Netflix Starts Testing Game Streaming on Select Devices, Smart TVs and Desktop Browsers (engadget.com) 13
Netflix is officially bringing its games to more devices. So far, the company's impressive library of games has only been available on iOS and Android. Now, though, Netflix is starting to use its streaming tech to publicly test its titles on TVs and computers. From a report: "Our goal has always been to have a game for everyone, and we are working hard to meet members where they are with an accessible, smooth and ubiquitous service," Mike Verdu, Netflix's vice-president of games, wrote in a blog post. "Today, we're taking the first step in making games playable on every device where our members enjoy Netflix." The test appears to be very limited for now. Just two games will be available at the outset: Oxenfree. The beta is only open to a small number of Netflix subscribers in the UK and Canada on Amazon Fire TV streaming media players, Chromecast with Google TV, LG TVs, NVIDIA Shield TV, Roku devices and TVs, Samsung smart TVs and Walmart ONN. The company will add support for more devices later.
How many game streaming companies have failed? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I used the XBox Game Pass streaming on a recent trip that I took and I was very impressed with it. Honestly, I'd recommend it to someone who wants to play an XBox exclusive but doesn't want to pay for an XBox (e.g. Starfield).
Now your point on whether or not it can make money, I don't know. I don't know what the costs are to provide the service, especially for AAA games.
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Ultimately of course it can, the failures to me were to opinionated about how the service was provided and what games would be available, when you consider the two ways of how to build the tallest building in town, 1. build the tallest building, 2. build an average building the knock everyone elses down. I think the failures can all be traced back to trying to do #2
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... and have any succeeded? Netflix is going to burn a bunch of cash for nothing.
Netflix exec: Hey, you know that thing that Microsoft, Google and Nvidia failed to do... lets try it. I'm sure we still know some VCs too coked up to question it.
Existing game libraries? (Score:3)
What's the other game? (Score:1)
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Is Molehew a new crypto currency? /s
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I trying to figure out what olly olly oxenfree is, so started to do a search and this came up in DDG's autocomplete: oli4k5yhjo45y
Totally bizarre results that change on each reload, showing various cities near your IP and sometimes other shit like batteries. If I start removing digits the cities get further and further away. I think I broke the matrix.
Browser"s" (Score:2)
"The games will also be available to try on Netflix's website via supported desktop browsers in the next few weeks."
Let me guess, those "browsers" is really only one browser- "Chrom*". Perhaps I will be surprised and they support all three browsers, Chrom*, Firefox, and Safari.
the company's impressive library of games are crap (Score:2)
Not as ridiculous as I thought (Score:2)
As first I shared the general consensus that this was a terrible idea... but now I'm not so sure.
Everyone is thinking of this like it's a bunch of crappy browser games, but WebGL is getting pretty decent [wikipedia.org].
What if the real vision is an entry level gaming console and Steam competitor?
Add a decent selection of "free" (paid for by your subscription) games and I can see that appealing to a lot of people.