Netflix’s entrance into the online game trade has been fairly regular, you may say, in terms of large firm’s from outdoors of video games attempting their hand in video video games for the primary time.
Which is to say, Netflix clearly had a great variety of excessive hopes, buying Evening Faculty Studio, the crew recognized for the wonderful Oxenfree video games, again in 2021, and likewise kicking up an inside studio referred to as Staff Blue.
The previous crew suffered layoffs earlier this yr, whereas the latter was completely shut down in direction of the top of final yr. In different phrases, Netflix found you possibly can’t generate profits in video games immediately, and that it takes extra of an funding than it most likely thought it will.
And but, the pinnacle of Netflix’s video games division, Alain Tascan, is making a daring prediction about the way forward for video video games. Whereas talking on Chris Dring’s new podcast and commerce publication The Recreation Enterprise, Tascan talked about how he believes that console video games aren’t going to be a part of the online game trade’s future.
“[When it comes to] console, we began to have a look at the long run the place the platform is agnostic. Have a look at the youthful technology. Are eight year-olds and ten year-olds dreaming of proudly owning a PlayStation 6? I’m not certain. They’re desirous to work together with any digital display, no matter it’s, wherever it’s, even within the automotive. With console you’re excited about excessive definition, you’re excited about the controller […] If we have a look at this older mannequin, I believe it should restrain us.”
Tascan had solely simply joined Netflix when Staff Blue was shuttered, and joined after the aforementioned layoffs, so he can’t actually be blamed for the corporate’s fumbles up thus far. He brings with him three a long time of expertise working at Epic Video games, so his remark right here isn’t completely uninformed.
He’s not flawed that the youngest avid gamers at present are extra centered on simply desirous to play their favorite video games, it doesn’t matter what platform that’s. Tascan noticed that first hand with Fortnite. For Netflix to start out making waves within the trade with a youthful crowd, it will have to play by the brand new guidelines of recent gaming.
Console video games may not be the entire way forward for the video video games trade, nevertheless it’s uncertain that we’ll actually see console video games go away anytime quickly.
Supply – [The Game Business]