Netflix could expand its gaming service to TVs
Netflix is working on a way to bring its gaming service to TVs. The company stepped into the video game industry in Late 2021 with just a handful of games, but its portfolio has grown significantly since.
The streaming service, which has around 55 games on its service, plans to launch 40 new games on mobile devices this year. It is also partnering with several developers to bring over 70 more games to the platform. This proves its intention, the streaming service wants to expand its foothold in the gaming industry.
Netflix's games are available for Android phones and tablets, as well as on iPhones and iPads. They require the user to download and install the games on to their device. Of course, the games may only be accessed if you have an active Netflix subscription. Now, a lot of people may not prefer to play games on a small screen device such as a mobile phone, a television would offer a much better viewing experience. A large portion of Netflix subscribers are actually users who access the platform's contents on their TVs, including ones powered by Android and tvOS. So it makes sense for the company to bring the titles to big screens.
Netflix may let you use your iPhone as a controller to play games on TV
But, how would one play a game on a TV? If you have a PlayStation or an Xbox, you would use the console's gamepad. People who own neither won't have a controller to use with games. Netflix has a simple solution for this, it plans to allow users to use their iPhone as a controller for playing the games. That's according to some hidden code that was discovered by Steve Moser. It's not clear if this feature will support Android phones, but I can't think of a reason why it shouldn't.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that providing games to subscribers could be a good way for Netflix to retain customers, especially since subscription prices are more expensive than before. The company introduced an ad-supported tier a few months ago, allowing users to subscribe at a slightly lower price than the Basic plan. The move which was seen as a way to crackdown on password sharing, was criticized by many experts, who believed that the introduction of a lower-priced plan could be detrimental to Netflix's growth, however the company's strategy has worked well, it now has over 1 Million active users in the U.S. The surprising part was that most of these subscribers were new users.
The company wants to launch a more extensive cloud gaming service, that would allow users to stream games and play them on their devices without installing the games. This cloud-powered gaming service doesn't have a concrete timeframe yet, so it's unclear when it could come to fruition. Gurman contacted Netflix to elaborate on this, but says that the Los Gatos company declined to comment.
Netflix released Terra Nil, a serene city-builder on iOS and Android devices, and it has already drawn rave reviews.
Do you play Netflix games on your phone? Would you prefer playing them on a TV?
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.
When will you put an end to the mess in the comments?
Ghacks comments have been broken for too long. What article did you see this comment on? Reply below. If we get to 20 different articles we should all stop using the site in protest.
I posted this on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/] so please reply if you see it on a different article.
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Comment redirected me to [https://www.ghacks.net/2012/08/04/add-search-the-internet-to-the-windows-start-menu/] which seems to be the ‘real’ article it is attached to
Article Title: Reddit enforces user activity tracking on site to push advertising revenue
Article URL: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
No surprises here. This is just the beginning really. I cannot see a valid reason as to why anyone would continue to use the platform anymore when there are enough alternatives fill that void.
I’m not sure if there is a point in commenting given that comments seem to appear under random posts now, but I’ll try… this comment is for https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/28/reddit-enforces-user-activity-tracking-on-site-to-push-advertising-revenue/
My temporary “solution”, if you can call it that, is to use a VPN (Mullvad in my case) to sign up for and access Reddit via a European connection. I’m doing that with pretty much everything now, at least until the rest of the world catches up with GDPR. I don’t think GDPR is a magical privacy solution but it’s at least a first step.