While it’s not terribly surprising to hear, the recent update to the Xbox 360 dashboard (released today) contains a little blurb about how Netflix has an “exclusive” partnership with Microsoft, sorry PS3 and Wii fans.

Netflix Partnership
This exclusive partnership offers you the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the television via Xbox 360. Xbox 360 will be the only game console to offer this movie-watching experience, available to Xbox LIVE Gold members who are also Netflix unlimited plan subscribers**, at no additional cost.

Of course the time was right for Microsoft to seal this deal now before things developed too far with other console manufacturers otherwise things would have been a lot more expensive I’m sure.  As long as it stayed on the Xbox it was fine with me, additional consoles streaming directly might have encouraged Netflix to press for some more direct download content but hey, what can you do.