• Knitwear@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Bet they get cancelled after the first boss heyyyoooo (drum drum cymbal sting)

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    7 months ago

    Seeing how they treat their own shows, cancelling them willy nilly. Really doesn’t give me hope in them getting game series going.

    I dont wanna go and get attached to a game just for Netflix to completely drop support

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      7 months ago

      I was about to say, this sounds like a classic tax dodge. Start developing a ton of games, drop 8 of them come next year to make the charts look nicer for the shareholders, maybe release 1 game 3 years down the line.

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    Are these 10 mobile games? Last I went on Netflix all they had was mobile garbage.

    edit: looks like GTA is on there so maybe there will be something decent

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    Wait, what?! 😂 Okay, so is this gonna be a cloud based thing, because how stadia was so successfull? Or are these going to be downloaded apps? Or just stand alone choose your own adventure like black mirrors bandersnatch?

    On its website, Netflix says by the end of the year it’ll have 86 games for subscribers to play. This includes the recently announced Grand Theft Auto Trilogy - Definitive Edition off the back of the first trailer for GTA 6.

    Or are they gonna mail me a disc for gta again? Lol I’m genuinely so confused what this will eventually look like.

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      7 months ago

      Stadia was successful. Everyone just hated on it for some reason. Didn’t get the playerbase so it was sold off. Was a fantastic service and I curse google daily

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          7 months ago

          Wasn’t successful in playerbase no. Was in terms of a cloud gaming system. It worked. All I neeee it to do. Didn’t hit googles lofty ideals though.

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            7 months ago

            It’s fine if it actually worked perfectly for you, but “just working” isn’t exactly a measure of success.

            They still needed the playerbase to actually use it, and devs to actually make games for it. Which they got very little of both. So it wasn’t successful.

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              It kinda is though. In terms of what others attacked it for. All the attack videos and yet I played it via VPN in a non supported country. Google fucked up by launching in America. A place with plenty cash and a spoiled player base. Where it would win would be poor countries. Just look at down votes ? For saying a device worked as intended. Tells you all you need to know.

              Internet infrastructure was a big issue and games were mostly Ubisoft but still. What a game changer. Then I moved to GeForce and haven’t looked back.

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                I think you’re saying it showed it could work. Where others are saying a success on the sense of a viable product that can make enough money to operate and, ideally, to be profitable.

                And unfortunately when it comes to a service that requires servers, bandwidth and staff to maintain and operate it then there has to be a certain threshold of users to make it profitable or else it is doomed to fail.

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                  But it did I work. I used it. Many other used it. It was cloud gaming. What hadn’t been accomplished before.

                  That was an issue. However many companies aren’t profitable in their first few years. The toll out was a complete mess. Also as stated they chose wrong. I get why they picked murica. Infrastructure was always going to be an issue but that’s not where you get people looking to save money and not buy a console. Third world would have been the sweet spot. A rig they can play red dead for pennies.

                  They opened it up to phones and with Enough bandwidth you could play games you’d never manage before.

                  Yes but long run. Nobody thought Google was going to saunter in and beat the big Bois. Takes time to build a playerbase get the product actually working and improve it. None of that happened in first year.