year.
Still wild that 900,000 people are paying 800 yen a month for this lol
Probably a lot of people who just forgot to cancel and left it running.
You could watch Netflix for almost the same price.
Didn't they raise the price at some point?
though everyone's gone now.
Now it's a washed-up has-been, unrecognizable from what it used to be.
are they planning to stop letting you watch any video on Switch at all, Switch 2 included?
They've said YouTube is planned for Switch 2 support, and that's where it's stood ever since…
No way
I only used my Switch for Niconico
I still watch it on there
This is so disappointing
Just watch it on your phone.
The whole point of watching on Switch is no ads.
I want to watch on the big TV screen while doing something else on my phone.
the big Nintendo-focused streamers they drove away without lifting a finger
are all thriving on YouTube now lol
they probably want that Niconico-watching time spent playing games instead.
Probably the same reason they're cutting off YouTube too.
Background and Key Points of This Thread
What’s actually ending here isn’t Niconico itself, but the viewing feature within the Switch app. The service launched alongside the Switch in 2017 and is closing the curtain after roughly a decade. It was also revealed that there are no plans to bring it to the Switch 2, and many posters in the thread pointed out Nintendo’s apparent reluctance to support video streaming on its new hardware. Niconico’s own membership trends also came up for discussion, with figures cited showing premium membership at 893,000 as of the end of June 2026 — down about 100,000 from 994,000 a year earlier, and the first time the count has dropped below 900,000. What stands out about this thread is how the timing of the membership decline and the end of Switch support became intertwined, with posters voicing concern both over Niconico’s own future and over the Switch’s fading momentum.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [geha]) thread 「[Sad News] “Niconico” Service for Nintendo Switch to End on March 31, 2027」.
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