Netflix, Nintendo join FedEx, UPS in Christmas failures
FedEx (FDX) and UPS (UPS) weren’t the only companies having delivery problems this Christmas. Netflix and Nintendo each suffered high-profile service outages this week that prevented them from delivering to consumers. Nintendo announced Friday that it is pushing back the Western release of two Pokemon-related apps for its 3DS video game device from its eShop because of “a large volume of traffic” to its network. The “Pokemon Bank” and “Poke Transporter” apps were supposed to be available on Friday. Nintendo (NTDOY) also decided to take down its eShop for 12 hours Friday and Saturday to make improvements, starting at 4 p.m. ET. For the second Christmas in a row, Netflix (NFLX) suffered a service outage that prevented it from streaming video to customers. The latest outage affected customers in the U.S., Canada and Latin America for about an hour Thursday night, the Next Web reported. A year ago, Netflix suffered…