Hulu dev explains why the app wasn't available on Switch at launch

Did you know that Factor 5's president is also the VP of tech at Hulu? It's true, as Julian Eggebrecht confirmed the info on a recent IGN podcast. Mr. Eggebrecht followed up that tidbit of info with an explanation as to why Hulu didn't hit the Switch at launch.

“Why not at launch? That was a political decision by Nintendo to a certain degree, but also a technical one because they really wanted to focus on the game-side of things on the one hand, and secondly really were only able to provide the basic technical functionality that you needed to make the greatest games on the new console. So one of the things which was missing until recently was one tiny little bit of encryption that most of the professional video services unfortunately need, and once that was unblocked for us, it was not a problem to get the whole thing going. We had the streaming actually and most of the tech we had done quite awhile ago.”