Twinblade★ 3,891 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 https://www.gamespot.com/articles/netflix-will-offer-video-games-hires-former-ea-and-zynga-exec-report/1100-6493951/ Quote According to a report from Bloomberg, Netflix is looking to get into video games, though plenty of questions remain and nothing is locked down and certain at this stage. The company has hired former Electronic Arts and Zynga executive Mike Verdu to lead its efforts in this area as its vice president of game development, the report said. "The idea is to offer video games on Netflix's streaming platform within the next year," Bloomberg reported, citing a source close to the situation. "The company doesn't currently plan to charge extra for the content," the report said. The report goes on to say that Netflix is looking to expand its gaming team in the coming months, and some game development positions are already listed on Netflix's careers page. This could be huge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. House 3,371 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Wise move. Netflix should get on this before someone else makes a decent streaming service. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cooke 2,026 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) Yeah Bloomberg also said Nintendo was making a switch pro and there were Donald Trump peepee tapes Edited July 15, 2021 by Cooke Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twinblade★ 3,891 Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 21 minutes ago, Cooke said: Yeah Bloomberg also said Nintendo was making a switch pro and there were Donald Trump peeper tapes Netflix hired a EA/Zynga executive and have numerous game related job openings. This seems like a natural evolution for them, imagine watching the latest movie/show release and wanting to take a break, so you simply click on a Game tab and are instantly able to stream Triple A games from your device whether its a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc. They would be unstoppable honestly and im surprised they haven't tried this sooner. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) streaming movies and streaming games are two different animals. Netflix doesn't have the expertise that MS has in this department. Stop kidding yourselves. This will fail. Guaranteed. Edited July 15, 2021 by Spicalicious 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) I may not fail guaranteed but I don't see Netflix becoming a huge competitor. It's smart of them to diversify though. Especially when so many competing streaming services are coming online. But to compete with MS or even Sony I don't know if that's smart. Edited July 15, 2021 by Spicalicious 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Twinblade★ 3,891 Posted July 15, 2021 Author Share Posted July 15, 2021 9 minutes ago, Spicalicious said: streaming movies and streaming games are two different animals. Netflix doesn't have the expertise that MS has in this department. Stop kidding yourselves. This will fail. Guaranteed. Expertise? Xbox Cloud Streaming is a flop so far in case you haven't noticed https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-cloud-gaming-xcloud-review Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) I'm pretty much done with streaming services. If you are a member at ipt you can use iptv.. get all released movies, events ufc and all that crap live tv in every country.. for $10 a month. HD extremely high quality. use vlc to stream Edited July 15, 2021 by Spicalicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Twinblade said: Expertise? Xbox Cloud Streaming is a flop so far in case you haven't noticed https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-cloud-gaming-xcloud-review What expertise does Netflix have? Streaming films? How hard is that? Youtube did it when? The point is MS are experts in client/server infrastructure and if anyone can built it form the ground up it's them. They are very much concentrating on Xbox right now thank god.. Fuck Android devices. Edited July 15, 2021 by Spicalicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 I don't give a rats ass if MS cloud gaming is shit on Android. I hope it stays shit and MS focuses solely on perfecting their platforms first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quad Damage 1,717 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 spicoli shook. game pass is dead 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,227 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Spicalicious said: What expertise does Netflix have? Streaming films? How hard is that? Youtube did it when? The point is MS are experts in client/server infrastructure and if anyone can built it form the ground up it's them. They are very much concentrating on Xbox right now thank god.. Fuck Android devices. And GeForce Now absolutely is heads and shoulders above xCloud, its not even funny. So...........Microsoft's expertise simply isn't worth anything. And when I say that GeForce Now is better, I'm not talking about graphics. They are clearly better with latency. So it would not surprise me if Netflix gets up and running and catches up to where xCloud is at. There's a real danger here, because families are already paying $18 for that Netflix family plan, and wouldn't mind paying a few dollars more to add gaming service on top of that. Hell, they wouldn't need to charge $5.......they already have 200 million subscribers. They probably could have a fourth of a fifth of them sign up for video games, and just charge $2 a month, and they'd probably start securing decent exclusive games. And the Netflix model is based around exclusives that they 100% own forever. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) On 2021-07-15 at 1:31 AM, jehurey said: And GeForce Now absolutely is heads and shoulders above xCloud, its not even funny. So...........Microsoft's expertise simply isn't worth anything. And when I say that GeForce Now is better, I'm not talking about graphics. They are clearly better with latency. So it would not surprise me if Netflix gets up and running and catches up to where xCloud is at. There's a real danger here, because families are already paying $18 for that Netflix family plan, and wouldn't mind paying a few dollars more to add gaming service on top of that. Hell, they wouldn't need to charge $5.......they already have 200 million subscribers. They probably could have a fourth of a fifth of them sign up for video games, and just charge $2 a month, and they'd probably start securing decent exclusive games. And the Netflix model is based around exclusives that they 100% own forever. so what type of controller input would you use to play games on Netflix. Will all the processing be done on their servers and then streamed to the gamer at home? Processing streamed videos and actual games is different. what control scheme will they use if they don't have their own hardware? I doubt it's a simple as netflix setting up streaming games and people can suddenly buy a sony controller and connect it to their tv's and use it for gaming on netflix. So please give me a detailed summary of how Neflix will do this. Will it be kiddy shit games that don't take much power?.. like sidescroller minigames and shit that nintendo fans like you are into? That's no threat to MS then. Edited July 16, 2021 by Spicalicious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DynamiteCop 2,085 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 This'll be some crap to compete with apple arcade and stuff like that. This isn't going to be something trying to go toe-to-toe with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jehurey 3,227 Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 5 hours ago, Spicalicious said: so what type of controller input would you use to play games on Netflix. Will all the processing be done on their servers and then streamed to the gamer at home? Processing streamed videos and actual games is different. what control scheme will they use if they don't have their own hardware? I doubt it's a simple as netflix setting up streaming games and people can suddenly buy a sony controller and connect it to their tv's and use it for gaming on netflix. So please give me a detailed summary of how Neflix will do this. Will it be kiddy shit games that don't take much power?.. like sidescroller minigames and shit that nintendo fans like you are into? That's no threat to MS then. What is necessary........Netflix will easily have the money and resources to do it. LOL, you act like this is where the "secret sauce" is. Microsoft hasn't even accomplished this part competently with xCloud. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Impossible 407 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 On 2021-07-14 at 9:06 PM, Spicalicious said: I'm pretty much done with streaming services. If you are a member at ipt you can use iptv.. get all released movies, events ufc and all that crap live tv in every country.. for $10 a month. HD extremely high quality. use vlc to stream Sounds so fun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JonDnD 2,607 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Looks like some Playstation games are coming to Netflix. Thats funny . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TLHBO 2,158 Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 Netflix movies all suck ass so I'm not sure I would expect anything good from them for gaming. Maybe a few of those loli rape sims for the Cuties crowd I think I'd rather use game pass than netflix and you all know how much I hate Microsoft Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 128 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 2021-07-16 at 8:54 PM, Mr. Impossible said: Sounds so fun. Sure is. Why pay $10 a month for netflix, another 10 for several other services. pay $70 for ppv events.. nah I'm good with just spending the $10 bucks to get it all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PuNKy_LeMmInG 172 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 amazon anybody Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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