Other Netflix Planning To Go Into Video Games

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read from Bloomberg and Siliconera:

Netflix hired a former Electronic Arts and Oculus executive as Vice President of Game Development to spearhead the effort. The company will include video games “within the next year,” which means people might see them by 2022.

The newly-hired Vice President of Game Development Mike Verdu previously served as Vice President of VR/AR at Facebook, Senior Vice President at EA Mobile, and CCO at Zynga. Verdu will report to Chief Operating Officer Gregory Peters. Netflix already posted other job openings looking for people to head its interactive” division.

 

[Ash]

Stadia V2, here we go! Can't see it being too successful especially when Netflix has no prior experience in the gaming market.
Hopefully, this won't have an impact on the Netflix prices for us.

 

[Revolved101's iconRevolved101]

As they will include it in the Netflix package something similar to what Amazon does with Prime?

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Depends how serious they are about this. I'll wait for more details before judging.

 

[froggyboy604]

It would be cool to have Netflix games for Netflix exclusive TV, animation, and movie series. I wonder would any of Netflix original games would be sold or free to play on Steam, Microsoft Store, and consoles.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Looks like they plan on offering mobile games first, interesting to say the least.

 

[froggyboy604]

I wonder what type of mobile games Netflix will make. Hopefully, there would be more intensive games like mobile shooter games, action, and RPG games instead of mostly casual mobile games like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and Flappy birds.

 

[Jason]

Hmm Netflix is planning for another big hit, wondering if they charge separately for this or current subscription amount will be increased slightly and it will be included.

 

[Ash]

As they will include it in the Netflix package something similar to what Amazon does with Prime?

They might charge more for it but then offer it as an added bonus for members with the highest tier. That would make the most sense to me.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think Netflix should make some of their exclusive Netflix games free to play like Fortnite, or regular paid downloadable games like Minecraft where you only need to pay once to play the game for as long as you want.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm sure they want to use the gaming as a means of drawing more people in before jacking up the price.

 

[froggyboy604]

Hopefully, Netflix mobile games won't have a lot of expensive paid DLC, and in-game purchases like paid characters and items which can cost many dollars to buy.

I bet, some Netflix games maybe used to advertise Netflix TV and movie series like how Fast and Furious release mobile games to promote the Fast and Furious movie series.