A Netflix vice president has confirmed that the company has ambitions to offer cloud gaming services to its subscribers. At his TechCrunch Disrupt event on Tuesday, VP of Gaming Mike Verdu said: Said Netflix says it is “seriously considering offering cloud gaming.”In related news, further signaling Netflix’s serious intentions regarding the gaming industry, the company said Fifth A game studio led by former Executive Producer of Blizzard Entertainment (Overwatch), Chacko Sonny.
There have been talks of Netflix entering the gaming industry for some time, but its first venture was targeted at the mobile gaming space. They must have earned their trust from mobile gaming ventures, and it seems like cloud gaming will follow a similar modus operandi. It’s thoughtful,” Verdu explained to Disrupt. “The extension to the cloud is to reach other devices where people experience Netflix.” Additionally, the service hints at moving beyond casual gaming titles.
With Google Stadia’s recent demise, you may be wondering about the viability of another cloud gaming entrant. Thankfully, the issue of the struggle facing Stadia and Amazon Luna was raised at the Disrupt event.in Verdu response For example, Stadia was “technically successful,” but Google’s business model didn’t work.
Netflix has released 35 mobile games since the service launched, and has informed investors that it has 55 more in its pipeline. According to the streaming media giant, 14 of the new titles will come from the company’s four game studios. To bolster the game’s output and presumably scope, it announced that a fifth studio will soon be opening in Southern California.The unnamed new studio is the executive who worked on his hugely popular Overwatch franchise. He will be headed by producer Chaco He Sony. As for partners, Ubisoft recently announced that it is producing three of his mobile games for Netflix based on popular IPs such as Assassin’s Creed and Valiant Hearts.
