Netflix Considering to Launch Its Own Cloud Gaming Service - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 October 2022 / 2,341 Views
Netflix vice president of games Mike Verdu during the TechCrunch Disrupt event revealed the company is considering to launch its own cloud gaming service.
"We’re very seriously exploring a cloud gaming offering so we can reach members on TVs and PCs," Verdu said (via a transcription by VideoGamesChronicle). "We’ll approach this the same way we did with mobile, which is start small, be humble, be thoughtful, and then build out. But it is a step we think we should take to meet members where they are, on the devices where they consume Netflix."
Verdu was asked how Netflix would keep its own cloud gaming service from being a failure like Google Stadia and he stated, "Stadia was a technical success. It was fun to play games on Stadia. It had some issues with the business model. I look at the technology and say it worked.
"For us, delivering games to your TV and your PC, it’s value add. We’re not asking you to subscribe as a console replacement, so it’s a completely different business model. The hope is over time that it just becomes this very natural to play games wherever you are."
He added, "I won’t point to mistakes because that seems unfair, because [Google] took a really bold gamble. The thing that I thought was amazing about Stadia and other platforms is the kind of experiences that they enabled that you really can’t have any other way. And they saw that and started doing some work on an internal studio but it just takes a long time to get it right."
This is still early days of Netflix looking into its own cloud gaming service and it is possible they decide against it.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Insert Ah shit, here we go again meme.
Hope it goes as good as Stadia
Enter Stadia 2.
If their existing mobile games selection is anything to go by, I'm not expecting much from this.
Fuck off netflix
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The technology just isn't there for anything beyond either very basic games or games that are either slow paced or turn based. I tried a couple of streaming games on XCloud out of curiosity, and they were basically unplayable. And, my internet is pretty fast, and I was wired.
Your experience is an outlier then. The general consensus is that game streaming works very well.
I have mediocre internet speeds (150mbps down), and I was able to effectively play Destiny 2 via wifi, even a couple of years ago. More recently, I have played all kinds of games and had no problems whatsoever. I have not tried to play PVP in an FPS, So I can't say with confidence that streaming works well enough for that. But, it works well enough for everything else, including racing games, that I've tried. This includes over a 4G mobile connection, though my experience with that is much more limited.
I don't have any hard data. I'm not sure that any exists, possibly outside of Microsoft, Google and the other tech giants. But, my experience is in line with most of the anecdotal stuff that I've seen on here and other places. I also have a good friend that does about half of his gaming via streaming. He's the one that convinced me that I should stop avoiding it. And he was right.
If you want to look at something empirical, then we can point to the number of people engaging in game streaming is apparently growing.
The key right now seems to be how close to a data centre you are. You could have great internet, but if the latency between you and the data centre is too high then it's not going to be a great experience.
Xcloud works great for me, but I live in south-west Canada and I'm a stone's throw away from Microsoft's headquarters, so I'm probably very close to a Microsoft data centre. :)
You both are likely right depending on region. Here in Brazil my internet have been so lousy that it would probably suck, but from others I heard in Brazil it is stable enough but not great (probably not enough servers at the moment).
Possibly some genres may not be adequate for streaming, but for a lot of games it is likely fine, even Switch had some cloud only games in Japan and haven't heard bad things here in vgc.
I enjoyed Trivia Quest on Netflix.
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