{"id":126924,"date":"2022-08-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-135366"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:00:00","slug":"youtube-and-crunchyroll-on-wii-u-wont-be-available-for-much-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/02\/youtube-and-crunchyroll-on-wii-u-wont-be-available-for-much-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube And Crunchyroll On Wii U Won&#8217;t Be Available For Much Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea94eb1a5bf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea94eb1a5bf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Black Wii U With Disc And Controller\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea94eb1a5bf\/black-wii-u-with-disc-and-controller.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/4dea94eb1a5bf\/black-wii-u-with-disc-and-controller.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Black Wii U With Disc And Controller\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo Life \/ Damien McFerran<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s another nail in the coffin for the Wii U. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/rything.com\/youtube-crunchyroll-apps-ending-service-on-wii-u\/\">Nintendo Everything<\/a> reports that two video apps for the console \u2014 YouTube and Crunchyroll \u2014 will be ending support later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Anime subscription platform Crunchyroll will be discontinued on the Wii U from 29th August \u2014 with emails being sent out about the end of the service last week. YouTube will last a little bit longer, with the app ending support in October, as mentioned in a statement on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/3013450?hl=en\">Google Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might be thinking &#8220;who watches YouTube and Crunchyroll on the Wii U in 2022?&#8221;, but the Wii U app for Crunchyroll was known to be ad-free for a time.<\/p>\n<p>Both YouTube and Crunchyroll are available on the Switch, at least! But the end for the Wii U is really coming up very quickly now, and announcements like this \u2014 while not surprising \u2014 are at least hammering that home. The Wii U and 3DS eShops will be closing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/07\/3ds-and-wii-u-eshops-approach-endgame-as-nintendo-provides-closure-date\">28th March 2023<\/a>, and you already can&#8217;t add funds to your account with a credit card. Time to start preparing that goodbye, then.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you use either of these apps on your Wii U? Or do you still use them today? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Life \/ Damien McFerran It&#8217;s another nail in the coffin for the Wii U. Nintendo Everything reports that two video apps for the console \u2014 YouTube and Crunchyroll \u2014 will be ending support later this year. Anime subscription platform Crunchyroll will be discontinued on the Wii U from 29th August \u2014 with emails [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}