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Netflix is no longer relying exclusively on third-party teams to bolster its game catalog.
The streaming giant is forming an in-house game studio in Helsinki, Finland to create "world-class" original games without ads or in-app purchases.
While it's too soon for details of the games themselves, Zynga and EA alumnus Marko Lastikka will serve as director.

 

[wvnative]

 

[jaysius]

Excellent, I want a high quality Ozark game now.

Maybe we could get a few con artist games based on their docs.

If we don't get a Narcos El Chapo game then it'd be criminal.

 

[GymWolf]

 

[Ezekiel_]

Expand on branching narrative movies and you're golden.

See Bandersnatch

 

[Deft Beck]

Will they be traditional video games or moreso interactive cinema like Bandersnatch?

 

[Flutta]

 

[Nankatsu]

Hope they sign Volition.

Their latest hit goes very well with Netflix standards.

 

[AJUMP23]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/netflix-found-a-way-to-lose-more-money.1641970/

 

[Magic Carpet]

Flixstation? Netbox?

 

[Ozriel]

‘World class’ doesn’t necessarily mean AAA. Games like Hades, Hollow Knight and Ori are world class but certainly not AAA.

 

[IFireflyl]

No, they aren't.

 

[nocsi]

Feeding trough

 

[DeepEnigma]

The real Netflix of Gaming™. Literally.

This will be bust in 18 months shall we say? Let's get a money line going.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

"Let's have a competition"

 

[jufonuk]

I look forward to the series adaptation of the game they adapted from a movie.

Also I wonder how many game a they cancel ?

For what platform they coming on ?

 

[Zok310]

Watch fools pay $30 a month between this and GP to play 3 games a year

 

[Hayabusabruh]

They're just going to make race swapped versions of existing games. Super Barrio brothas.

 

[kadab]

 

[SmokedMeat]

We’re laughing but I think Netflix could find success doing games like The Quarry.

I think they could turn their audience on to those types of games better than the consoles.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I get what they're thinking, but this is a mistake.

It's a highly competitive market already for the AAA space. It's boom or bust for how much these costs, and they're already facing issues with how much they're spending on largely unsuccessful movies.

This is not the way to diversify your portfolio. If they were serious they should have bought an existing AAA studio.

Their IP aren't going to translate extremely easily to the video game space and the time it takes to develop a AAA game may not coincide with the popularity of a tv series either.

This is an example of the good idea fairy visiting an exec and whispering into their ear. They'll be out of this space after 1 or 2 releases.

 

[rodrigolfp]

‘World class’ doesn’t necessarily mean AAA. Games like Hades, Hollow Knight and Ori are world class but certainly not AAA.

And games like Candy Crush too.

 

[clarky]

LOL they cant even make a decent film never mind a videogame.

 

[SSfox]

Like Stadia did?

 

[Ozriel]

I get what they're thinking, but this is a mistake.

It's a highly competitive market already for the AAA space. It's boom or bust for how much these costs, and they're already facing issues with how much they're spending on largely unsuccessful movies.

This is not the way to diversify your portfolio. If they were serious they should have bought an existing AAA studio.

Their IP aren't going to translate extremely easily to the video game space and the time it takes to develop a AAA game may not coincide with the popularity of a tv series either.

This is an example of the good idea fairy visiting an exec and whispering into their ear. They'll be out of this space after 1 or 2 releases.

You got suckered by the thread title. There’s no indication they’re trying to make an AAA game.

 

[KungFucius]

What are they going to do, put games out there in a format that allows them to cancel the game before you can finish it?

 

[Crayon]

I'm hoping for a wild wild country game that plays a little like populous.

 

[Flakster99]

It begins...

 

[captainnapalm]

You know what we did for Resident Evil on TV? We can do that in games now.

 

[pasterpl]

Watch fools pay $30 a month between this and GP to play 3 games a year

Are you suggesting that they are only 3 games a year published on gamepass?

 

[RyRy93]

Solid streaming tech, popular IPs and a large install base, why are people so quick to write them off?

 

[The_Mike]

Netflix makes the best games, 10 /10 even before release.
- Resetera

 

[Inuteu]

finaly I will be able to play with a fat black transgender with purple hair

 

[Kacho]

Waste of time and money

 

[ShirAhava]

Finally some real movie games!

sony can kiss its business goodbye

 

[JimmyF]

They should have spent it on coke and hookers.

 

[HoofHearted]

 

[RAIDEN1]

Just make a decent Cobra Kai based on the greatness that was Streets of Rage 4

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Thirty7ven]

Good for them, it’s nice to see some companies still believe in building from scratch.