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Netflix Now Testing Games on TVs, Macs and PCs
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This announcement is about testing cloud gaming with the Oxenfree game.
Netflix finally streams video games, too
The future of Netflix games may be televised.
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For one, Netflix doesn’t have to anyone to buy into the platform. They’ve already got a huge userbase, and the mobile & cloud games are just added value to keep the subscribers happy. (and less likely to unsub)
Netflix also knows better than any tech company how to stream content worldwide to every random device with a Netflix app.
Netflix Games (the current mobile game library) is already a great competitor for Arcade, and I’m continuing to enjoy both on my iPad.
I enjoy the focus on the single game streaming service that shut down, and the willful ignoring of the rest. still. operating. normally.
Game streaming may not be the ideal option for all game types, or all gamers. Totally OK, people should play the games they want using the delivery mechanisms that make the most sense to them. But Apple's artificial roadblocks for access to game streaming on iOS are protectionist nonsense and bear no relation to the viability of game streaming as a technology that some may want to explore.
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As someone else has pointed out, there's plenty of other game streaming services still active.
Also while both services have "game" and "streaming", that's where the similarities end.
Stadia had a unique vision - but included in that vision was a system where you:
* Pay for a subscription service
* Pay to buy the games
* Pay for a unique controller
* When you bought the game, you only had it available on the Stadia service (e.g. not Steam)
* 3rd parties would have to make a Stadia version of their games
That's too many ways to part with your money, and some games were just not a good match for streaming (e.g. fighting games, twitchy shootes, super high detail games like Red Dead Redemption 2). Stadia wanted to be on par with Playstation or XBox which was very challenging task.
Netflix's idea is more obtainable:
* We will provide some streaming games as part of your TV/movie streaming service, and those games will be simple games suitable for streaming.
That thing looks like it’s made for alien hands to control a spaceship.
Problem is Apple can’t just buy a game company and expect it to work. Apple fundamentally does not understand gaming. They accidentally stumbled on a gold mine in the form of all the Skinner Boxes on the App Store.
They think they are already successful in gaming because the App Store makes more than a billion dollars from games. And by the standards they clearly have set for themselves these days, they’re right.
Xbox gamepass is quite decent regarding that. Unfortunately this also won’t work on apple tv
