Revamped NJPW World coming this autumn

39 comments

1. Fucking yes. (Except the price increase, though I’m in Japan so the cost is actually great for me, I get CMLL and AEW with it.)

2. Not looking forward to a price increase. But I hope the app is improved significantly.

3. Hopefully this finally means the video won’t hitch and reload every 10 seconds if you skip around too much.

4. Im fucking jumping for joy.

   NOT ONE UPDATE SINCE INCEPTION

   THIS IS LIKE IF GABE FINALLY UPDATED TF2

   MY GOD

5. Fingers crossed that iOS support also includes Apple TV. Will be over the moon if so. If not I’m sure casting to Apple TV from iOS will work at least (horrible that it doesn’t currently).

6. New app and better video quality sounds great.

   As of right now, 1298 yen translates to 8.86 USD, so barring any major economic events over the next few months, that’s not too bad of a compromise.

7. Took them 5 years

8. Will it support tizen os ??

9. If they fix the player so it stops crashing, I’ll take it.

10. Price increase is somewhat acceptable. It’s actually mostly in line with inflation, which you can confirm by checking how much $10 in 2014 is worth now in 2023 (~$13)

    As far as total bang for buck is concerned, the top services are Wrestle Universe and FITE+ (especially the latter if it streams AJPW going forward). But it’s understandable that these services are priced lower because they’re still in their growth/loss-leading phase.

11. The dedicated Roku app is exciting since that’s what I normally use to watch anyway (using tv cast).

12. >Roku app

    Fuckin’ *fiiiinally*

13. Finally!! ¥1,298 is like $9 USD. Still a great deal for the content you get.

14. IMPROVED SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY LET’S GO

15. Will the videos be in high definition!?

16. Happy to pay extra anyway, Covid did a beating on New Japan. The extra bitrate is a bonus.

17. New Fire TV app. Yesssss.

18. Price increase?! Take my fuckin money!

19. Finally, the streets needed this cuz no way in hell should the leading company in Japan have the worst streaming service out of everyone else.

20. Hopefully this means you no longer have to have two apps on iOS and a dedicated chromecast google tv to be able to watch on TV now

21. The quality increase to actual 1080p (only took them eight years) is worth it alone, but finally having a dedicated app will be nice. I don’t even care if the new UI sucks, watching in 540p for all these years has been brutal.

22. The wording “sample HD content” that they mention in the website makes a little bit suspicious.

23. OFFLINE PLAY!!

24. As long there’s an app that lets you cast to your TV from your phone like WWE and Fite, I’ll gladly pay an extra couple of quid a month.

25. I was excited till I saw price increase. Lol

26. Finally! Might grab the IOS app if Noah done it ages ago then NJPW should have been on the ball years ago.

27. THANK GOODNESS.

28. Finally I love New Japan but the World site is terrible & is in desperate need of an update. Hopefully will make watching the archives an easier process in the future

29. I wonder if they will ever merge stardom with the new app

30. I hope their “full hd” is actually 1080p.. and not being passed off as 720p as “full hd” cause I’ll be disappointed if that’s the case even though it would still be an improvement of their current.

31. Fucking hell. I’ll take it just for the android app. 1080p? *Orgasm*

32. Finally

33. With an app I’ll sub longer than the G1 and wrestle kingdom.

34. Guys… We’re finally going beyond 720p I’m gonna cry

35. Please TVos too….

36. ROKU AAAAAAAAPP

37. Your welcome New Japan fans. I’ve been talking about this for years. it only took about 20 years for this to happen.

    Stop accepting the world as it is and imagine what it could be instead.

    https://reddit.com/r/njpw/s/lbSQXBrZ0l

38. The current website is archaic and painfully bad. These overhauls are long overdue. They should’ve had iOS and Android apps ready on day 1.

39. Question, as a Canadian is this gonna actually be available or more wwe network style bullshit (still can’t get that here without paying for cable or an additional VPN cost)