Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Netflix has games?”.
Netflix has games, yeah games included with every netflix subscription. Is netflix games a handful of it’s a little bit more than a handful. To be honest, a handful of games are released as individual mobile apps on ios. Oh, i see a full catalog of 24. Titles is in the netflix app there’s, no ads no fees and no in-app purchases. These are meant to serve as a sort of bridge to cross. While waiting for the next installment of a running series, they don’t want you to cancel your subscription between seasons of stranger things: okay, um, stranger, things has a couple games based around it. The queen’s gambit has an upcoming chess game: okay, okay, uh! Well, i mean you know it’s about: it’s like a chess thing right, the the queen’s game. No, i know, but is it just chess or like oh about that? Is there more to it like? Is it maybe there’s a campaign and like they have voice actors? That’D? Be kind of actually because it’s cool it’d actually be totally down yeah, that’s actually really good. Like that’s. That’S, i think, that’s why that’s what they’re doing that way it’s like if they do something more than just a generic chess game, it could be really interesting, but we’ll see um, there’s also some decent indie games that were ported to mobile, like into the breach.
I had no idea that’s from the developers of ftl uh moonlighter. They apparently paid 72 million dollars for finnish developer next games. Netflix says the catalog will grow to 50 titles before the end of the year and then here’s where things get a little interesting, because i have potentially a non-normal take on this. But it says the only problem is less than one percent of their users are playing them.
They average 1.7 million daily users. I mean that’s a lot of people, but yes, yes, i think this is saying for the games, but they have 221 million subscribers right. So that’s man, if you had like let’s say you run a store, you run a supermarket and you realize that you have an entire department that only one percent of people even like walk into yeah yeah – that’s pretty bad see, i think so. But then it’s also like this super weird tertiary thing: yeah, it’s like if the supermarket randomly offered go-karts and only one percent of the customers used go-karts and they were pissed.
It’S funny you used go-karts as an example, because i was like where’s he going with this. What’S he going to come up with that, they don’t have a supervisor. I don’t know i mean sears became known for having a photography studio in it. How random is that, but there’s mcdonald’s and half the walmart i mean the the the mega corporation section is real at this point like what what could they know? I wonder about that. It wouldn’t surprise me: we got west edmonton, mall luke, there’s literally a water park in a mall in canada. Ball is actually awesome on this timeline said, which mall is fantastic.
I haven’t been there in a super long time, but i was there for a provincial hockey tournament and the mall was was uh. It was pretty sweet, yeah um, but yeah. I don’t know like yes, one percent of the users is low, but 1.7 million daily active users for a series of uh 24 games. Yeah.
I guess that’s not that many games, it’s pretty good, i think yeah, that’s actually i mean unless it’s like bejeweled like what are you expecting like every single person that watches netflix to want to play the stream yeah, it’s a lot of ducks to align yeah, and It’S 1.7 million daily users, a lot of stars to align sorry so, okay, again, though i don’t know, this is worded kind of oddly they average 1.7 million daily users – 221 million. Subscribers, though, is that saying that netflix averages 1.7 million daily users or that the games do it doesn’t like it’s it’s worded, i’m really not 100 certain. What’S going on there um, but either way like one one percent of the. I actually don’t think there’s as much of a crossover as they would think between people that would want to play games on netflix, yeah, um and people like so maybe this is just one of those things where an executive was like yeah gaming.
Like gaming, we got to get a piece of that. I mean netflix, wouldn’t be the first to try. That strategy turns out gaming’s like really tough yeah like i i don’t. I don’t think um.
That would not be my go-to like as a gamer. If i had a netflix description, which i don’t i don’t think i would bother checking it out, i think this is more of like you were kind of positioning uh like executive decision problem or not a problem. I think it’s one of the two or maybe yeah. Maybe it’s not a problem and what they need to do is double down and have more than 24 games, that or or maybe like the way that they present it to users. It should be more different whatever, but i think it’s going to be extremely hard to get people to subscribe to netflix for their games right, and i think that’s the only way that this solves the problem that they’re trying to get it to solve right. Um, because you would, you would have to you’d, have to be a destination. Yes, it’s that simple and you’d have to want to retain your subscription. If there’s no content that you wanted to watch for this to actually function so like is there enough games? That’S another one like how big are these games like if i’m just going to beat this stranger things game in a week? It doesn’t tide me between seasons, it’s going to have to hold for what, like a year or two years and like you, look at how much apple’s invested in apple arcade, they have way more titles, and even with that, there’s only one that has someone who’s, not Already on the service scrolling, this there’s only one that i’ve gone.
Oh, that’s a killer, app yeah! I should consider apple arcade um and that’s that um. I think it’s called fantasia. I still haven’t played it because i don’t have apple arcade and i don’t want any cloud saves or anything stuck in icloud. So i’ll just wait for it to come to another platform, where i can control my save data but um but yeah i mean i like.
I even though we talked about the tech industry a lot, i had no idea that netflix was like that. This was a major push at least yeah. Like i i remember hearing right now. I haven’t heard about it. Yeah, i didn’t know it was like out and stuff like that people keep on saying they have into the breach yeah and into the breach is a short but very replayable game. I don’t think it’s going to keep someone interested for two years yeah. Oh, my sorry um it’s i, i think a lot of people don’t like subscriptions for things. Um, there’s gaming subscriptions out there like how how much is the let’s go with a company that is not actually super positive in the news lately um other than us ubisoft subscription, wow, so um. How many more times are you gon na? Are you gon na? Take those pockets too many, not too many yeah by all means come at me. Bro come at me, bro! Oh man, ubisoft just asked me to verify my age to subscribe. To continue – and i was sad uh okay, so ubisoft plus is 20 bucks a month enjoy 100 plus games on pc or select titles across your devices from the cloud, etc. That’S a lot of games from a huge studio.
These are very expansive games, etc, etc, etc. It’S 19 or 20 bucks a month. How much is netflix netflix subscription cost 20 bucks a month, so you’re paying the same amount. I didn’t prep this.
I didn’t know that you’re paying the same amount. If you don’t have anything to watch right now on netflix, you have to make that subscription the same value of at least that that uh, you play plus thing someone’s, saying microsoft. Game pass, which we actually know is a really good value. We dog on microsoft all the time but game pass is like crazy um. It’S 16 bucks a month so like really man like trying to make it so that it’s worth it while having nothing to watch, is going to be insanely hard and require probably like multiple studios like this is. This is a big deal thing. I don’t think it’s really going to tide people over, i don’t think anyone’s going to want to cancel their netflix subscription and be like. I want to play that game, though, maybe i don’t think it’s going to be too common.
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