Netflix continues to innovate on its cloud gaming platform, creating new video games that are innovative and will be different from the mobile games launched since 2021. These new games will be designed to be compatible with the Netflix experience on TVs and computers
The company has expanded this content on its currently offering platform 77 video games.
Last August, Netflix began testing this technology for Windows and Mac TVs and PCs Canada and the United Kingdomwith the beta version of the games Oxenfree and Molehews Mining Adventure, and in October the company expanded this beta testing to users United State.
Another piece of information that confirms all of the above, the company also launched the Netflix App Controller application for iPhone and iPad users, Which works like a video game console It can be used to play from a TV with a signed-in Netflix account.
In this context, the company intends to move forward with the development of new games specifically designed to be played on a TV or computer using a video game streaming platform. In this way, Netflix seeks to offer different types of titles that will vary depending on where they will be played. – Smartphone, TV or PC – thus providing better experiences to users.
“There’s an opportunity with the cloud to create a certain type of gaming experience that really suits Netflix on TV,” Netflix’s director of third-party games, Leanne Loombe, told The Verge.
Loombe also announced that a “platform change” will happen when Netflix expands the cloud service to more regions and starts offering more games. In this regard, he indicated that these matches will be “Creatively different from mobile games” Which the company is currently developing.
In other words, games developed for the cloud (PC and TV), They will have mechanics where control will necessarily be needed to playr, and cannot be implemented in the same way as it is implemented on a touch screen such as a cell phone.
They also stated that there will be games that will be released for all devices, such as those that will be released exclusively for certain devices and will be promoted thanks to the help of the algorithm depending on the device the user is using. Connected.
We still don’t have a confirmed launch date for the Netflix Cloud video game service, but given the beta phase they’ve been through in other markets like the US and Canada, we can assume it will. It will arrive sometime in 2024.
According to Apptopia until September 2023 Netflix games have been downloaded 70.5 million times.
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