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Netflix games boss says consoles not the future as streamer looks to phone-controlled party games


After Netflix's tentative first few years in games - which has seen it grow its mobile library, acquire studios, and da…

Tascan also seems unconvinced classic console-style games have much value for Netflix, which might go someway to explaining why the streaming service recently culled staff at respected Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, and why it closed its high-profile triple-A studio before it could release a game last year. "We need to push the vision more than anything else and try to disrupt," he continued, "because I believe the threshold you need to hit for people to be entertained by games is very high... "If you look at our two co-CEOs... and look at where Netflix was 10 years ago in terms of their core business... they know the path of being stubborn, hard-working, innovating, having a vision and going after it...

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