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title: "Hulu service ends early"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-wii-u/hulu-service-endsearly/"
description: "The Hulu app on the Wii U has met a premature end in Japan. The service was scheduled to be discontinued on 24th July."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2020-05-05 16:24:25"
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markdown url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-wii-u/hulu-service-endsearly.md"
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Hulu service ends early | Nintendo Wii U News | NintendoReporters

 [![Hulu service ends early](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/hulu-service-ends-early.jpeg "Hulu service ends early")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/hulu-service-ends-early.jpeg)The Hulu app on the Wii U has met a premature end in Japan. The service was scheduled to be discontinued on 24th July.

> Hulu on [\#WiiU](https://twitter.com/hashtag/WiiU?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in Japan met an undignified end yesterday. Service was scheduled to end on 7/24, but a fix for the playback issue that arose on 4/10 didn’t have an ETA. As a result, service ended on 4/30. One-month vouchers were offered in recompense. [pic.twitter.com/UlAFUnmBgY](https://t.co/UlAFUnmBgY)
>
> — Cheesemeister (@Cheesemeister3k) [April 30, 2020](https://twitter.com/Cheesemeister3k/status/1255933555848302592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

## [](#compensation)Compensation

However, the team came up against a playback issue on 10th April, which they didn’t have an estimated time for a fix. As a result they decided to end the service early.

To compensate for this the Hulu team gave subscribers a one-month free Hulu voucher to use.

Do you want apps like these for the Nintendo Switch at all? Because we still have no Netflix and Hulu is limited by region.

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