Netflix Datamine Could Suggest a Partnership With PlayStation

Earlier this week, Netflix announced that it is planning an expansion into video games and has hired a former EA and Facebook executive to lead the effort. Now, according to a recent datamine, the streaming giant may be forming a partnership with PlayStation to bring some of the biggest PlayStation brands to Netflix. IGN reports: Reported by VGC, dataminer Steve Moser appears to have uncovered PlayStation brand imagery and content in the Netflix app code. Moser shared the information via a tweet, including images of both the Ghost of Tsushima box art and some PS5 controllers. It's unclear exactly what this means for Netflix, but if there is a burgeoning partnership between Netflix and PlayStation, it could see Ghost of Tsushima content come to the streaming service in some form.

Moser suggests that the gaming section of Netflix currently has the codename 'Shark', and the placement of PlayStation IP within that suggests a collaborative approach. This wouldn't be the first major deal between Sony and Netflix, as the two companies agreed a deal earlier this year that means movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment will come to Netflix first after their theatrical run. [...] Given that many first-party PlayStation games are narrative-driven adventure games with a focus on cinematic stories, it makes sense to try and adopt games like Ghost of Tsushima and the last of us into movies and TV. Whilst PlayStation already has a games streaming service, PlayStation Now, it could also potentially be looking to push gaming content beyond the PlayStation console ecosystem, as Microsoft has done with Xbox Game Pass.

Sony installed root-kits on paying customer's...

[ffkom]

... hardware, never forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

I have not spent a cent on any Sony product ever since, and neither should you.

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[drinkypoo]

With that said, it's hard not to use them at all. Much of the stuff they make is very good quality.

As far as I know the only Sony product I am using is imaging sensors... located in other people's cameras. I can live with that because all the Sonyness has been abstracted away for me.

What's sad is that I remember when Sony was a really good brand, with high quality products. Never audiophile-grade or whatever, but very well made, reliable, sounded just fine. I had one of their older stereos for a very long time which worked great until I abused it.

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[rtb61]

Actually for Netflix is it far more complicated, they need to take a far more careful approach to gaming. They want to do massively multiplayer coop online but they want to use zero existing licensing content and create their own from scratch. The idea being you on purpose create games, from which you create other content, as in movies and TV series.

User created content should be a big focus, stories and art to expand the universe you create and you can publish for them. A story into chapter of the game, c

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