Whether netflix is mainly known for offering a catalog of several series, films, animations of all kinds, it also offers since last year a somewhat special section dedicated to video games. Yes but here it is, if it seemed like a good idea on paper, it seems that there are not really many Netflix subscribers who have ventured into this gaming section. A flop not really surprising?
The gaming section of Netflix not really attractive?
It was indeed last November that the giant wanted to launch into the marvelous adventure that is the video game with to begin with, 5 titles : Stranger Things: The Game, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Card Blast, Teeter Up and Shooting Hoops. Since then, no less than 20 games have been added to the list, with mobile games that users can of course download to their phone via the Netflix application, and among the playlist, small nuggets like Into The Breach .
But who really plays it? Are there any users who have taken the plunge? Well unfortunately it would seem not, at least not very much. According to a CNBC reportthe society Apptopia which is responsible for analyzing the applications said that less than one percent of Netflix subscribers play games on the platform. If said games have been downloaded 23 million times for an average audience of 1.7 million users, this remains very low compared to the total number of subscribers which is 221 million users.
Despite this, Greg Peter, who is Netflix’s chief operating officer, said he wanted to experiment with certain avenues, including gaming, and the catalog of video games should then double by the end of the year.. But is it really necessary? Isn’t this money wasted a little unnecessarily? Knowing that in addition to this, the company must face a serious problem: the loss of many subscribers with a figure of 1.2 million loss, which is not nothing. Along with that, we also learn that the company had to cut jobs and cancel projects…
Whatever, only the future will allow us to say whether or not it was a good idea to enlarge this famous catalog of video games, even if we already have our little idea. As a reminder, the platform will offer from September 23 The Chronicles of Arceus coming straight from the Pokémon universe. If some details are still missing, especially on the format (series or animated film), we will know very soon about the latter in the days to come.